Comments on: Paradise lost

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:12:25 +0000

FWIW, there are some GoFundMe sites etc for Paradise and other CA towns.
You can hit Gerard’s tip jar directly at his blog.

http://americandigest.org/wp/aint-too-proud-to-beg-paypal-donation-information-and-mailing-address/

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 11:42:42 +0000

Casualty reports from Paradise are coming in. Twenty-three dead in the area. There may be more. Lord have mercy.

By: OBloodyHell

OBloodyHell — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 07:19:59 +0000

By the way, you suggest that Gerard should have left California two decades ago. You’re probably not aware that he’s only very recently moved back there in order to assist his extremely elderly mother who still lives there. He’s lived most of his life in other places, actually. He’s written about this on his blog.

Ah. Sorry to hear that. But my response to that would still be, “bring mother to home, not go to mother”. I know it’s not always that simple, but I would take my mother hostage and kidnap her to where-ever, before you could get me to live in Cali.

Seriously, it truly is a disaster of multiple kinds and varieties just waiting to happen, and it’s all the government — not just local but state as well, since LA and SF dominate the state politics just as ridiculously incorrectly as NYCs dominates the otherwise fairly moderate NY state’s.

There seems to be something brain-killing in big cities. It’s like living there takes over your brain and replaces it with an idiot hive-mind. No, not all, but far too many.

The Newly Elected Ms Occasional-Cortex is a prime example. She supposedly has an economics degree. Yet she can’t even plan her finances for a simple move to another state, despite having a guaranteed income of nearly 200k in three months, when her job starts. Her ignorance of all things financial, economic, and business demonstrates two things:

1 – She was a diversity graduate.
2 – There’s a damned good reason despite the degree that she was working as a bartender.

:-/

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 01:02:07 +0000

Update at Gerard’s blog:
http://americandigest.org/wp/ashes-ashes-we-all-fall-down/

By: Eric Wilner

Eric Wilner — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 23:03:03 +0000

Update to my first comment: my friend just checked in; she and her dog are safe at her brother’s place in Reno, having made an expeditious exit and thus beaten the traffic and chaos.

By: neo

neo — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 19:50:07 +0000

theduchessofkitty: This is the "donate" button at his blog, and I assume that will have the same effect.

By: theduchessofkitty

theduchessofkitty — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 19:03:55 +0000

Neo,

I don’t know if you can, but I believe someone must start a GoFundMe page for Gerald.

By: theduchessofkitty

theduchessofkitty — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 19:01:59 +0000

OBloodyHell,

Gerald can’t leave California even if he wanted to. His mom lives there. She’s 104. He’s staying with her right now.

By: brdavis9

brdavis9 — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 18:36:28 +0000

MikeK on November 10, 2018 at 9:13 am at 9:13 am said: I lived in California for 60 years and my wife is third generation but we got out two years ago.

This closely mirrors my history, actually. I was born in Cali' (second gen) – about 45 miles south of the fire area, actually ...in Marysville ...which is one reason I've clients in the area – and lived in Cali' until I was 60, too. We left 6 years ago (I usually say "escaped") though.

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 16:35:02 +0000

My wife & I live hundreds of miles from any of the fires. I spent most of yesterday outdoors enjoying the excellent weather. When I went to bed a bit early last night, I moved from downstairs where the windows were closed to upstairs where the windows are all open.

Bam, the room had a strong odor of smoke, and worse yet the odor had burnt plastics and rubber components. I ran outside to check the skyline, as our community is heavily wooded. I don’t ever recall smoke carrying that far in the past.