As someone that actually lives here & knows the facts
not just posted because of dislike of Calif. etc.
Probably because of all the fires these last few years
Exactly their reason why...
'sort of'
& Our
govt. here, powers to be
aiding/allowing the Insurance companies
to get bailed out/recoup funds they finally had to pay out
after years of not having to...
They get a guaranteed 17% profit...
Raised via raised Homeowners Insurance rates...
Lobbyist doing what they do...
follow the $$$ it never lies
instead of fixing the problem of not managing the forest floors
& letting logging do what they do, cut fire breaks/cut roads,
then stack & burn off slag/brush, controlled burns in piles
as part of their deal
to get logging contracts
They lose...
Lack of tax bases, from not getting the lumber or wood sales Billions $$ etc.
or taxes from payroll income, of all the truckers & mills, mill workers, loggers
"all the lumber from here has been grown to harvest for lumber
hasn't been any old-growth logging in decades
so that can't be a good excuse,
they don't let them log"
fucken' idiots
it's all
eco-Nazi/extremist or ecologists-activist,
paid insurance
Lobbyists & eco
lobbyists BS
vicious circles/cycles
especially if you live in a mill town
lumber & logging employes, trucking, diesel sales, mill workers
(or used to employ now)
10's of thousnads across the state, if not 100,000 here...
stepping over dollars to save nickles, appease their minority base
if you have your house "financed"
you have lil' to no choice, to pay, pmi's & fire insurance
or sell & move, to
another shithole somewhere else
if you own it outright you set your own limits on liability
& replacement costs ...
The whole west, west of the great plains
the Rockies & West, Snake River Idaho, to the Cascades & Sierras
to LA/Malibu (winds down there) was on fire,
the past couple of years,
so was millions upon millions of acres in Alaska,
in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon (pretty damn green), Arizona, NM
even parts of Canada (also pretty damn green)
all because of most of the same type **** I listed above
Lack of fire breaks & lots of deadfall on the ground
not getting cleaned up, because of no forest management
pulling funds away, to fund inner-shitty social reengineering projects
or some train to nowhere nobody even wanted
Most were natural causes, many fires started here was
Lightning or Arson (eco-terrorism)
that started most all of it here...
Or outright carelessness, stupidity, mowers, weed whackers,
campers not properly dousing campfires
Bark Beetle tree kills are bad too, all over the west
they removed some million+ trees just along the roads
here in Tuolumne Co. alone
