What a wonderful day to be sitting in traffic in Los Angeles, CA. I really do not understand what the draw is to this area and why people want to live here. The traffic is awful! Today I started in Southeast Los Angeles then had to drive the I-5 and I-10 to Northwest of Los Angeles in the Pacific Palisades. Then back to my hotel a near LAX. I think I ran out of curse words.
I will say that the day started off nicely when I walked out of the hotel and spotted one of my favorite flowers, the Bird of Paradise.
The insurance inspections today was one commercial Theft/Vandalism claim of an 80,000 sq foot cold storage warehouse – someone took all the copper including the refrigeration piping and the wiring. The only other thing taken was the video recorder for the surveillance system. Someone knew exactly where that was, and it was not obvious.
Second inspection was a water claim in an apartment complex. Upstairs neighbors had a pipe break and drowned the kitchen of the downstairs apartment. Not good but at least most of the HVAC did not get damaged.
Third inspection was a smoke/fire claim from the Pacific Palisades wildfire last year. That area is still in very bad shape and re-building is not going well. There is ash in everything and the smoke damage is obvious. To make matters more interesting there is a lot of “questionable” claims being made. The trick is finding out what is valid vs what is questionable. Thankfully today none of the inspections I completed were in the “questionable” category.
