A 'potentially historic' wind event could worsen California wildfires this weekend
Source: Washington Post
A ‘potentially historic’ wind event could worsen California wildfires this weekend
By Kayla Epstein, Andrew Freedman, Faiz Siddiqui and Hannah Knowles
Oct. 26, 2019 at 7:57 p.m. EDT
David Culley was frantically packing his restaurant in Windsor, Calif., Saturday morning as his wife removed treasured photos and mementos from the walls. The evacuation order arrived late Friday night, and the small, wine-country city of was a “ghost town,” he said, with just a handful of cars parked near the usually bustling square.
Culley lost his home to the Tubbs Fire in 2017 — one of the state’s deadliest wildfires on record. Now a new inferno was bearing down on the region, and Culley feared he would lose everything. Again.
Parts of Northern California faced the prospect of new infernos and nearly a million power outages as a potentially “historic” wind event was forecast to sweep into the state on Saturday, a year after the most destructive fire in California history. Culley’s anxiety is part of a grim new reality for a state hit by increasingly dangerous fire seasons and turning to drastic new prevention measures.
The ongoing Kincade Fire, which sparked Wednesday night in Sonoma County and has already consumed more than 25,000 acres, is expected to worsen. Strong winds with low humidity will create what the National Weather Service called “extreme fire weather.”
-snip-
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/26/california-wildfires-power-outages-kincade-tick/
= new reply since forum marked as read
