Million dollar homes in Malibu California now on fire.

It's racing through the community.

MSNBC!

No link as of yet.

it has been so dry, windy and warm here. Fires in January.

This is crazy.

but of course, even rich people have memories which are being destroyed in these houses right now.

And there are some apts there; not everyone in malibu is a millionaire.

Holy crap!!

have to go home to see it. This is nuts!

Real bad.

When I got home I thought "damn this is fire weather" ... it's so damn warm today.

It's been very warm here today. I wonder what started the fires?

Warm in January even for Southern California.

the past week or so.

by the beach - so it will not go any further - phew!

Sine Pacific Palisades is right there it is bad!

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

I know the Northeast. You can have it.

i'll stay right where im at

I'd give a nut to live back in the Bay Area ... both for Pacific Grove. (sigh)

Like, long hair? ...On a Man no less? How Weeeeeeird! :eyes:

No, I don't have any pot to sell you. You stupid, uptight, cookie cutter Idiot.

visit i always meet someone and i swear they all say the same thing--"Oh my brother in law has a friend who moved to California, do you know him?" "Um what part, whats his/her name" "Oh you know down south there and i think his name is Frank" or Judy. I don't think people understand how big ca is or how many people are here until they visit.

"Do you know my cousin in Juneau?" It's true there are only about 600,000 people here, but they're all r-e-a-l-l-y spread out.

visit.

I'm like, er, you realize it's over 400 miles away, right?

no self style of their own...

People think NJ all looks like fucking Newark/Elizabeth/Secaucus. In any case, it keeps the fucking morans away. Subaru is even running ads here making fun of that.

Of course, I though we had it good here in CO, but of course there are rare big blizzards.

ever actually live here.

You couldn't pay me enough to live on the East Coast, or in Colorado, for that matter. Yeah, we have Earthquakes- and fires sometimes, too. But it's something you live with, a regional fact of life: same as hurricanes, tornadoes, shitty-ass blizzards or Tom DeLay.

but Texas is crawling! :scared: Hate bugs, give me snow any day!

yet there are plenty of people who live in Chicago.

Amazing how many folks can't manage to make it through one of these threads without taking the obligatory potshots at California. Don't like it? Cool. We have more than enough people as it is.

here.

Please, we beg of you, stay where ever you are because you will HATE it in California. :)

California is a big place. Huge swaths of it never worry about fire, earthquakes, mudslides or whatever.

I'm in one of 'em. It's a flood plain, though I'm on a high spot and even in bad years have never had worse than a soggy lawn. :shrug: No place is perfect.

And it has nothing to do with jealousy, either. :eyes:

Usually it's earthquakes. I don't live on a fault. I'm a lifelong Californian and I've never felt an earthquake. Some people in my neighborhood felt the Loma Prieta quake in '89, but I was in a car and it was already a bit rumbly so I didn't.

The other thing is the cost of living. Now things cost more here, but wages are decent, groceries and utilities are very cheap where I live, and I'm in one of California's less expensive cities, so that doesn't really apply.

This is my home and I love it. But it's crowded, so everybody else should stay wherever they happen to be from. The earthquakes here will kill you, you know. ;)

and staying here! I don't have to shovel snow, the humidity is low in the summer, and where I live has really clean air. In what other place can one find both good Thai food and good Mexican food, even in a rural community? Oh, and I need to mention, the county is producing its own wines.

Laugh at our fires, storms and earthquakes if you must. Some of us call this "home" and are happy here.

I'm proud to be a native Californian.

so were my parents and grandparents going way back to the early 1900's. I love California.

I remember after the 1994 quake there was this woman that was interviewed and said "I'm getting out of here ... I hate this damn state" .... my mom and I both said "Bye, bitch!".

that Mother Nature can't have an effect on...hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons etc. I guess it could be said that people are crazy living anywhere but you have to be somewhere. Where I am in CA the only worry is earthquakes but I still prefer that to lot's of other things that Mother Nature could dish out. I try not to be so smug about the things that other people in other places deal with cause next time I might be the one with a problem. x(

Actually, New York is the only reason to go any further east of Colorado.
No matter what your bag is, you can do it better in Calif.

You don't draw shit. We got a nice quiet beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So let me make something plain. I don't like you sucking around bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name, I don't like your jerk-off face, I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off -- do I make myself clear?

The Dude: I'm sorry, I wasn't listening.

-Police chief throws coffee mug, hitting The Dude in the head-

The Dude: OW! Fucking fascist!

-Police chief knocks The Dude's chair over-

STAY OUT OF MALIBU LEBOWSKI!

-Police chief kicks The Dude while he's on the ground-

STAY OUT OF MALIBU, DEADBEAT!

Keep your ugly, fucking, gold-bricking ass out of my beach community!

---

Sorry, Lebowski quotes always take precedence over good taste. I hope nobody gets hurt in the fires.

Watched it for the gagillionth time around x-mas. Still laugh like an idiot everytime. The fascist coffee mug doink in the head. :rofl:

not just Calif. incredible sunsets - all incredible sunsets worldwide

It was all the way to the shore! :cry:

winged or finned was hurt - they will be fine..

all she wrote. Nowhere else for the flames to go. Finis.

Huge flames...I hope people and pets got out of harms way.

community was threatened a year ago by huge fires in the adjacent hills. The flames came damn close, but the firefighters did a heroic job of keeping them from homes. Fires are a fact of life in Southern California which has much mountainous terrain. People here know and accept the risks.

north of Malibu Creek State Park. Do you know which way it's headed?

We have horrendous wildfires here in summer, but the population is so small, rarely does a lot of damage occur. I'd send SoCal some of our weather if I could - but unfortunately, not even 38 below can stop a fire. We have bad housefires (usually woodstoves or toyo heaters) every winter and our firefighters have it tough at these temps.

Good wishes, Malibu.

One can hope.

I'm sure some freepers hope that Barbra Striesand's house burned down.

Pat yourself on the back, sweetie.

You've bridged the gap between dumb fuck responces between DU and FR.

You must be so proud.

I don't like they guy but am not wishing anything to happen to his places.

Arnold has.

all Californians and wants to replace it with something that will put our tax dollars into the pockets of the same health care crooks that have caused our health care crisis to begin with, he deserves some inconvenience, because that is all it would be to him. When homeless guys have to die in a field from cancer like a feral cat because the hospital kicked them out, I think Arnold should know what it's like to be homeless, even if it's only for twenty minutes.

Barbara Streisand has done nothing to screw this state. Arnold has. Therein lies the difference. BTW, he lives in Pacific Palisades. I was just venting.

AT least that's what I heard this morning. (Also Suzanne Somers and I missed who else)

It's sad...of course most if not all of those people have insurance and enough money to rebuild and buy "things."

But we all - rich, poor and in-between - have memories, pictures, mementos that cannot be replaced with any amount of money.

And I really hope no pets were lost.

And we should hope for the least amount of casualties. To blast people for being rich while their lives are in danger is kind of fucked up.

x(

...for living in a flood plain.

http://www.laalmanac.com/election/el18.htm

(approximately)
42% Democrat
34% Republican

...How's that stack up against your town, smart guy?

Everyone loves to crack on them, but I have lived in North and Southern Cal, and I can tell you straight out that Californians are amongst the best people in this nation. They are open-minded, reasonable, and they have a sunny outlook on life.

I hope and pray that everyone in Malibu comes out of this disaster okay.