posted on May 22, 2008 10:06:31 AM
It's very sad. I've been waiting for this shoe to drop. We've had some really hot, windy, dry weather lately and very little rain for the last three months.
Today is a relatively cool and calm day and yet, here we go!
If it is this bad in May, I can only imagine what late summer and early fall will bring.
They have an unconfirmed report that the fire was started by a moron burning brush and leaves in his yard. I hope that's not true but if it is, I hope he is arrested before the neighbors get to him.
posted on May 22, 2008 04:54:10 PM
Then as soon as they get done rebuilding the rains will come and the new homes will slide off the bare mountainsides in the mud. Call me insensitive, but it seems like these folks never learn. There are places where houses just don't belong.
posted on May 22, 2008 05:35:30 PM
Santa Cruz is south of San Francisco. Along the coast. Above Monterey and Carmel.
The fire is in the Santa Cruz mountains close to Highway 17. Right near the epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake. It's heavily wooded with lots of nooks and crannies and very dry.
It's not too populated an area but it's populated enough to know that some will be losing everything.
posted on May 22, 2008 05:40:54 PM
If we were all required to live in areas that have never experienced such things as fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc, we would probably all be sharing one small plot of land in God only knows which corner of the US.
