Luck, the saying goes, is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
That’s good luck. What about bad luck? It’s the opposite.
Bad luck is what happens when lack of preparation meets an ongoing threat.
We’re watching this play out now as fires tragically turn large swaths of Los Angeles’ most valuable real estate to ashes, with a massive price paid, including human lives.
We’re just starting to read about dry fire hydrants caused by water shortages resulting from dumping water into the ocean to protect smelt fish. Operations budget cuts at the Los Angeles Fire Department, approval of a bloated union contract and LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley announcing diversity, equity and inclusion as a top priority. Stopping work to upgrade power lines adjacent to where fires now rage to make them fire-and-wind resistant because the work threatened an endangered…
