Was just reading some articles and a lot of wealthy areas have lost a lot of the homes in them, which is honestly somewhat surprising, but fire does not descern between poor and wealthy after all. IIRC, environmentalists make controlled burns controversial in left-wing areas, so that's a lot of why wildfires happen in the first place, when they aren't done via arson anyways.
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Suzanne Sommers moved out of Cali years ago after a fire like this when it took her and her husband three years just to get permits to have a new place built. California is a red tape nightmare. You're talking about a half a decade before lumber will be put on the lot where your house used to stand.
Makes you wonder how much of their famous GDP is just government spending.
This is part of why there's so much enthusiasm for GDP, a ton of it is government spending.
Hey, issuing those permits and doing environmental assessments is important and valuable economic activity!