I don't understand why the attack on the reservoir being empty for maintenance

[question everything]

At least, when we lived in California in the 90s, the Santa Ana winds cane in September and October. I think that fire season could start again in May. So December January should be the ideal time for maintenance, no?

And I don’t understand the attack on the Mayor. She did not know that fires would start when she traveled abroad.

Do people and “pundits” are just looking for easy targets?

Found this one:

January is an odd time for wildfires in California

This fire is unprecedented. In 10 years of doing this, I've never flown fire in the United States in January. Working fires in January usually means we're in Australia, Mexico, and Chile.

We're in the off-season. That's why all four of our DC-10s aren't here; the other two are in maintenance. Typically, we park our airplanes in October or November, and we'll do recurrent annual training in February and March before the first airplanes go out on contract in mid to late March.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/im-pilot-fighting-ca-wildfires-115002768.html

[marybourg]

1. Attacking everything is the new normal for tRump and the Trumpanzees.

[Lulu KC]

2. Agree

It's just searching for reasons to attack. Reservoirs have to be maintained. Mayor was told there were severe fire conditions--I'm curious about how often that happens now. Since she is a Black woman, she's going to be under fire by certain individuals no matter what she does. In the Reddit Los Angeles forum I haven't seen anyone falling for this.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Trump and those like him

Take a situation, amplify it, make it worse, blame others, drag it out. Any solutions offered are all about him and not good. Except for perceived political gain. He and his followers are loud and hateful. It is beyond reasonable or rational thought.

[RockRaven]

4. Because there are exactly zero good faith actors in RW politics and media.

It is all disingenuous opportunistic bullshit, all of the time.

[rubbersole]

9. It's beyond insane.

They'll invent a conspiracy out of everything. "Dems made it snow because..."

[Martin Eden]

15. THIS

They have zero ethics, integrity, or honesty.

[intrepidity]

5. Exactly what I was thinking

"How DARE they be unprepared during FIRE SEASON!?!"

Uhhhhh....January?

I've lived in CA nearly my whole life, and while I've seen wildfires happen during "winter", that usually was *not* considered "fire season".

Of course, things are changing. But to accuse for not being prepared this time is outrageous. Just assholes being assholes.

[Retrograde]

14. I've only been here for 2/3 of my life

but, yeah, Fire Season used to be mostly September and October. January is supposed to be part of the Rainy Season (or the Mud Season).

The burnt hills' problems aren't over. If the area gets the rain it's supposed to this time of year it's going to become Landslide Season. But let's go on ignoring global climate change: how can that affect the country's largest agricultural regions?

[surfered]

6. Facts don't matter. The goal is to demonize us.

[Blue Full Moon]

7. Did the fires start near that reservoir?

[question everything]

16. The reservoir is Santa Ynez which is in Pacific Palisades

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ynez_Reservoir

[Klarkashton]

8. Even Newsom chimed in about the reservoir saying

That he was going to investigate it. The whole thing is absurd.

Shitheads all over social media are all about "I wish California was the way it used to be" it's always some maga loser from Arkansas or Texas.

[Hekate]

10. Both the Mayor and the Fire Chief are being attacked because #1 they are women #2 lies work for the thugs

The rest of the country has a hard enough time wrapping its heads around how different California’s climate is — and they have been told we’re nothing but a bunch of DEI elites and deserve to be wrecked.

Mayor Bass just took office recently, but she’s got 3 strikes against her, take them in any order: Black, Female, a Democrat. So lie and lie and lie.

Good post, by the way. Thx.

[JoseBalow]

11. Bullying makes small people feel bigger

[dlk]

12. Republicans require someone to hate and attack

It distracts from their complete incompetence when it comes to leadership and governance.

In this case, since they are climate deniers, it wouldn’t matter when the reservoir was down for maintenance. It’s always the Democrats’ fault, even the Santa Ana winds.

[ShazamIam]

13. I quit watching video news about the fire after the first day exactly because the so called journalists were spreading

more lies than QAnnon. It was disgusting.

[Retrograde]

17. I had to stop reading the NYT Opinion section today

when it seemed like half the stories were about how Californians were stupid to live here and we were all doomed and we all wanted the rest of the country to bail us out again - neglecting the actual facts that Altadena and Pacific Palisades have been around for well over a century, and that the entire LA basin is not on fire, and that the Paradise fire some years back was over 400 miles from LA. But the writers of this piece were from Harvard, so they know more than us Westerners.

/rant