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Sbbruin

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  1. Bruins v Washington PAC 12, er Big 10, after dark. That just doesn’t sound right. FS1.
  2. My house turned 100 in 2024.
  3. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE-lGN7S7hW/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
  4. Hydrants are not designed to battle widescale wildfires burning through neighborhoods. The winds and the speed of spread was just way to much to battle. And air drops weren't possible in those winds
  5. 100% assessment complete. Eaton Fire damage totals:
  6. We may be thugs and Los Vatos Locos, but we ain't Nazis.
  7. Good. This guy has a shady history too. https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2025-01-22/california-attorney-general-charges-l-a-landlord-with-alleged-price-gouging-in-wake-of-wildfires?sfmc_id=6529c8f93ed79c24f887e7a4&skey_id=cec2ed7b734552ea35feafaa21373f7a91fa83fb8f7e6148c62d368be8dd9590&utm_id=38312229&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLTR-Email-List-Essential California&utm_term=Newsletter - Essential California
  8. Fuck me. I didn’t listen to this sage advice. I just felt I had to see what I had heard. I lasted less than 5 minutes, and covered just a spec of that map. I burst out in tears. It’s devastation beyond comprehension. And it’s not some far flung place. It’s where I’ve lived for the last 23 years. Where I’ve walked my dogs, raised my kids, gone to breakfast, smiled and waved to neighbors. Enjoyed our little country club. It’s all gone. I wasn’t prepared to see it. My heart is shattered. But again, I am among the fortunate. But what drew us here is no more. We have to stay and see this through though. We need to stay Dena Strong. But fucking a, that was a punch to the nuts I wasn’t prepared for. And i didn’t even see the worst parts. To say I am sad is trivializing it. I’m crushed. This was a community we were so proud of. 25% of people drive around with “Beautiful Altadena” license plate frames because, well, it was. It was an oasis in this urban metropolis. And it just got nuked. We’ll see what rises from it.
  9. I'm not sure how lucky you are to be a single standing house in a wasteland like that.
  10. TexAgs posts during the Eaton and Palisades fires (don't ask why I checked) were all about that. "I'm not sending one dime to California " and the like. Imagine trying to fight hundreds of structure fires in these conditions?
  11. We ain't paying our $375 mil payroll on those prices
  12. Watched Duty saying they've issued evac orders. Fuck all this.
  13. Damn this map makes me sick to my stomach. https://recovery.lacounty.gov/eaton-fire/
  14. They are definitely going for some PR. But delighted to be a recipient. Even if insurance doesn’t cover it, it’s a small price to pay under the circumstances. Although I’m going to hold the insurance company’s feet to the fire on all of it.
  15. So we scored, in a way. We met with ServPro today, and our place is so much more trashed than we thought. The outside air smells perfectly fine, but our house smells like a campfire. He went around wiping surfaces and everything is covered in ash and soot. Everything. And the attic is covered in ash too because Spanish tiles blew off and ash filled the attic. All interior surfaces need to be cleaned and the attic insulation needs to be replaced. All furniture needs cleaning. We’ll be out of there for at least a month or more. But my wife was scouring AirBNB for places, and stumbled upon a place seconds after it was posted because it’s close enough to our house that they had no power and couldn’t list it. The moment it popped up my wife called and we went by today and we have it booked for 6 weeks. And Air BnB kicked in 60% of the cost for fire victims. And they’ll take our 2 cats and a dog. She was super sympathetic to our plight. But we now have a home for awhile. Such a relief. Moving in tomorrow.
  16. Ohio St got woken up by that Michigan loss. They’ve been on a mission since.
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