we didn’t, though. About a third of the town’s houses burned, but after a frantic week CalFire saved the downtown, and the fire didn’t make it to our area at all. We were all evacuated for three weeks, iirc?
We talked about moving vs rebuilding during that first terrible week, and we decided to try to stay if our house made it. But we couldn’t ever relax again, and on the one-year anniversary I was like, let’s bail, you’ve always wanted to go back to the PNW. And so we sold our beautiful house to a nice family who could still find solace in a redwood forest, and we moved to the rainy Puget Sound.
Everybody thinks “wow, what a view” when they see our place. I see a straight shot, maybe a quarter mile, to run to the shore if it burns here. The meadow is beautiful, but it’s defensible space too. Both of us adults are pretty mentally scarred, but we *are* healed now, I think.
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