California Station Fire

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Lol, were they welding rocket boosters to their buses?

Our everglades are always on fire somewhere. They do a good job over here of controlling all the underbrush (especially adjacent to the highways) when it gets super dry.
 
It's now been ruled as arson. Investigation continues. (Didn't see that coming 2,000 miles away.) :rolleyes:
 
This is a few streets from me



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My house and street are still pristine somehow.
 
So, on Good Morning America they were discussing how someone in a similar looking house did not have mudslide insurance. I hope you have some, just in case.
 
I do. We bought a policy in November. We're probably out of danger given the lay of the land, but we bought one anyway so we didn't have to think twice about it. Very glad about that right now.
 
One would think "Home Insurance" would cover all of that. Nooo, you have to have flood insurance, mudslide insurance...How about "tree getting hit by lightning, simultaneously falling onto your house and catching it all on fire insurance?".
 
Glad it worked out Dan. I had a few friends lose their lives in last years Aussie bushfires, and the anniversary this weekend brought back a lot of memories. At least it can't catch fire again 👍
 
:scared: Wise move getting that insurance sorted out. It looks like you had a narrow escape - insurance or no insurance, getting hit by something like that would be seriously bad news. I hope the mudslides don't mean you have to leave the area for any length of time, and hopefully your place will stay out of their way.
 
Touring Mars
:scared: Wise move getting that insurance sorted out. It looks like you had a narrow escape - insurance or no insurance, getting hit by something like that would be seriously bad news. I hope the mudslides don't mean you have to leave the area for any length of time, and hopefully your place will stay out of their way.
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The folks at the end of our street (4 houses down) were evacuated, but our house is really not in a good place to get hit by mud. I'd love to claim that we were smart when we were shopping for the house and thought about the possibility of mud slides and forest fires, but really we just got lucky. We have some neighbors that are losing a lot of sleep (it's supposed to rain again tonight) over this, folks who are downhill from the street, and on a street that's a straight downhill shot from a muddy hill. Not good.

We got the flood insurance so that we wouldn't have to think twice about any of this. But it's impressive to me how much difference it can make being only a few houses away.

All that being said, it's not like we're clearly out of danger. There's still a possibility of a mud slide getting us (otherwise we wouldn't have bought the insurance). I just think it's fairly marginal. If something did get us, it would also get about 50 other houses. Compared to most people in southern california though, we're on the front lines of this one.
 
Eric.
One would think "Home Insurance" would cover all of that. Nooo, you have to have flood insurance, mudslide insurance...How about "tree getting hit by lightning, simultaneously falling onto your house and catching it all on fire insurance?".
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Definitely GTP: Awards 2010's best quote nomination!!!
 

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