Sad for him. I have a sister in Santa Rosa and another sister in Sonoma. Sister says waiting to hear if they have to evacuate. Sister’s husband in Sonoma has a great deal of antiques in their home, no way to transport much of it if called to evacuate - some of the stuff is from 1700s. But lives are more important. By the way, they are staunch conservatives!
Yes, there are many staunch conservatives in California...it used to be Reagan Country :( Just like where I grew up in DuPage County, IL
Wow, shame about all the antiques...Hope they are one of the fortunate ones who has a house spared. This is so much like the flooding in the South...just cannot imagine what the people are going through...Both fire and floods are very scary!!!
Indeed! Last night it was very windy. I'm in South San Francisco. Opened my patio window to check on things because the wind was blowing, and smelled a bunch of smoke. I thought it was grass burning in my neighborhood from a neighbor. Surprised the smoke came all the way from wine country. My sister and her husband live in a $2mil home on a wooded hill in Sonoma, trees everywhere. So far they're okay. But no way they can move many pieces of antiques, some of it French 1700s chairs, cabinets and tables, as well as early 1900s cameras and lamps on stands. Her husband trades in antiques, both are in their 70s. If their home goes up in flames, so does a lifetime of collecting antiques.
I don't like how some Freepers wish ill of Californians, when most of the sickos came here from elsewhere and ruined politics for all of us (like Nancy Baltimore Pelosi). Still a great many conservatives here, despite the loons around us. Was at Fleet Week festivities in SF this weekend, lots of normal people and families in evidence. Someday we'll take back California from the dems.