Rancho Bernardo Devastation

I was able to get into Rancho Bernardo on Thursday, October 25 and was able to take a bunch of photos. It is just so sad to see all the burned out homes and cars. 280 homes were lost in Rancho Bernardo alone. Below is a link to the slide show of some of the photos that I took. This area is close to my office and I wasn't able to get to work for 3 days.

I used PictureToExe for the slideshow. [Thank you Lin Evans for your guidance.] It is a rather large file [20K kb], so it will take a few minutes to download. I know this is a nature photographers site, but I felt that this was Mother Nature being upset and it happened in San Diego. That is the reason for posting in the CANP Forum.

https://menkephoto.com/uploads/Rancho_Bernardo_Photos.zip

Any recommendations/comments would be most welcome.

This might be politically incorrect to say so, but I've always felt that developers should stay out of certain areas. It's like building on the San Andreas Fault. The dangers have been occuring naturally for thousands of years in these areas, and building a home on there isn't going to change that. Until developers learn better or start to care, then this will continue to happen time and time again. This is the risk we live with by being in So Cal whether the fires are caused naturally or by arsonists.

With that said, I'm glad you came out of it okay.

I totally agree. I cannot tell you how many times that I hear people complain when something natural happens. Especially for those in the river beds and it rains and then floods. My thought is "think about it - where is your house built?"