>>wildfire
I was just going to post that. We took the niece to the airport and got caught on the wrong side if it and had to drive around. Living in the CA mountains (well, most of the state actually) in the summer is like going to Stoicism Boot Camp. "What will we do if we lose everything?"
The most active flank is an area that I have thought about skiing, but have begged off because it's a tangle of vegetation. Lots of fuel. On the other hand, the world has lost something like 20% of its sequoia trees in the last few years (and the grove in question lost six trees in a wind event last year). Thus there will likely be a lot of resources thrown at this.
After a day of unfavorable conditions, they have started up with the LATs and VLATs again (Large and Very Large Air Tanker). But there are only 200 personnel on this one so far, which is a drop in the bucket. On big fires, it seems like they don't usually start making serious headway until they get up to about 2,000 personnel. But we're only at 1,190 acres right now, so if they VLATs can hammer it until dark, maybe there's a chance they can keep it small. Most likely outcome is a significant fire for a month.
