Thank you Gail for this supportive reply. I know it is difficult for you since you live in an area that’s threatened by forest fires, and have written about that.

The dysfunction of the US government has brought us here, and I worry where it will take us. One wonders where the government is now? Why haven’t they sent the national guard? No, Congress was busy yesterday sanctioning the ICC for issuing Netanyahu’s arrest warrant, and the Biden admin was busy shipping $8 billion in weapons to Israel. That’s their number one concern. Biden’s “infrastructure” money went to corrupt developers instead of fixing LA’s hydrants.

I predict the people of LA have to spend their upcoming years battling the insurance companies. If government steps in to bail anyone out, it will bail out those insurance companies and the banks. That’s the way America has behaved in this century, and that’s the way it will continue to behave unless WE THE PEOPLE rise up and do something.