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Related: About this forumBefore & After: How the vineyards acted as a firebreak in some areas.
Artesa winery is open and running again, so I drove up today to catch a photo from a vantage point I used a couple of years ago:
94* out here again today. Really thankful we got a good downpour of rain last week.
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mnhtnbb
(31,320 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)It was the last day of January, this year. I remembered it being longer ago than that.
mnhtnbb
(31,320 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)We had a very wet winter and spring.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)everything on those hills burned except the vineyards.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)last year...even more than the predicted deluge of the El Nino the winter before. It caused so much new growth which eventually fueled the current fire season.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)In NorCal, anyway.
It was 94* here today, and hotter down your way.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)and SDG&E cut off power to the areas where the Santa Ana's were blowing the hardest to prevent sparks from causing fires. It is like a blow dryer outside. My classroom would often be 90+ degrees and I had to water mist my 6 year olds like they were house plants.