On 2017-10-11 02:58:11 +0000, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> said:
> On 2017-10-11 02:36:48 +0000, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> said:
>
>> In article <2017101019142580108-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
>> Savageduck says...
>>>
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>>> On 2017-10-10 14:40:03 +0000, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> said:
>>>
>>>> In article <2YidnWye3-Z0UUHEnZ2dnUU7-fHNnZ2d@supernews.com>, Byker says...
>>>>>
>>>>> "Miloch" wrote in message news:orh3r002h2j@drn.newsguy.com...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I live along the border of Sonoma and Marin County...I actually had a
>>>>>> light layer of ash on my car this morning...the sun was orange when it
>>>>>> came up because of all the smoke.
>>>>>
>>>>> During my high school senior year in Santa Ana (1970) there was a big fire
>>>>> near Corona, about twenty miles away. The smoke cloud blotted out the sun
>>>>> and it cast a weird dark orange light on everything. It got so dark that the
>>>>> school principal announced over the PA system, "We are NOT having an eclipse
>>>>> of the sun!" When we got out of class that afternoon, everything was covered
>>>>> in ashes...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's still raging...not contained yet. Hilton Hotel in Santa Rosa gone along
>>>> with 1500 homes/building burned.
>>>>
>>>> We almost always have fires every year with Cal Fire aircraft flying overhead.
>>>>
>>>> Winds much calmer than yesterday & humidity up.
>>>
>>> I live in the hills about 13 miles west of Paso Robles in San Luis
>>> Obispo County, and last year we had to deal with the "Chimney Fire".
>>> That burned for weeks, and when it was closest to my home the air
>>> quality was so bad, going outdoors not a sane option. Visibility was
>>> very limited, and if we had to evacuate the traffic on our access roads
>>> would have been chaotic. All I can say is I am thankful that those
>>> firefighters persevered in very tough conditions.
>>> <http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1389>
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_Fire>
>>>
>>
>>
>> One of my sisters lost her house in Cobb CA to the Middletown fire in 2015.
>> Took the insurance money and bought another house in Santa Rosa...and
>> yup...these fires are only blocks away.
>>
>> Before the fires started, she and her husband took off for a two week vacation
>> in Hawaii thinking now was ideal...what the hell could possibly happen?
>>
>> We've got family members/friends trying to see if the house is still standing
>> but the police won't allow anyone in the burn areas because of hot
>> spots and gas
>> lines still burning.
>>
>> I've seen TV reporters on camera from her street but it's hard to tell if her
>> house is part of the absolute destruction of that street. We think it might
>> still be standing.
>
> Fire, hurricane, tornado, flood, or earthquake, loosing one's home is a
> traumatic even which can take years to recover from, whatever the
> cause. The wine country has taken a massive hit, as has Puerto
> Rico/VI,and all the Caribbean, The Keys, and the Texas Gulf Coast, and
> the year isn't over. We can only hope that the loss of life is limited
> and those folks can rebuild.
...er, losing, not loosing.
> Unfortunately the California economy is going to take a massive hit in
> Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino Counties, and all the way to the Oregon border,
> as quite a number of wineries have been destroyed at the peak of
> harvest time. Also in that area there are large numbers of retirees,
> particularly in the Lake County, Middletown area. This year they have a
> fire burning South of Clear Lake Oaks.
>
> Then the new California cannabis agri-business has taken a hit in these
> fires with big losses.
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Regards,
Savageduck
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