I live in the area where we had the Atlas fire (Napa area) and while my house didn't burn down, the entire area is still recovering from the wildfires.

Last night, there was a rock slide. It hit a car and took the car and its occupant over the side of a ravine, killing him. They were not able to remove his body from the scene until today.

I was coming back up the hill from Napa today, they had just finished using the jaws of life to remove the poor guy from the car.

There was a TV crew there, asking us how we 'felt' about driving in the area. What a question.

Anyway, I did use to kind of laugh at my mom's paranoia in driving around certain areas after it rained up here. She was worried about getting hit by a rock slide.

I take her a lot more seriously now.

That's so sad

A young classmate of my friend's daughter is missing.

a powerful waterfall.

Just heard a CBS report of a survivor who heard a faint cry in the muck. Rescue wormers pulled a baby girl out minutes later, alive.

alive - it was his family's dog.

The roads home are impassable.

They were evacuated for the fire too.

from a mountain that was burned bare. They had rain, but not a downpour. The drainage ditch along the private road to their place got plugged with mud and debris, but t hey had no flooding. Today, a backhoe crew cleared the ditch. No more rain is predicted for awhile. Lucky.

However, the risk will remain until New vegetation begins growing.