Do the Right Thing

While we expect and demand that our elected officials make decisions with health and human safety in mind, they don't. It's become clear they make decisions like Actuaries.

The night before the fires started, my neighbor, Yoni, sent me this New York Times article titled Los Angeles Braces for ‘Life-Threatening and Destructive’ Winds. The fact that many intelligent Angelenos opt to read the New York Times for information about their city as opposed to the LAT is a conversation for another time. Regardless, I read this NYT article at 7:43 pm in the after glow of hitting multiple parlays on the Lions-Vikings game.

Despite the euphoria that hitting a parlay brings, I was snapped back into reality when I read these two paragraphs:

These winds aren’t unusual, and the strongest Santa Ana winds typically happen this time of the year. But by January, Los Angeles has usually had enough rain that the fire threat is mitigated because the vegetation is greener and there is more moisture in the ground. This year, that hasn’t…