IF iwas Governor of California, i would call for a Winter conference on a new Strategy for stopping wildfires as soon as they start as the primary goal.

Early satellite sensing and reporting.

Early help locally with red flame retardant drops by helos, by National Guard.

Big 4 engine prop planes parked at every airport staffed by National Guard for early high flame retardant drops on forests and suburban fringes.

And much bigger fire breaks in foothills and coastal oily flammable brush.

We must do more than "oh well" !!

IF iwas Governor of California, immediately i would require that All houses with a pool to have a generator, pump, and roof sprinkler system with an automatic heat-smoke sensor, if your not home to turn it on.

All those pools could save hundreds of houses.

IF iwas Governor of California, i would start reducing the Fuel Load by cutting down all Gum/Eucalyptus trees, like Oakland hills over 1000 homes burned 1991 wild-out of control fire!

Cal Fire and National Guard, immediately and statewide.
The tree is too oily, thus too flammable. It grows to fast, so silly foolish people let it grow near their houses for a fast Forest.
It's too messy with peeling bark.
It's non-native and doesn't belong in California.
Scotch broom too.
Get busy Now!

IF iwas GOVERNOR of California: 1000 trailers stored at Sacramento for these eviction disasters,,, and another 1000 in San Fernando Valley.

Why does Wall Street not tally "The Most Unhappy Companies" as if that doesn't effect Profitability?

Wouldn't you invest your cash in a happy versus Very Unhappy work force Company?

For instance, there was a biotech company in SSF in the 90s and almost all their "part time, no benes" employees Hated working there! They complained to me, their shuttle driver, constantly!  I had to quit that very depressing run on a large Corp campus after a year.

There is another very unhappy company in package delivery on the Peninsula. I use to work there, so I have old direct knowledge. You could Expect to be yelled at Every day ,if you didn't beat the computer in the office with just your brain, no list. If you did beat the office computer, they just added more packages the Next day! "Good work". I talk to the Drivers all the time, "is it still a 3way hate-fest between the drivers and near useless Union about such mundane things as bald tires in the Winter rain, and the Company?" "Yes" is always the answer. Do the night loaders still "toss" your half to 3/4 load on occasionally instead of the "rough sort"?
The answer is always "Yes", in spite of the Union! Recently there was an Employee Driver shooting in the "hub" building; I could have told you that was bound to happen! The stock was private and only managers not drivers could buy it. Then the biggest IPO in US history!

There's another Very unhappy company on the Peninsula now. Employees tell me, "No one likes working here. No one likes their co-workers. It's amazing we get along." People are quitting all the time, in a hurry!  Yet it is a big luxury Corp campus. As an investor, I would think this should be valuable public information. Wonder if Wall Street knows who?  Do you know which very unhappy company this is?

I'm not talking the usual very overpaid, second gear tech company. Spoiled selfish yuppies.

"Alfaro Sourdough" bread MOVED...from Watsonville on Monterey Bay to back East. Favor is too mild now for me so NOT RECOMMEND. NOV2018.

And it was so Strong Delicious from Watsonville's unique coastal yeast and bacteria...

Why does 4th term Governor Jerry Brown, Governor Pat Brown's son, get a Cal media pass ,,, on Everything!? Untaxing the Rich, Biggest in USA oil industry(yeah, you thot alaska or texas) and massive Fracking polluting our ground water basins for Centuries!

Was just at San Mateo DMV office to just turn in medical exam paperwork during lunch break.
Guy came out the back door "no resy" line of over 50 folks,,, and said,
" We are going to lunch now."

All employees?
15 minutes later,,, a guy said,
" The DMV computer system went down."

Another 10 minutes and another un-badged employee came out to the end of the line ,on the sidewalk!,and said,
"Folks, we got the DMV system back up for just 5minutes, then it crashed again. We don't think it will come back up statewide today, but of it does, there are 100 people with reservations that we will help first.(no "sorry")"...
So I left.
"9a-5p on Wednesdays.
8a-5p on Thursdays..."

And Governor Brown is on TV telling us, again!, how unprepared we were for both the Paradise ,Butte, "camp" wildfire and the Ventura and LA "Woolsey" wildfire, the new Extreme and Non- normal. Over 240,000 homes evicted.
Where's the National Guard?

Will anyone, any news outlet hold Governor Jerry Brown accountable as our state elected Leader?
The DMV is broken, and must be hardware, software, employee, privatized FIXed ASAP!  No excuses. No manana. No ignoring the Problem, Sacramento is so good at!!

We lack crisis warning systems and big enough immediate fire responses like  huge cargo747s red flame retardant drops at first sign of a wildfire. And thinning brush yearly and generally. And statewide small Controlled Burns...

Hold the Governor accountable!?
Doubtful.
That is another "disaster".

Wish... there was much better Regional Mass Transit COORDINATION around the SFBayArea, from Sacramento and Modesto and Gilroy to SF and Silicon Valley, so Practically you could Prefer to Ride vesus Drive!! Millions spent, still a Mess.

Highway 80 and 580 both need fast efficient redo passenger train service as cars on roads are Max-ed Out!!

wish wish wish

When there is a WILDFIRE in California, the TV "news" channels show flames as close as they can get, instead of a MAP showing the Location and Size growth of this Public Emergency!! Why in 2018 this Sensationalism!?

Friday, 9 November 2018 and it is happening Again with the "camp" Paradise "Butte Country" Wildfire and the Ventura Wildfire!! No accurate map of the size of the fire.

It happened with the Sonoma Wildfire. Just a tiny campfire symbol to mark the general location. No map specifics.

