Originally Posted by BrianBrave

Thanks to everyone for the well wishes.

I have great neighbors who keep up on the brush removal plus I live in a 1930 farmhouse made of brick with a clay roof with 20 acres of avocados behind me.

Don't let the media fool you - it's not the drought that brings the fires. In So CA the brush dies every summer and is ready to burn.

It's the very wet winter we had two years ago that makes the brush grow so big. Then it's the winds that fans the fires - we had several this year and this wind storm is real strong and just won't die down.

Lots of smoke - the house smells like a camp fire and lots of ash and branches littered about, but it will all sweep/wash up.

But living my entire life (47 years) in California, Fires, Floods, Earthquakes, Huge Surf, Riots, Michael Jackson, OJ, Brittney Spears - hey - ya just take all in stride!