Comment Re:CA - State of the self insured (Score 2) 236
I lost my home last Tuesday night in the fires. We went up to see what was left the next morning.
I was driving through a literal war zone. Homes on fire on both sides of the road. The strange part is that they burned at different times indicating to me that embers or burning debris was being tossed in the wind and when it landed, poof... by this I mean some houses down the hill were burned out while others closer to the direction the fire came from were just starting. Either way there was maybe a house per block not burned down. In a fe2 cases little pockets of 3 or so houses were ok, but I'm pretty sure they caught later in the day.
Nothing could have stopped them from burning. Nothing.
When we fled my house there were flames 50 feet high about a block away. We were only still there because we were trying to at least save a cars worth of stuff, which we didn't. 20 minutes or so from when I saw the flames come over the ridge until they were too close to stay.
We (were) on one of the streets hit first. My backyard was the mountains.