Posted on 10/09/2017 7:07:09 AM PDT by exDemMom
There’s still time... our family escaped there almost twenty years ago and have never looked back.
Some people got out with just the clothes on their back.
It came up on them so fast because the wind kept changing directions every few minutes.
Very high winds
Thousands of homes are gone. Many neighborhoods in Santa ROsa and Napa have been devastated, a few completely wiped out. Money didn’t buy safety, either - two of the most exclusive million-dollar home subdivisions in Santa Rosa and Napa that were built on hillsides for the views were devastated, along with lower-income neighborhoods right in downtown in Santa Rosa ... many remote multi-million dollar ranches and vineyards have also been damaged or wiped out outright...this kind of thing is common in Southern California, but no one has seen this kind of thing around here ... yes there are occassional mountain wind-driven localized fires, but this hit overnight all over the Napa-Sonoma County mountain terrain - 40-50 mph winds caused trees to fall down on power lines sparking fires, really anything that caused sparks created a fire due to the conditions ... in parts of Nap[a Valley there was aliteral wall of flame coming down off the mountains towards the valley ... awful ... we’re in the Sacramento Valley away from the affected area but we know families that lost everything ... one woman texted us this morning that her neighbors house was on fire at 0800 AM when they fled .. sadly it looks like her entire subdivision was wiped off the map ...
Thanks for that link.
I can check directly how close the fires are to my relatives in Sonoma.
Or it could be dry lightning. It is interesting how all of these fires broke out at once.
Why did several fires start at the same time?
I believe it was just a perfect storm of conditions.
I have not heard what started all these fires....anyone know?
They’re saying Nature did it because things were so dry AND they had those awful winds, so once there was even a spark, it escalated quickly.
I also read there may have been an electrical short in a transformer or something, but they really can’t tell which happened first.
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