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hunter

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8. I've experienced a Southern California wildfire...
Fri Aug 25, 2017, 03:59 PM
Aug 2017

... that killed all the trees on the edges of my parent's small orchard, melted the drip irrigation lines, and almost caught our neighbor's house on fire.

I think we were fortunate the power and water didn't go out that night. Firefighters were able to protect the homes most in danger, but a few outbuildings were lost.

Our chicken coop got assaulted by burning tumbleweeds and airborne embers, and some of the straw in their yard burned, but the ladies woke up the next morning and went about their business as if nothing unusual had happened.



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