Fire aftermath in Santa Rosa, Calif.

dacaseguy · Dec 14, 2017

I was in Calif yesterday looking at a piece of equipment. The devastation is pretty incredible. Upscale subdivisions, $500K to 3 million dollar homes gone for as far as you can see. There is thousands of pieces of equipment and dump trucks working every where.one big contractor bought 20 million dollars of Catipiliar equipment for this clean up. 8000 houses gone. Dick

tomturkey · Dec 14, 2017

This may sound morbid and uncaring, do not read as such. The fire happened, can't undo that. But imagine the number of workers and equipment that will be required to replace all of those homes and businesses. 20 million dollars worth of equipment, he/they must think the investment will create a return on that investment. Bldg materials, wood masonry drywall concrete tile carpet all gonna see a spike in sales. California "gold" rush in 2017. As dark as the smoke and clouds were, I guess this may be the silver lining. My sympathies to all who lost their homes/businesses I'm sure insurance will not cover the physical loss and know it will not fix the emotional loss. gobble

dacaseguy · Dec 14, 2017

A lot of the problem is the underbrush and to many trees. There's a lot of folks out there that don't want anything cut. Most of these people don't even live in the area, they live in a big city somewhere else. These people file lawsuits every time some adgency wants to do some thinning or brush removal.

L.Fure · Dec 14, 2017

(quoted from post at 17:26:35 12/14/17) A lot of the problem is the underbrush and to many trees. There's a lot of folks out there that don't want anything cut. Most of these people don't even live in the area, they live in a big city somewhere else. These people file lawsuits every time some adgency wants to do some thinning or brush removal.

It gets to be a double edge sword. If you don't cut the brush you risk fires during dry seasons. If you do eliminate all the brush there in nothing to hold the soil when they get heavy rains. Then there is the risk of mud slides, and people lose their homes from that. I feel bad about families losing everything they worked for in fires like this. I wonder how many will rebuild, or just move on?

Patsdeere · Dec 14, 2017

Dang. Should have had something. I am only 30 minutes from Santa Rosa. Could have met a YTer. If you come back shout out.

s,mac · Dec 15, 2017

In our area of northern Ca. the power co. can only trim trees 4 ft. away from trees. They want to trim more but the P.U.C won't let them. The greens will file a law suit if they do. Steve

dacaseguy · Dec 16, 2017

Probably 90% will rebuild, the other 10% will move but someone else will build in their place. Land out here is a premium and most of these
were high end homes, up to 2-3 million dollar homes. Not all , but a lot of them. A lot of them are computers, driving 1-2 hours or more to work.
No place closer to live or to afford near their work. Dick

Destroked 450 · Dec 16, 2017

Hate to see people lose their homes but if I was a insurance company I'd put in the policy that if brush and under growth wasn't keep cleared away from the home, lost from fire due to that would be denied.
Let a few tree huggers have the clam denied on their high dollar homes and they'll start changing their minds. Have it happen to some of the higher ups and they'll tell the tree huggers where to go.

Ande · Dec 16, 2017

I'm sure there isn't many deplorable's like me out there, but I wouldn't wish this on anyone. Losing your home and memories, and so many things that matter, hurts to the bones.

Fire aftermath in Santa Rosa, Calif.

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