Loading ...Hi everyone. My son and I made it out of the fire in Paradise with only the clothes on our backs, our two Yorkies, and our cat. They never even told us to evacuate, and I was glued to the emergency broadcast the whole time (when I wasn’t outside putting out spot fires)–they just kept playing the same message that certain zones were mandatory evacuation, and all the rest should wait for further updates, which never came. Many people, especially older folks, were waiting in their homes for the order that never came. Our power was cut off, phones were out. It looked like Armageddon with the blackest sky I have ever witnessed.
My son and family and I plan to start over and rebuild, although that is daunting at my age. I lost all my rare figs and fig farm, that we had just moved to this year!
My daughter has put up a gofundme page to help and it is here: