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Kathleen Devanney. A human.'s avatar

"P.S. I am no longer sure about anything or anybody. If I included a clip from a public figure, it does not mean an endorsement of trust."

I am in the same place. I appreciate this post, and your sincere attempt to account for where we are and what's going on, and all we don't know.

Thank you, Celia. I'm still positive it turns out pro-human. Best to you.

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Michelle Katz's avatar

Thanks Celia. This is comprehensive and much needed. LA was my home for 23 years and I’ve lived through countless wildfires there. This is not a wildfire. Now we are a few hours away in the mountains of SoCal. No one has had power for three days here. It gets below freezing at night and many people are elderly and without generators. There is no apparent reason for the power shut down except for the high winds we had on day one. SCE has used power outages as a scare tactic and a destabilizing tool since I moved here in 2020. As you likely know, State Farm refused to renew 72,000 fire insurance policies in Los Angeles in 2024. One of the most obvious and irritating facts about the fires is that they all started at once and are miles apart. It begs the question, are there any safe states in the US and if so which are they?

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