It’s the one-year anniversary of the Camp Fire…
…that destroyed the town of Paradise:
The Town of Paradise will hold several events Friday to honor the people who lost their lives.
At 11:08 a.m., 85 seconds of silence will be held for the 85 lives lost. That’s for anyone to participate in no matter where you are at.
At noon there will be the groundbreaking of Hope Plaza off the Skyway.
Later in the afternoon around 2 p.m., World Kitchen will host a free community meal at the Paradise Alliance Church.
New drone video shows what Paradise looks like today. The Camp Fire destroyed 14,000 homes in Paradise and the surrounding communities of Magalia and Concow. Approximately 12 homes have been rebuilt in this last year.
People find a place hard to abandon completely, if it’s been home – even if it’s built in a very vulnerable place. But most of the people of Paradise seem to have moved to Chico, perhaps permanently, a town of about 90,000 which has increased by about 20,000 people after the fire.
Here’s a drone video showing how much cleanup has occurred in some areas of Paradise:
If private property-casualty insurers won’t sell homeowners a policy unless compelled by regulatory authorities, that’s a passable signal that developers shouldn’t be building in a place. (A great deal of New Orleans, I suspect, should not have been rebuilt).
Kind of an aside, but I think illustrative of the kind of bureaucratic thinking that creates this fire friendly situation in the first place. Kali is going to require that ham radio operators pay an exorbitant fee to operate repeaters on public land.
I believe it’s something like $2,500/yr.
The demand letters went out in September. I believe the fee goes into effect next year.
Ham radio operators have embarrassed kali officialdom, and that’s an unforgiveable sin in a socialist dictatorship.
A lot of rural localities in kali organized their ham radio operators into a sort of “militia” because normal comms networks like cell phone and internet are among the first things to fail in the case of a large wildfire. Amateur radio operators, hams, are the last line of defense so to speak when it comes to comms. Many of these set up and operate repeaters. These simply consist of two way radio equipment that receive a low power signal and retransmit it at a full strength power level with no degradation to the signal.
Ham radio operators set up these repeaters at no cost to the government. They maintain them at no cost to the government. Kali has attempted to replace this grass roots, no cost system several times. All they’ve managed to do is spend millions if not billions introducing systems that include innumerable single points of failure. The disbursed system, if you can call it a system at all, of the hams has none of these faults.
So the kali bureacrats have to kill it. Which is what they are in the process of doing. Ham radio operators have spanked them too many times. Naturally they don’t care that there are people depending on this vital lifeline of information, and eliminating it will cost lives. Stalinists don’t care about the little people.
I wasn’t born in Texas but I got here as soon as I could.
Of course it’s not THEM, the bureaucrats guilty of creating the fire situation say. It’s global warming.
Global warming is a myth that is sustained by government to mask their own stupidity.
[California] is going to require that ham radio operators pay an exorbitant fee to operate repeaters on public land.
Steve57: I saw that and was pissed too. I’ve got my “Second Class Radiotelephone Operator License” stored away somewhere.
Ham radio operators are so quintessentially American — by God, you and me can have a piece of the airwaves and do good stuff — and by God, they do.
The reckoning for California is coming faster than I thought.
Ham radio reminds me of a Bill Kristol (can I mention him?) interview with David Gelernter, a top computer scientist, a few years back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYdXMpa74TY
At 22:00 Gelernter notes, sadly, that with the internet America has moved from being hands-on to casual-users. When the automobile and radio appeared, there was a robust culture of ordinary Americans who didn’t just passively adopt these advances but asked, “How does this work and how can I make it work for me?” So we had all these Americans tinkering with their cars or radios at home.
With computers there are still hackers tinkering away for the fun of it, but not many. (The rest of us got jobs and got paid. Admittedly.)
In 2012 a charitable educational foundation released a brilliant single-board computer, called the Raspberry Pi, for young people to hack on and to learn from. Really brilliant. It was as powerful as a 1998 Unix workstation and as open as a 1977 Apple II.
Everyone loved the Pi and praised it to the sky.
Then they noticed almost no kids were playing with the Pi. They didn’t want to learn how their phones and laptops worked. They just wanted to use them. The people who did stuff with the Pi were mostly boomers.
OK Boomer.
Lots in Paradise… cheap!
Huxley,
Millennials think “OK Boomer” is a snarky put-down on those of us born right after WWII. But I like the way you used it. If we all start saying “OK Boomer” to each other, we can throw it right back in their punk faces.
Or maybe we can just tell them to get off our lawn.
CapnRusty: I’ve been following the “OK Boomer” boomlet and find it amusing.
Here’s an epic Twitter battle between William “Capt. James T. Kirk” Shatner and some haplesss Millennials over “OK Boomer.”
Courtney: I wouldn’t think you’d be one of the ignorant ones, but ok. It’s for the boomers who don’t realize that the hardships that the millennials inherited are not their fault. That these kids are trying to survive a world that has all but been destroyed and that doesn’t make them lazy
Shatner: And the meek shall inherit… is that all your generation does is point fingers and blame others for their pity parties? You don’t get a participation trophy for life; you take what you get and play your best hand. It’s been that way since forever.
https://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/you-will-not-come-at-william-shatner-with-your-ok-boomer-crap-and-live-to-tell-the-tale
Shatner is old but not a boomer (born in 1931!) so he at first responded to “OK Boomer’ with “Sweetheart, that’s a compliment for me.”
Shatner is right about life: “you take what you get and play your best hand.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2015/feb/16/can-the-cia-weaponise-the-weather-geoengineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qxj3AJrono
This is that chem trail stuff that intellectual class people don’t want you hearing about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2O-DVgcvWQ&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR09ut9X4LB81_ksLji3McyI4I34MKM9-ZIhF0Mlggrw-_xjfQqwAwHkuP4
There’s been some recent Congress hearings about this, although they don’t actually matter as they have no oversight. This is related to the Fire incident that people will claim that is off topic, because it’s a weather based phenomenon.
The Frontline episode on the Paradise fire is very good https://www.pbs.org/video/fire-in-paradise-ncamrn/
Beware the boring and predictable “blame it on climate change” bullshit.
I’d rather blame it on the Bossa Nova.
“Eydie Gormie – Blame It On The Bossa Nova”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XpWOBEZLEs
For sheer peppiness you can’t beat early 60s pop. And so wholesome:
Now I’m glad to say I’m his bride to be
And we’re gonna raise a family
And when our kids ask how it came about
I’m gonna say to them without a doubt
Blame it on the bossa nova with its magic spell
Blame it on the bossa nova that he did so well
Oh, it all began with just one little dance
But then it ended up a big romance
Blame it on the bossa nova
The dance of love
For sheer peppiness you can’t beat early 60s pop.
She also gave you this number:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGl1vVOa6ck
Art Deco: I don’t even have to click that to know what it is!
“Always with the negative waves, Moriarty.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AEj3LA2vSo
Ok boomer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXYwP6PNYRA
Awright, enjoy this. She had LUNGS!