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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Np here. I live in the Bay Area and CA forest fires are the top reason I want to move back to the DMV or elsewhere on the East coast.

I don’t know enough to know if water was diverted for fish that would have helped, but I assume everyone using water and hydrants in any area would deplete the water table / water reserves. Having been near forest fires in my sister’s state (Idaho), knowing that in 2022 and 2023 about the same number of acres burned in Alaska as in CA, and knowing that Oregon, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Georgia (my parents’ home state) are all in lists of states with large numbers of wildfires, large number of acres burned, or both shows that wildfires are not a red state / blue state problem.

I’ve seen a lot of calls for people to leave / not rebuild in fire prone areas. I’ve wondered what all these people will do for housing. I’ve seen similar calls after natural disasters elsewhere. I feel like this (along with storms / weather elsewhere in country) support the argument in favor of allowing as much of the workforce to telework as possible. Our LA office is now closed indefinitely and many of our offices in other locations have been closed recently for weather. We could not have continued to work efficiently without telework, and it allows more freedom of where to live more generally. [/quote]

I agree on all points. We need to radically change the way we live, and telework is one technology that we should use more consistently!

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