California City Dwellers Fleeing To Deserts And Mountains
It seems like there’s a lot of people waking up to the reality that there’s some serious pitfalls to urban living. From the LA Times, it looks like a lot of Californians are heading for the hills and deserts to get away from the areas most impacted by the Chinese COVID-19.
As the coronavirus pandemic tightens its grip on California’s largest cities, some residents are fleeing urban sprawl and seeking shelter in isolated communities in the Mojave Desert or rugged Sierra Nevada. Their hope, they say, is to avoid possible public unrest and limit their exposure to the virus.
Well, they’re not wrong for recognizing that something is wrong. Any port in a storm, I guess, but are these newfound preppers genuine or are they just looking to take advantage of relocation and bring all their baggage with them or do they recognize that the very idiocy they readily accept in California has, in large part, caused the resultant issues? My guess is probably not.
In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday night that residents were forbidden from moving to or from vacation homes outside the city, along with a number of other health and safety restrictions aimed at fighting contagion.
Forbidden from moving to a vacation home? Is this guy serious? Is this America? No, its the People’s Republic Of Chinafornia. Who the hell put this man in charge of anything? Probably the same people who allowed the quarantined passengers off the cruise ship and called the travel ban from China ‘xenophobic’. And these same people want to move outside their playpen. On second thought, I agree with the LA mayor. Remain in place.
Aside from the obvious, having these locusts leave their containment zone presents a number of problems. Rural California has a low population for a reason- they don’t have water. And if that resource is already under strain due to the very reasons they left, these new hipster transplants are going to find themselves in a world of hurt in a hurry. Let alone the meth heads holed up in places like Victorville. Small town America immediately knows who’s not from there, and usually the locals don’t like you. Nothing personal, just the way it is. So what of it? Are these newfound hipster preppers going to embrace a sustainable lifestyle, the same one they always preach about?
“As soon as the coronavirus pandemic clears up,” she added with a smile, “I’m leaving town.”
Looks like the answer is no.
Heaven forbid this thing gets worse than it is. These people can’t even deal with minor inconvenience, let alone their own survival.
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“In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday night that residents were forbidden from moving to or from vacation homes outside the city, along with a number of other health and safety restrictions aimed at fighting contagion.
Forbidden from moving to a vacation home? Is this guy serious? Is this America? No, its the People’s Republic Of Chinafornia. Who the hell put this man in charge of anything?”
unenforceable edict, and one that only increases public disrespect for the law. It may come to pass very quickly that this mayor soon will have control of nothing outside of city hall and police headquarters.
I think that lesson is going to apply to many in their self imagined ivory towers.
A while back I was talking to a neighbor’s young son who had made some bad life decisions, and was then correcting them, that it was not weather or not he make mistakes that marks him as a good man but how he handles those mistakes that marks his character as a good man. The same will apply to all of us as we respond to that which is coming.
I hope that many good men are revealed.
I live in a very rural part of NE Pennsylvania. Around our AO there are many hunting cabins that only see folks in them twice a year. Once during the summer, the members of the cabin come in and get rowdy for a day or two. Then come back and do the same exercise during rifle bear or deer season.
I was out at the local Ace hardware store yesterday and as I was driving to the store there were few vehicles on the road but the few that were had out of state license plates from either New Jersey or New York.
While at the hardware store the owner and I struck up a conversation about the Kung Fu Virus. He told me business was booming thanks to all the out-of-stater’s were in town hunkering down at their hunting camps. One of the sales guys then piped up that he heard on the police scanner the day before several County Deputies had to go out to one of the camps and break up a major ruckus between two neighboring camps.
So, some of the out of state hunting camp owners are hunkering down at their camps and acting like this is a big holiday. A good time to get drunk, burn some steaks, and think about the less fortunate back home. When they get bored or hungry, they will start to wander from their camps and most likely, eventually down my 2-track township road. They may not like what they find. \”/
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California govt is setting the stage for an Iranian style die-off. As a fifth and last generation Californian who left in 1972, it grieves me to see how far California has fallen. There is virtually no time for cram-prepping. It is going to get really ugly there in that once great state, and the only way out for good folks is to give it a wide berth. I hope the good people in ranches and small towns in rural areas are all prepped up and ready to hunker down and keep the desperate groups out of their AO. Well, it is what it is. We have done our homework and now it is test time.
