RECENT, 11/17/18: CNN Video Clips of California Fires

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2. As an ex-Californian, I'm pretty sure they won't

be voting for anyone who expects them to rake the state, or leaf-blow it.

My sister lives fairly near Paradise in those Sierra Nevada foothills as birds fly, long drive by car. For years she's been required to keep her ground cleared and the forest trees limbed up to I think 15 feet to remove fire "ladders" from ground fires to the canopy. Various plants that burn too fast and hot are forbidden.

Trump assumes the big problem is forest fires, and an exasperated fire official pointed out that most of the megafires aren't forest fires but in other ecosystems. I wish I remembered the terms used, but certainly shrublands and grasslands. Reminds me of a book I read long ago that described the deadly threat to early farmers of wildfire on the prairie. And of course our cities are full of fuel.

Our homeowners' insurance is going to change, but being able to insure is very important to society. Companies are not allowed by law to insure more than a certain percent in an area to protect insureds from company bankruptcy. Those laws and all actuarial numbers are going to change, and prices. As extreme climate change effects advance, what will this do to the idea of home ownership?