BTW, if you hear anybody on the news say that you’re seeing atypical weather from southern California, they’re idiots. Not having Santa Anas this time of year in southern California is what would be atypical.

Stay safe, and get your furnace cleaned.

Maybe for the old folks; but ask anyone young, with no old family attachments, and who’s live here less than 5 years (moved in since the housing boom where we stand no chance of ever owning a home if we actually DO have a family and aren’t independently wealthy).

Time to go see if I can get transferred to CO…

At least, that’s what I was told growing up in the 60s.

I’m a little surprised not that people live in the hills that burn, but that people don’t put in some sort of cleared buffer between the neighborhoods and the chapparal.

But like you said who knows.

There’s always the first time.

During our fires last year there was one that touched off a house in the Spring Valley community south-east of where I’m at now. One truck showed up and put it out. One truck, which was all they had in reserve.

The wind was turning, the humidity rising, the temperatures falling. People in the neighborhood turned out and poured what water they could through garden houses on the flames. We had just enough to put that house fire out and keep the wild fire that sparked it from spreading. We got lucky.

We almost lost all outside electricity. Our roads and highways were nearly cut off. We were facing the possibility of a massive urban fire marching down Spring Valley to the harbor and spreading from there.

Now it’s the LA Basin’s turn. You talk about how fires just don’t spread into urban areas in the LA Basin. That’s the thing, it’s not that the fires might spread into the urban areas, it’s that the urban areas have spread into where the fires happen. You get inland temperatures of 100 degrees, sixty mile an hour easterlies coming down off the hills, and 10% relative humidity, damn right you’re going to see fires blazing where they’ve never blazed before.

In short Promoguy, the past aint never been prologue to the future, it aint even a vague hint.

By the mid 80’s, ALL those areas were ruined. There is nothing quaint anymore, just seedy and trashy, cars on blocks in the driveways, brown-weed, front lawns, rotted porches, multiple families living in the house and the garage.

Having recently retired, I would have loved to be able to trade down to one those homes—no HOA fees, no Mello-Roos(gotta be from California to know what that is)and low utility bills. Actually, because there are no HOA fees and hence no CC&Rs to possible modify the decay, contributes to the problem.

With increased illegal immigration, other areas will eventually go barrio, too.

Once in a while I can do 120 on the NY State Thruway. It’s not the same. Actually I used to get up to 90 on occasion on Wilshire between Westwood and B.H. I live to break speed limits.