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We smelled smoke Wednesday night and closed all the windows even though it had been over 95° during the day and the house was stuffy. Thursday the late morning light was an acid yellow giving everything an apocryphal glow but, by noon, the sky was blue and the world seemed normal. The same offshore winds – slight breezes, really – that pushed the smoke into the greater Bay Area pushed just enough clean air over the ridge behind us to keep our area clear. Our To-go Bags remain dumped by the front door but the evacuations are not very close.

When I went to collage in Southern California in the 50s/60s there were fires in the San Gabriel Mountains every summer. It is not one of Southern California’s best attributes and now it is happening here. The fire nearest us is poetically named the CZU Lightning Complex and it is raging through the brushland and dense redwood forests south of us but now fires are everywhere. It is the State’s new normal. According Gov. Gavin Newsom, California now has about two dozen large complex fires with a total of 560 individual fires. The old growth Redwoods will probably survive, at least short term, they have evolved for this, but we haven’t. And we haven’t planned for this either as this year’s close to a thousand burned homes shows.

Most people don’t live in wildland-urban interface paradise like most of the owners of the burned homes did, but everybody is being affected by the changing climate. This season, derechos – dāˈrāˌCHō, a line of intense, widespread, and fast-moving windstorms and sometimes thunderstorms that moves across a great distance and is characterized by damaging winds (for those of you that, like me, haven’t heard the word before) – have churned through Kansas and Iowa and even parts of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana causing billions of dollars of damage and leaving close to a million people without power. Not one, but two tropical storms, Laura and Marcos, are headed toward the gulf coast. Michele and I live in a paradise, a second growth Redwood forest – the first growth went into the wonderful Victorians in San Francisco – in the wildland-urban interface that is similar to the areas being evacuated, similar to the areas that have burned, similar to burned-out Paradise, California.