Trainer/host of The Biggest Loser Gillian Michaels confirmed that, saying that when her home was burned down by another regularly-scheduled disastrous wildfire years ago, it took her a full year just to get the permit to...

Bulldoze the wreckage of her destroyed home.

Not to rebuild the home. That would take another gauntlet of permit approvals.

But just to secure the right to bulldoze away the ruins of her home, she had to wait a year for the blessing of California's oppressive government.