On June 17, 1917 it was 115F at Santa Barbara, California, and Ojai and Carpinteria burned to the ground.
Jun 17, 1917, page 2 – The Morning Press at Newspapers.com
Jun 18, 1917, page 9 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com
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The crazies will say this time it is unprecedent because it has occurred in January. Are they correct?
I was USN in San Diego during the Laguna Mountain / Kitchen Creek fires in September -October 1970. Acrid smoke with brown and orange overcast skies as ashes fell like snow. Tropical whites uniforms turned quickly to dingy grays.
There were maybe 3 billion humans on this rock and the population bomb was entertaining the neurotics and the young who always seem to crave a reason to fear the future. Yet, reality was still in vogue as nuclear war was the existential threat to life on the planet.
So much has changed and so much remains the same.