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Originally Posted by aerohead
' It's the wind stupid!'
The fire chiefs said that no amount of men, machines, water, or differences in utility infrastructure would have made any difference.
It's just a larger version of the Lahaina, Maui, Hawaiian conflagration.
Stupid codes. Stupid building permit offices. Mindless real estate agents. Mindless building contractors. Thoughtless consumers.
' Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.' George Santayana.
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The elite $2000 per hour fire fighters that saved all those rich people mansions seemed to have worked.
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1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
2011 leaf SL, white, portable 240v CHAdeMO, trailer hitch, new batt as of 2014.
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