I live in Ventura, so I know what you are talking about. We have also packed our car 5 times because of the fire and rain, but we were lucky that our neighborhood was spared.
However, I don't think that global warming was involved in this. My understanding is that it was a windy Monday night and a power-something broke in the wind and caused sparks in Santa Paula, and that got the fire going. If the hills had not been destroyed from that same fire above Montecito, I hear that the vegetation would have held back the mud.
We live below a cliff and we have never been worried about it coming down, until the flames burnt everything on it. But so far, our cliff has held and it is getting green again.
The whole Montecito situation is so tragic. I understand that who bodies, a teenager and a little girl have still not been found.  |
