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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 09:19:31 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

> fatsos would benefit from walking and biking. Only the capitalists that sell the construction to local governments benefit from bike paths and transit "improvements."

What? When I worked in Sacramento the year before COVID-19 started, there were some bike paths that were behind concrete barriers. It benefitted me, as a driver, because I knew they weren't going to zig zag around some obstacle and get in my lane.

In my former #SoCal hometown, there's a sidewalk that is also a bike lane. Which means that I as a pedestrian had to watch for someone on a bicycle colliding with me. (Happened once. Low speed, so no pain or damage.) I also used to ride a bicycle around town. I stopped partly because there wasn't a safe place to ride in most areas of town.

My point is that regular people can benefit if local governments build and prioritize separate infrastructure for pedestrians and for bicyclists.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 05:35:42 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#SoCal fires update:

According to #CalFire ( https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents ) the fires in Southern #California are finally coming under control.

* Palisades Fire: 97% contained
* Eaton Fire: 99% contained
* Hughes Fire: 98% contained
* Border 2 Fire: 100%
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  Incidents | CAL FIRE
  
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  Ongoing emergency responses in California, including all 10+ acre wildfires.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 23:33:08 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Up to an inch of #wet_snow expected tonight in areas of #SoCal's #San_Bernardino County above 3,000 feet tonight. #NOAA / #NWS alerting because of hazardous road conditions. #High_Desert #Mojave_Desert

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 03:27:53 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#NOAA / #NWS alerting for Winter storm in #SoCal's #San_Bernardino County

From about 16:00 US-Pacific today to 16:00 Monday, heavy snow expected. 12-18 inches above 6,000 feet. 3-6 inches between 4,000 and 6,000 feet. Wind gusts as high as 50 MPH.

In the far Northeastern section of the county and into Nevada, between 10 and 18 inches above 7,000 feet and between 3 and 8 inches between 5,000 and 7,000 feet.

Expect travel impacts on the #I-15 and other roads.

Affected areas include:
Wrightwood, Crestline, Big Bear City, Big Bear Lake, Running Springs, Lake Arrowhead, Mountain Pass, Baker, Red Rock Canyon, Mitchell Caverns

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 14:08:16 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

There's another fire in #SoCal. This one is along Lake Castaic, in an area where I haven't spent any time at all. (That's drive-past country.)

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/22/hughes-fire [www fire ca gov]

The #Hughes_Fire is near the San Fernando Valley (SFV). Somewhere out there is the Ventura County Line.

This one won't be LAFD & DWP against the fire. It will be US Forestry Service, CDF / CalFire, LACo Fire (Los Angeles County) ... they're probably going to use lake water for their fire fighting efforts.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 15:44:23 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#NOAA / #NWS issuing alerts:

red flag warning in effect until 20:00 US-Pacific on Thursday, 2025-01-23. Weak Santa Ana winds (gusts up to 40 MPH) with extremely low humidity. Where: valleys in San Bernardino County and Riverside County (The Inland Empire) and in inland parts of Orange County

#SoCal

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 06:38:53 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#NOAA / #NWS alerting for high winds, low humidity in the mountain areas of #San_Bernardino, #Riverside, #San_Diego, #Orange counties in #SoCal. Beginning 08:00 US-Pacific tomorrow (Monday, 2024-01-20) and continuing until 22:00 US-Pacific on Tuesday, 2025-01-21.

This does not preclude similar alerts being issued for #Los_Angeles County. I just don't have them in my settings.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 12:00:28 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#SoCal wildfires: Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order forbidding real estate speculators from making unsolicited lowball offers to fire victims. https://gnusocial.jp/url/3945905 [www gov ca gov]

I understand his concern, but surely there's got to be a better legal basis than "you have to obey during a state of emergency" or face a misdemeanor.

After all, what are they going to do? Fine the speculators $100 per infraction?
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  Governor Newsom issues order to protect fire victims from predatory real estate speculators
  
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:19:14 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#SoCal: The Auto Fire in Ventura is 47% contained and has been kept to 61 acres. https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/13/auto-fire
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David August (davidaugust@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 18:10:07 JST David August

We have had time to take climate action. We have chosen not to. Now the world burns.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/13/fact-check-yes-1912-article-linked-burning-coal-climate-change/8124455002/
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateCatastrophe #fire #LAfires #wildfires #LosAngeles #socal #SouthernCalifornia #PacificPalisades #altadena #hollywood #EatonFire #PalisadesFire #SunsetFire #HurstFire #KennethFire #USpolitics #AmericanPolitics #political #politics #ClimateJustice #climate #USpol
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1. Newspaper article: The Rodnen & Otamatea Times WAITEMATA & KAIPARA GAZETTE. PRICE-10s perannum in advance WARKWORTH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1912 3d-per Copy. Science Notes and News. COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE. The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 17,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.
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  Fact check: A 1912 article about burning coal and climate change is authentic
  
