I have lived in So CA for 40 years, but until 2003 I had never seen such devastation as with the fires 4 years ago and this weekend. I know we're in the middle of a drought, but I don't know what has changed to make the fires so much bigger and more destructive. Too many people living in the back-country maybe?
Yes CaliKid, too many people living in the country.
I've lived here in Diego for 71 years. I have never seen a fire this bad before................ I'm am completely devasted by this. We been told, we've been warned but all of our mountains and back countgry are now filled with new homes, condo's. This is something, combined with the weather, the temperature, the Santa Ana Winds that was waiting to happen!
When I was little girl Poway was just full of farms. Rancho Bernado didn't exist! . That area was mostly occupied by cows. Yep, cows. Nice sweet cows that just mooed~
Years ago, when we went to Los Angeles from San Diego, all you ever saw on the side of the road were Orange Grove after orange grove.
. Dad own a 1936 Chevy, I thought is was soooooooooooo cool to see rows and rows of orange trees. In those days' we never have frozen orange juice, frozen anything for that matter, and dad always bought a whole orange box full of them. We squezzed them by hand. Nothing electric in those day.
My best friend, whose name was Friendly Barstow,............her mom made the best bedside table's out of orange crates... where Friendly could store her clothes.
This was during the 2nd WW. and nobody we knew had very much money.
It was honestly right after the depression.
Okay, I've lived in San Diego for 71 years. I still love San Diego.......but I HATE the growth. I hate driving to Los Angeles, never seeing a hill.........a plain, an old orange grove that hasn't been changed into a housing development.
If we in San Diego had had this horrible raging fire 60 or 70 yrs. ago, there were had been very few evacuations, very few houses burned............because we didn't have the same landscape. Just hills, no houses.
The number of homes destroyed, the families who lost most or all of what they had , the thousands of people staying at refugee centers,...... This is 2007 and we have overbuilt here in California and not only overbuilt but our infrastructure is rotting. It's really as simple as this. Pot holes, sink holes and landslides. WHAT has happened to America?
As I post, Del Mar and Solana Beach are being evacuated. That's 10 min from my house and really hits home.
I lived on the beach in Del Mar. My kids went to Torrey Pines High School. This is just absolutely crazy~
xxxoooooo
mama
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