Something that I forgot to mention: In explanation of one of the signs, while CalFire did an amazing job fighting the fires, they realized that they did not have the resources, when it started to fight the fire in the Bonny Doon area. Almost all of the firefighting done in that area was by locals, breaking the law to be there to defend their houses, though they did get some help/guidance from the pros.
> On Sep 18, 2020, at 11:35 PM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dreadful stuff, Larry. How does one ever recover from that? Hopefully people > will be able to claim on insurance (depending on the fine print I suppose). People recover from this all of the time. For the past several years I have had at least one friend a year lose everything due to fires. We were incredibly fortunate that the winds were relatively calm People have been posting that various insurance companies have been sending out notices that they are declining to renew fire insurance,. > > Alan C > > On 19-Sep-20 08:14 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> A fairly large documentary, rather than artistic, set from driving around >> in the burn zones last weekend. The photos closest to my house were about >> 1.2 miles (2 klicks) straight line. >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157716027178261 >> >> When I reached the first burned areas, and realized how close they were to >> my home, it was a bit of a gut punch. One of the places I stopped, and I >> haven’t posted photos from there yet, was a friend’s house. PQ Boomer was >> one of my high school teachers who let students build a castle, and other >> fun things like a pipe organ and a guillotine, and let the students have >> weekend long water battles there. Fortunately, very little was lost, but it >> came very close to being a total loss. That realization had a bit of an >> emotional impact as well. >> >> I had permission to photograph these things that belonged to a friend. They >> were stored in a shed, and while the house didn’t burn, the shed did >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157716027442281 >> >> -- >> Larry Colen >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
