Seasonal Floods (1 in 1000 year floods) are now adding to by wildfires

 The Floods may or may not give way to Wildfires now. I have been concerned especially for southern California because it is in drought. The San Luis Reservoir appears to be some sort of dividing point between where enough rain has fallen to the north of there to where less and less rain has fallen as you move southward in California. Since I tend to travel a lot between the SF Bay area and Santa Barbara I see this problem first hand especially when visiting relatives in Orange County.

When we drove past Shasta Dam for example, up near Mt. Shasta the dam was pretty full which means that possibly less wildfires will happen to the north this summer and fall even though that is no guarantee of no fires. But, to the southern part of California I'm very concerned about Fires until we get the first big rains (hopefully by September to December somewhere in there.

For example, this kind of drought often brings a fire (sometimes) to the Malibu area and they usually start around Las Virgenes Canyon Rd on the Ventura Freeway and then often these fires driven by a Santa Ana wind of 50 to 100 miles per hour drive those fires into the sea. So, often residents of Malibu have no escape except by the ocean and many go into the ocean and put wet washclothes over their faces so they can filter out the smoke. So, even if you make it into the ocean itself to avoid the fires you still have to breathe the smoke blowing out to sea.

The Pacific Palisades fire and the Eaton fire this last year also changed how people thought about fires a lot too.

The drastic changes in wind and wind speed just made those fires much worse than anything people had ever seen in Los Angeles County before, much like the 1 in 1000 year floods in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and North Carolina.

And the resulting fire insurance going up between 4 and 10 times in one year means many poorer home owners won't be able to afford fire insurance at all this year so if their home burns down they will be left with nothing.

So, whether it is floods or fire or tornadoes or even potentially earthquakes everything is changing now pretty fast on the ground almost anywhere and everywhere in the U.S. and around the world.