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    Thanks Bill. As of yesterday I think any immediate threats are contained, unfortunately for our Santa Rosa friends this is not the case. Crazy how fast this all started and the amount of destruction in such a short period of time. Rain suppose to come Thursday. Fingers crossed that that will help get everything extinguished. I heard yesterday something like 6000 homes and other structures lost to date.
    I definately have made changes to my emergency prep!
    We have had random stories of all kinds of acts of kindness, and have seen the community really pull together to help those not so fortunate. There have been negative things too, but not the focus of this thread!
    One friend told me of lock boxes that will take combo codes that can be bolted somewhere hidden for a hide a key(important if I'm 30 miles away at work- to get my dog out). Another is an app. for your phone that can open your garage door for someone trying to access your house.
    Also had epiphany when trying to figure what documents I'd need, that I just need to disconnect my backup hard drive and throw it into the bug out bag. This contains all digital photos and memories as well as house and tax items. Just thoughts to anyone for the future that may need some added ideas for emergency prep.
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    we have a complete backup to our computer in the lock box. just update it ! my bride has us ready to go in 5 min in case of fire. we do have them here . high wind and a bad wheel on the train and we have problems . i'm working on a better fire break around out place . thinning trees and trimming them up tractor high . last one was a little scary so it got my attention . hopefully you will get some good rain to help those fire fighters.
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    Yup Shine! In my case I cut back my neighbors over hanging trees and cleaned out my gutter. She also told me she was having her tree trimmer do a severe pruning to the fig tree that grows extremely fast near the fence line. I think it's an old wasp polinated varietal, that were mass planted in the Central valley in the early 1900's. Now days nowbody knows how to polinate these, so they drop fruit that can't rippen without the wasp( think wierd very small wasps, not the kind that plague use wipe bites!
    Most of that land is now developments, including my housing development which was an old walnut orchard. When they built the homes here in 1960, they left a lot of walnuts for shade trees and a few other old orchard trees, like a Gravenstein apple, my neighbors fig, and a few random wind blocks including redwoods!
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    I'm glad to hear you're alright but it is such a sad situation. I donated to the cause. It's the least I can do. I laugh when I hear people not from the west that want to claim they aren't in a drought. Check into how much beef is raised there now. By the west I mean from the Rockies west. I know several ranchers in many different states that have all left their ranches and moved to the Midwest to finish their careers/heards so they didn't go bankrupt staying out west. Lack of water is a real issue out there. Shoot, it even happened in Utah, Oregon, this year. Canada last year, it's not just CA!
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    redistribution of resources . fails every time .

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