I happen to know about about CA and Los Angeles in particular having lived there for 25 years. I still know several cops there and have a good idea on what is really going on.
I’ll leave you with two recent news stories from each of LA’s two primary newspapers and you can do the math.
First is this: https://www.dailynews.com/2020/03/24/l-a-county-releases-1700-inmates-from-jail-early-to-prevent-coronavirus-outbreak-behind-bars/
Los Angeles County’s jails are emptying fast as sheriff’s department officials try to limit the possibility of a disastrous outbreak of coronavirus behind bars.
For almost two weeks, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he was looking for as many inmates as possible to safely release. On Tuesday, he said the number so far was 1,700 inmates, or about 10% of the county’s entire jail population.
All of those inmates had fewer than 30 days left on their sentences. And all were convicted of nonviolent misdemeanors, he said.
Don’t hate the sheriff just yet. Here also did this to address the problem he was creating and maybe a few others: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-25/sheriff-suspends-efforts-to-close-l-a-gun-stores-amid-coronavirus-restrictions
One day after announcing that gun shops were nonessential businesses that needed to close their doors amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has shelved efforts to shut them down.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva confirmed the development on Twitter early Wednesday morning, writing that department “efforts to close nonessential businesses have been suspended” and that Gov. Gavin Newsom would “determine what qualifies” as one.
Villanueva didn’t explain the rationale for the about-face in his post but linked to a Fox 11 news segment in which reporter Bill Melugin said the sheriff told him in a phone call that “the county’s top lawyer put out a legal opinion that she believes gun stores are essential businesses and should remain open.”
I don’t think any of the proponents of “bugging out” ever thought the ‘locals’ where they went would say “go the hell home”.
Nice wrinkle that. A fellow is better off spending his dough to expand and harden his own house.
conrad,
Nobody, at least to my knowledge is saying “go home” to the bugging out folks. What locals are saying is, when you are in Rome act as Romans. Leave rowdy culture back at your home in “X” state. Try to adapt to the local culture. Smart out-of-staters will blend in, the others will go nighty-night in a twinkling of an eye. Then fed to local pigs or dragged deep into the woods for nature to do its own clean-up.
Thanks for reading and commenting Brother.
Very quiet here in far North West NC where I live. However, I can see the exact same thing happening in the Apps and foothills as liberal city dwellers from CLT and RDU panic as more and more of ’em get sick. I guess we can try and isolate ourselves from the Zombie Hordes if/when they show up.
The same crap that filled up Reno, NV and turned it into a crapafornia suburb…
“Who the hell put this man in charge of anything?”
The very same people who are fleeing, of course. They voted for this kind of leadership, and now they’re going to get it, good and hard.
Getting spicey, even in very remote places;
https://www.foxnews.com/us/maine-coronavirus-armed-vigilantes-chop-down-tree-block-driveway-force-neighbor-quarantine
:A man residing on Cripple Creek Road in Vinalhaven, an island off the coast of Maine, called authorities around 3:35 p.m. Friday to report a group of people with guns had cut down a large tree and dragged it in front of his driveway, blocking access to the main road.
The man said he left his house to check his property when he noticed the cable went out. The unidentified man said he retreated to his home and hailed the Coast Guard for help using a VHF radio after a neighbor began yelling at him to get indoors and remain quarantined. he armed group had dispersed before authorities arrived. Deputies with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Maine Marine Patrol and a Coast Guard boarding party, responded to the scene. The incident remains under investigation.
“Deputies have learned that there is a general belief by some island residents that the Cripple Creek Residents are supposed to be quarantined because they came here from another state and could have COVID-19,” the Knox County Sheriff’s Office in Maine said in a Facebook post.:
So far, at least in my neck of the High Desert, I’m not seeing it. Locally, everything is humming along normally and shelves are stocked, other than our hospitals being ghostly and emergency is almost non-existent. I keep an eye on the main highway through here from down the hill and the traffic is slimmer than I have ever seen it.