Last I read was 13,000 homes and businesses burnt to the ground.
so rebuild costs
13,000 usd at 1 dollar
130,000 usd at 10 dollars
1,300,000 usd at 100 dollars
13,000,000 usd at 1,000 dollars a rebuild
130,000,000 usd at 10,000 dollars a rebuild
1,300,000,000 usd at 100,000 dollars a rebuild
13,000,000,000 usd at 1,000,000 dollars a rebuild
so if every home and every business cost 1 million to fix the cost is only 13 billion
in the last two years california spent 45 billion dollars on the homeless and illegal aliens.
So the reality is 13,000 homes and businesses burnt is not as bad as tv makes it out to be.
another way to look at it is 4,000,000 people live in L.A. that is easy peasy 1,000,000 homes and businesses of which 13,000 built.
that means 13,000/1,000,000 or 1.3% which sucks but is not as bad as the tv makes it out to be.
if it were 130,000 homes and businesses burnt it would be over 130 billion
but at 13 billion it is not what you think.
Musk alone could pay of it out of pocket and still have 387,000 billion left over.
Los Angeles has. 13 billion dollar yearly budget
California has 291 billion dollar budget
USA has a 30 trillion plus dollar budget
it unfortunate this happened but it would have been a bigger problem if 130,000 homes went up in smoke.
https://www.cnn.com/us/maps-damage-los-angeles-wildfires-dg/index.html that story read 12000 but I heard 13000 on tv today