I am from Napa, terrible winds and wildfires

[John_Cillis 2,406]

14 hours ago, Matthew Kane said:

Was reading about the couple that survived 6 hours overnight in the neighbours pool as the fire swept through the area, very very lucky to survive, and what a scary ordeal

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/97876793/couple-survives-six-hours-in-pool-as-california-fires-burn-everything-to-ground

Yes, still a lot of people missing from the fires.  People are returning to where they used to live now to survey damage.  It could have been a lot worse, because the fires swept thru areas where there were thousands of homes.  It will be a bad autumn for the wineries and tourism in the area but the hotels will have some revenue from taking in displaced people, as my hotel did during the 1986 Napa great flood, which took out several thousand homes.  Thank goodness for aviation's air tanker support, it makes a big difference in saving homes and lives.

John