After living in California mostly since 1952:

I have seen fires and earthquakes come and go most all of these years. It's sort of like if you grow up around tornadoes you kind of know what to do like go under a freeway over pass to survive one or lay in a ditch (not as good).

But, for me, I grew up with friends houses often burning down especially when I was going to junior high and High School in Glendale. Most of the houses that would burn down were mostly the more expensive ones up in the hills around Glendale, California where I lived from about 1956 until 1969. Before that I lived in Tujunga up against the mountains from 1953 to 1956 and before that Vista and El Cajon and before that Seattle from zero to 4 years of age.

So, fires have been something I have seen ongoing since about 4 or 5 years of age because fires are always happening (at least during the spring and summers in California ever since I moved here from Seattle in 1952. So, mostly fires in the old days would be on tops of hills mostly because they were able to keep the fires out of most of the cities just by sheer force of men and engines.

However, this is no longer true regarding Redding with the Carr Fire and the Santa Rosa Fire and now the Camp fire in Paradise. Now it is more likely that whole cities in the path of fires might burn down. But, remember this is something completely new caused by global warming and the dryness and the increasingly dangerous winds like Santana winds that we often get in the fall. But, they seem to be coming later and later in the year even into December now which is deadly in various ways.

First, it is deadly because of the winds and the fires and the dryness. But then, it is deadly because of the rains that also tend to come somewhere between December and January and February through March or April. And unlike some places when it rains it usually rains pretty hard in California which then creates flash flooding because we have elevations from well over 14,000 feet all the way to sea level and even below sea level in places like Death Valley as well which I believe goes down to 300 feet below sea level a couple of places.

So, now we are dealing (because of Global Climate change) with the double Deadlies of wind, fires, dryness and now rains coming down on bare land which dislodges rocks like last winter which killed 25 people in Montecito, near Santa Barbara.

This is the new "Abnormal" as Governor Brown calls it.

For example, there were 40 days of smoke in Mt. Shasta this year straight from about July 7th onwards which is basically unheard of before this year. So, we definitely now are at a new "Abnormal" for California which is extremely deadly and far far from being over as you all can now see.