They could take lessons from all the good folks in Bermuda; they have been doing that for a very long time.

I wish they would charge all those homes that are buried in the wildland-urban interface or overgrown with trees and shrubbery for the fire protections required during the predictable yearly fires in Southern California.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Frank Furter
I wish they would charge all those homes that are buried in the wildland-urban interface or overgrown with trees and shrubbery for the fire protections required during the predictable yearly fires in Southern California.

They have certainly been talking about doing that.

I was a little harsh on the poor homeowners. Doubt that the homeowners or developer are solely to blame-- I would bet that the county supervisors and assessors saw dollar signs when the tax base extended to those building sites.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

Calculator says the savings comes out to 0.44 cubic feet per second. That should reduce the flow in the polluted LA River to a trickle.