On 2014-12-18, Danny D. wrote:

Everything here on the mountain is destined to be washed into
the San Francisco Bay, over time. It's natural. Fire or not.
Landscaping or not. Re-vegetation or not.

Bingo!

CA is destined to burn/drought/rain/flood, over and over again.
That's its natural state. That our species thinks it can control
these forces w/o consequence will eventually lead to our demise.

nb