yes - a very bad situation. Very strong winds in CA yesterday. I am OK, I am down on So. Cal. But I almost rented a house in those suburbs in N. California (with the fires) just a few months ago. Fortunately, I chose a different location.

Hope there are no folks here who are directly affected. It's a very tough thing to see your home burn down like that.

This incident did give me an important heads-up ... to get all the dry wood and dead grass cleared around my property. We have lots of dry grass in our rural area ... it's exactly the same fire hazard that they had in Napa and Santa Rosa. I will be working during the next week to get all the grass cut, weeds cut down, and tree branches sawed up (and stored as firewood).