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No stopping them

  There are really only two seasons in Southern California. Wildfire season and mudslide season The yin and yang of the local weather patterns if you will. We are heading directly into the former, so let me explain. The native plants, all of whom are intimately acquainted with the semiregular Californian drought conditions bide their time in the sunshine. When the occasionally heavy rains of an El Nino year occur, the plants grow thick and tall in the steep canyons and arroyos leading to the ocean. But come summer time, months after the last measurable rainfall the stuff makes great kindling…add a touch or a torrent of dry offshore wind and wildfires burn "From the mountains to the sea". No stopping them really.

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