[OCCASparky]

Even 200' is nothing when the winds are whipping around you at 60 mph and you've got a wood-shake roof.

Sometimes I wonder about the mentality of the average California homeowner.

[ArmstedFragg]

Those are all newer subdivisions. Wood-shake roofs have been banned around here since the BelAir fire of the fifties.

[bboop]

It is wild out here in California. Winds, EQs, forest fires, wild surf, maniac drivers, Marxists in Sacto, homeless people getting condos in San Fran. Oh, and 73 degree weather today, in December. :)