Any Comments from the Philosopher-in-Chief on California's Current Disaster?

Ten people have died in northern California after what officials are describing as an “unprecedented” wild fire that has already destroyed 1,500 structures and devastated large swaths of wine country.

  The Guardian

That seems like a very high number of people to die in a wildfire these days.

Nine of the deaths occurred in Napa and Sonoma counties, while another was farther north, in Mendocino county, officials said.

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California’s governor, Jerry Brown, has declared a state of emergency in eight mostly northern counties – Butte, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Orange, Sonoma and Yuba counties. The flames are barely contained and are threatening thousands of homes and vineyards in the wine country north of San Francisco.

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Around 20,000 people have been evacuated, including hundreds of senior citizens from local nursing homes.

Entire neighborhoods and a trailer park in the town of Santa Rosa, 55 miles from San Francisco, have already been razed, along with a Hilton hotel, according to local reports.

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Another Cal Fire spokesperson, Heather Williams, said that 17 major fires had started in the past 24 hours [...] , burning about 94,000 acres, mostly in the northern part of the state. Of those fires, only two are even partly contained, she said; one at just 10% and another at 25%.

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The high number of fatalities in one series of connected fires is unusual. There have been, on average, 13 wildfire fatalities a year in the whole of the United States since 2014, according to figures collated by the National Interagency Fire Center.

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Head, the Cal Fire captain, said the fires were probably linked to a warming climate. “It has been hotter, it has been drier, our fire seasons have been longer, fires are burning more intensely, which is a direct correlation to the climate changing,” she said.

That's just a hoax, right Philosopher-in-Chief?

The fire’s economic impact is not yet known – the hundreds of wineries in Napa and Sonoma valleys are their lifeblood. Wine Spectator magazine said that two wineries – Signorello Estate Winery and Paradise Ridge Winery – were destroyed and that portions of another, Stags’ Leap, were also burned.

Although most of this year’s grapes have been harvested, the remaining 20% are some of the most valuable, said Jennifer Putnam, executive director of Napa Valley Grapegrowers, the Napa Valley vineyard trade association. “It’s some of the best fruit that Napa produces, all of the cabernet sauvignon, so it will have a major economic impact if this last 20% can’t be picked,” she said. “We will have to see where we are tomorrow and next week to see how the grapes are metabolizing all this smoke.”

New wine labels: Smokey Cabernet. Or something like. Cost a fortune. Bet.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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