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  Social media users are sharing an article from 1912 that warns about the danger of coal contributing to climate change.
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David August (davidaugust@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 08:47:04 JST David August

A rough starting point to organize what to take if you have to evacuate.
#fire #SoCal #LosAngeles #GoBag #evacuate #disaster #preparedness #wildfires
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1. 6 P's of Evacuation everything that should go with you and your emergency kit People, pets and papers phone numbers & important documents Prescriptions, vitamins & eyeglasses Pictures & irreplaceable memorabilia Personal computer, hard drive & disks Plastic (credit cards, ATM cards) & cash [icon of an alert symbol, a running person and an arrow]
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 23:52:40 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I'm not a book reviewer, but I have to say I do like "The Wax Pack" by Brad Balukjian. He travels the country in a rushed trip to interview several former professional #baseball players whose baseball cards were in an old package. He doesn't just talk about playing skills or statistics, but about what was going on in their lives. For me, that's a different perspective on these guys.

Growing up in #SoCal as a #LADodgers fan, I was particularly interested in the interview with Steve Yeager, which is one of the less detailed but still engaging.

It's not deep, and it isn't engulfed with the current sociopolitical issues. But it turns out that those things are absolutely not of interest to me.

If you get the chance, read the book.

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Boots Chantilly (bootschantilly@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 07:25:58 JST Boots Chantilly

#SilentSunday #SoCal
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 08:53:20 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

In my old #SoCal hometown, I hadn't been to the library in nearly twenty years (despite walking past it nearly every day when I was "home"). Partly because they'd pretty much stopped buying new books due to county-wide budget cuts and partly because I was often on-call and I didn't want to get sent out of state while a library book was still checked out.

Also, as Son_2 reached adulthood, there was really no need for me to take him to the library.

In my new hometown in #SWMO, I have only occasionally left the house, so I haven't seen the local library.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:19:56 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_kW4GF7Ye8

Wildfires burning in #Los_Angeles, #San_Bernardino, and #Orange counties. #SoCal ... I don't see any real incursions into the High Desert, but one of my sisters did say someone she knew had to retrieve their vehicle from the park and ride along the I-15 because of threats from the fires.
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  The Bridge Fire rages on, continuing to burn Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties with no containment.Subscribe to FOX 11 on YouTube: https://www.youtube....
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George Yang (gxgyang@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 09:54:45 JST George Yang

Stay safe my fellow residents in SoCal! #AirportFire #fire #SoCal
https://apple.news/AnrZRfWlhTLWNiTrfKsXMiQ
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  Fast-moving fire erupts near homes in Orange County, triggering evacuations — Los Angeles Times
  
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  A fire that broke out in Orange County on Monday afternoon quickly grew to about 800 acres and prompted evacuations.
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Boots Chantilly (bootschantilly@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 06:54:33 JST Boots Chantilly

Sometimes I love hard summer light. #SilentSunday #SoCal #badlands
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 12:50:32 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

In the last couple of weeks, I've seen a bunch of people I knew in high school, and a few that I didn't directly know but I knew their sibling(s). Most of them stayed with my family for part of that time. Almost all of them look old.

I'm really ready to go back home. I'm really not planning to spend much time in #SoCal after this. It isn't home, and there's really nothing pulling me back any more.

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K-ZO da Snowman (kzodasnowman@spore.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 07:37:45 JST K-ZO da Snowman

Today is the 7th anniversary of the Charlottesville Unite The Right racist/fascist rally. A large part of it was planned in Orange County, CA. PBS has a documentary about it, Documenting Hate: Charlottesville. Never let anyone tell you California is a wonderland. We grow hate in our backyard too.
#SoCal #OrangeCounty #UniteTheRight

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Ogie Ogilthorpe ✅ (ogieogilthorpe@stranger.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 11:29:56 JST Ogie Ogilthorpe ✅

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/07/26/gojira-band-olympic-opening-ceremony/74561517007/
If #Paris #France can bust out #Gojira for the #OpeningCeremonies in 4 years when the #Olympics are in #LosAngeles they need to bust out with EVERY #SoCal #Metal band that broke got their start here.
#Metallica #Slayer #GunsNRoses #Megadeth and there are many, many more.
Can you imagine how that would look!
🤘😝🤘
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