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2020 in a nutshell... (Original Post) CousinIT Sep 2020 OP
Trump's America! Yavin4 Sep 2020 #1
wow... stillcool Sep 2020 #2
Wow! That photo is from a place that is about 5 miles from my house Nictuku Sep 2020 #3

Nictuku

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3. Wow! That photo is from a place that is about 5 miles from my house
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 08:49 PM
Sep 2020

That photo was taken at the Senior Center at Lake Berryessa, CA, about 5 miles from my home. We (78 year old mom, 2 dogs and 2 cats) were evacuated for a week and we went to St. Helena. Thanks to the HERO FIREFIGHTERS, my house (and rural community) were saved. The HERO FIREFIGHTERS kept the fire out of a small area that has around 200 homes. Other parts of Lake Berryessa were not so fortunate.

That Senior Center? Even though the photo looks devastating, it did not burn down, and it still stands. Again, thanks to the Firefighters. I can't thank them enough.

Many many other people lost everything. My heart cries out to them. My cousin was about 5 minutes away from losing the buildings on his ranch, but he and his son fought the fire off, and then when it looked like all was lost, it was like a miracle and the wind died down and changed direction. (the firefighters were centered around larger populated areas, like my neighborhood, leaving my cousin who refused to leave to fight the fire using his water truck and pond. His place is about a mile on a dirt road, so kind of isolated. Firefighters did come up earlier and saw he was there, not leaving, and they saw his water truck and all the other things he had done to prepare and fight it off, and they went to go help people who needed it more. So it was up to him and his teenage son (who is forever now a Man!) And they Won!

*sigh* I can not wait for 2020 to be in the rear mirror. I'm so stressed, but have a lot to be grateful for.

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