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henrygandorf

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  1. not voting for newsom. from what i understand, he single-handedly caused this. all of the bonkers candidates who ran against him in the recall would’ve had this handled with a few rakes.
  2. signing off from marina del rey. i grabbed 3 bottles of bourbon, my wife packed for a month, and we had 2 puppies with us. fun field trip but hoping to return in the am. sunset fire somehow went nw which was lucky.
  3. yeah, it might be time to bounce.
  4. for july 4th, 2024, we went to a restaurant on the beach, ubered to my cousin's in the palisades, then walked with half of the party to the high school up the street to watch fireworks. 6 months later all 3 are gone. this is also one of those frustrating situations where everyone "wants to help" but the best thing for everybody to do (assuming you're not evacuating), is to stay home to let others get where they need to go. pretty helpless feeling. we're donating to a couple of animal shelters because they're about to get inundated by animals running out of the woods. apologies if that's political.
  5. “seems pretty foolish for a state to be unprepared for a worst-case scenario weather event.” -texas people as temps drop
  6. for those asking isolated questions about how it gets like this and why it's so hard to contain, please remember that we've basically been in a drought for over 100 years and this is one of the driest seasons on record. it hasn't rained here in 8 months. so as far as scooping a bunch of non-salt water to drop on the fires, those levels are already horrifyingly low. add the winds, which are bad on their own (think hurricane without the rain), and shit spreads fast and makes life hard on first responders. winds cause trees to fall and shit to fly into power lines which fall and start fires. i'm sure some were started by lit cigs, bbq mishaps, or jewish space lasers, but huge winds always start fires. there are at least 4 independent fires going right now, which is insanely rare (typically one fire spreads but they're all connected). also remember, many of these communities, especially ones in the hills have one way in and one way out. when people are fleeing and firetrucks are trying to get in/out, it's almost impossible. anyone familiar with how la is on a map can tell you how few options you have just to get from the city to the valley and how clogged those roads get, and that's before trees/random objects are blocking roads. the news just literally said "please don't use water today if you can avoid it, even if you're nowhere near the fires". i've never heard that. i'm gonna go watch chinatown. @Sbbruin glad you're safe. let's meet up at a shitty palm springs casino. don't bring your cats.
  7. bullwinkle has survived. i was sent to get breakfast.
  8. the winds are slowing in places and its light out now so the choppers are back up. we lost power several times through the night but back on now. 4 separate fires all pretty much with 0% containment. insanity.
  9. earlier today a couple blocks from me: a city bus hit a fire hydrant literally across the street from the fire house. only in la.
  10. wife just packed our go-bags but we should be ok to stay. cousin’s house in palisades is “gone”. friends in pasadena, la canada, malibu are without power and have bailed out east. we’re watching a friend’s puppy that is brothers with our puppy and his place in mdr is empty so we thought of heading there. local news confirms there is nothing can be done to fight the fire until sunrise, and the next 6-8 hours are expected to be the worst yet. i will either hit the throttle on the bourbon or take the 10 to the 15 to caesar’s. maybe all of the above.
  11. it wasn’t and it isn’t.
  12. the legend lives on, even though he likely died many years ago at the hands of a taxi he threw himself in front of in hopes of a fat settlement. rest in power, u.r. 🙏🏻
  13. they're both ripping off welcome back kotter.
  14. you complete me.
  15. same as it ever was.
  16. narcos narcos mexico night manager patriot bureau(french)/the agency(u.s.) peaky blinders animal kingdom snowfall assuming you've seen sopranos/the wire? @Slacks
  17. things that bother me are typically small script issues, not plot stuff. there could be a 500 page thread about movie plotholes. stfu and enjoy your popcorn, it's a movie. here are a couple that bother me when i hear/see them. in jerry maguire, during the cardinals v cowboys game when cuba gooding gets hurt, one of the announcers (gifford?) says something like "well, at a time like this, you just hope his family is not watching this." ok, i know he's not an actor, but come on. it's the end of the season, cardinals are hot, challenging the cowboys for the division, he's the star player having a breakout season, and they're playing a close game on monday night football. yeah, his family probably has a lot going on, they'll just read about it in the paper the next day. another one is old school. they have a big party, and it's clearly friday night. will ferrell talks about how he can't drink because he has "a nice little saturday" planned in the famous bb&b/home depot scene. then the next day, everybody is back at the office, kids (both high school and college) are back in class. it's a fucking saturday and it's not that hard to write it that way. also, for the "a few good men" mentions, he didn't need the big payoff to win the case. he had the two conflicting orders - that's where jessup got caught. "sometimes men take matters into their own hands", "no, you made it clear your men never take matters into their own hands, your men follow orders or people die."
  18. hmm, how should i put this? if you liked "dead to me", you'll like it. about 20 min in, i asked if this was by the same creator, and looked it up and it was (i hadn't seen the trailer which says it is). the tone and structure are very similar. it's built to binge on netflix.
  19. kinda.
  20. you can just say "seinfeld".
  21. shocked nobody is on here discussing “no good deed”. most of you seem married.
  22. loved s1, keep trying to get people to watch it but some say it "looks too weird". that trailer was awesome but will not help my case.
  23. so her one and only lead that got her to spain was somehow finding the article about the sniper precision on the cuban gangster that was written about 3 hours after the incident? ok. i can’t find articles online when i know most of the title.
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