Now What?

The news cameras have moved away from our fire disaster and on to the latest twitter posting the twit has posted.  Enough already.  We all know he's a sociopath and King of Ego.  Stop feeding this monster attention.  Starve the monster of attention and he will wither away.  It doesn't matter if the attention he is getting is negative -- it's still attention and the spotlight -- and that's all that egomaniacs care about.

Here in Sonoma County California, as the East Coast doesn't really give a lick about us, we are shifting through ashes and asking ourselves, "Now What?"

There is no playbook for this, folks.  There is nothing to compare this to.  There is no disaster plan that covers something of this magnitude other than a nuclear blast.

We are winging this.

Take note people, climate change refugees are something we will see more and more of.  A natural disaster will happen that pretty much wipes out a region.  The slow lengthy recovery, if recovery happens at all, will take too long for people to deal with.  They will just pick up and go elsewhere.

Blame has already been placed on PG&E.  For those not from northern California PG&E stands for Pacific Gas and Electric.  It's a publically traded utility company on the New York Stock Exchange.  People invest in the stock market to make money.  People invested in PG&E stock to make money.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to put together that the shareholders who invested money in PG&E (you) have this expectation of profits.  You would not have invested in PG&E if you did not have that expectation.

In order to make those profits happen corners are cut and safety compromised to make the all mighty financial statements look appealing to investors and shareholders.  The management of PG&E to make this happen is not something the shareholders are really into and don't really care about.  The shareholders just want profits - at any cost.

Well, shareholders and other investors, it's time to pay the fiddler.