[TheForge] California fire

[jerry Frost]

There are a few folk I know in Cal. I'll ask around though whoever lost
their home and shop are probably offline right now. Even if they grabbed a
laptop running for it their server's probably gone tool. Middletown Cal was
almost completely burned to the ground in the firestorm.

I grew up in S. Cal and know what kind of tinderbox it is in a dry year. Few
things on earth burn like Chaparral: greasewood, Mesquite, tumbleweed,
creosote bush, etc. To survive desert conditions plants evolve the ability
to cover themselves in extremely resinous sap to keep from drying out
completely and it makes them gasoline on a stick.

I lived in the San Fernando Valley during the Bellaire/ Brentwood fires and
others. I remember watching fire storms cresting the mountains around us but
we lived safe in the suburbs, it was nothing like this. 

My prayers go out to all those in danger.

Frosty

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I hope for the best for the people near the fire. There's a news story in
the British press with lots of pictures of the devastation from the fire.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3232987/California-Gov-Jerry-Brown-d
eclares-state-emergency-wildfire.html

Scroll down to about the 38th picture and it shows a blacksmith shop burnt
up and the house is toast. I wonder if it's any one we may know?

Rob