The huge gigantic "Carr" fire in... Redding!! No accurate tv news broadcast mapping of that fire progress. Super expensive losses. And California fire insurance policies are intentionally vague on coverage!, Instead of one page summary, in English, clear and concise, "You house is only 80% covered and none of your belongings, furniture, or cars." Simple, but there is so much fraud and corruption.

And Today MALIBU very very very expensive 'hood is being evacuated!!

And the large city of Santa Rosa suburban wildfire. It wasn't till weeks after the start that helos and drones showed just part of the aerial widespread damage. Zero sirens at midnight because the police didn't want to start a panic!, so some people burned to death in their suburban beds. To this day, California rural residents and authorities have severely underestimated the danger of the Smokey-the-bear fuel load!

It happened year after year with the North Bay fires that burned South and West of Clear Lake with narrow 2 lane county roads. The Napa Valley fire on the East mountains. 1000s lost their houses.

It even happened in San Francisco in October 1989 in the earthquake liquifaction on landfill, 3 story bldgs collapse, in the big Marina District fire. Not one tv new service showed the fire from a mile away for perspective, from the Golden Gate Bridge or Pacific Heights. Not one. They all like moths got as close as they could to the flames.

When will California Wildfire reporting by tv news be truly professional and show by helpful and accurate maps the true growing size of these very common and very expensive Wildfire public emergencies?"
ENOUGH "MaSs HySteRiA" to make more money off annoying tv commercials!!

At least the local Bay Area newspapers got the 1987 Golden Gate Bridge 50th birthday party , middle SAGGING SPAN right with front page photos from the far E. side! If anyone tells you it only went flat or it never snows in sf, they are lying.

And ENOUGH with "acres"!!
Not informative!!
99% of American adults don't know the square footage of an "acre"!!
Use "square MILES"!!

Why not tv news show split screen ,before and after? Google Map has the Before of every street in California.
Isn't informing their primary job, or just ratings and profit?

Prop 10 looses!? 2 to 1? Voters were scared foolish by rich anti's! Renters voted en mass against their own self interest, why!?

Isn't Costa-Hawkins unenforceable, because SF has popular rent control,without means testing and with many many eviction "for owner's family" lie-abuses, and some Bay Area cities just voted in Rent Control in Mt. View and Alameda?

The Anti's for the rental owners threatened, THREATENED All renters with 3 day eviction Without Cause and convert California rental apartments to "short term" vacation rentals in the published state voter pamphlet!!  Public Blackmail! How can the Governor and state Supreme Court allow voters to be blackmailed en mass of all their rental opportunity in California!? This is such an invalid tainted vote then, with the payola Legislature afraid to act for the Common Good!
Look to a just Judge now to take down Costa-Hawkins, a law from Sacramento that said "no more city's or counties can have rent control." That law has been violated by these cities recently voting IN rent control!

Voters, informed and uninformed gullible, take heart! Votes still mean something! Lies and dark money will eventually fail.

6Nov2018, Election Day in California and USA! Big Problem: the Signature Box on the California Ballot has shrunk too Short and has 2 Large Perforations!! Who is behind this!? This Must be Fixed statewide asap!!

My legal name is 4 words, first middle and two last, barely room to write neatly.

What about all the long Latino legal names here!?

Again, Who is behind this shrinking California ballot signature box!?

If your news feed, tv or radio, say one temp SF, say 75f, you can pretty much disregard that single data point location, especially in "Summer", the coldest season w fog in the city. (The warmest is usually ,,,October)

Just for fun one day I looked up the actual location of the weather stations in Frisco and Sanjosey.

Then I called the tv Wx suits guys at ABC, CBS, and NBC and asked, "Do you guys know where the official weather station is in SF and SJ?"
Uhhhh, lots of guess,,, salaries probably in the 6 or 7 figures, but not one guy knew!
So I told them, for free.

Frisco's only official weather station was,,, guesses???,,, near the Castro Safeway and new Mint, on the Eastern and usually much warmer side of town! Duh.
Sometimes in "Summer" tourist season it can be sunny and warm up Market st. in the Gay, safer Castro.
At the same time just West less than an air mile away on Twin Peaks in the Summer clouds-stratus-fog it can be so cold damp windy and poor visibility you wouldn't get out of a tour bus or car at the famous popular Vista point!

So there should be at least 3 temps ,or 4, for Frisco: the moderate Castro, and the Ocean Beach far West say at the Beach Chalet restaurant, and the Wind Tunnel" of 40-60mph low point occasional breezes at the Fort Point under the Golden Gate(the name of the Sac.River mouth) say. Add maybe Bay View in the poor ,high crime, unpopular SE quarter near 3rd st. Or the Ferry Building near the Bay Bridge.

And Sanjosey?
Guesses???
It's the most moderate location(hint) again ,,, without the Huge day-night / location temp swings of the hill confined ugly sprawl, terrible red light traffic jams and commutes, and usually Worst boxed in Smog in the BayArea...
Give up?
The wide open, flat, far North, benefiting from Bay cooling breezes,,, where no one lives(hint)... yep, the too close cramped crowded flashy SJO airport.
Moffitt Field would be a better Silicon Valley airport; You could approach from the South not so close to dt high-rise offices and condos or from the North over the Bay.
Regionally, Travis AFB would be better than clumsy SFO or rebuild terminal-late OAK or cramped SJO.
Marinites closed Hamilton AFB for Ever, the nymbies.
Leave SJO to all the Corp jets, many.
Sanjosey just Had to have an airport, even if they bungled it.