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This spot sits on the edge of San Vicente Creek. Back in 2020, a lightning fire ignited about half a mile from here during the same lightning-siege storm that sparked many of the blazes that became the CZU Lightning Complex. That fire was put out. #CZULightningComplex #CZUwildfirehistory
This is the same tree five years ago. #CZULightningComplex
The forest understory postfire here is an impressively dense thicket of ceonothus, tan oak and redwood samplings. This used to be a very open forest with sparse vegetation, but many of the old tan oaks and some dougfir died in fire, opening up the canopy for all the new growth. #CZULightningComplex
Green dense canopy, very tall trees, blackened tree trunk of redwood trees.
Redwood canopy recovery, five years after a crown fire. 🌲🔥 #CZULightningComplex
Something I didn’t realize until after the CZU fire, watching them burn this area in wilder ranch for over 20 years, is that parks is managing a firebreak, a contingency line to protect the Westside and UCSC from a fire sweeping down the north coast. #RxFire #CZULightningComplex
Picking up this beauty tomorrow from the brilliant 📸 @jadenschaul.com - three weeks from 5th anniversary of #CZULightningComplex. This is the lightning storm and roll cloud that burned down Big Basin and much of the north coast, #SantaCruzMountains. 🌲 🔥 #MitchellsCove
Some Scotts Valley residents grumbling about #CZULightningComplex evacuation. Posted on Next Door: "So they put the fire out on 9 and we still can't return home for up to 5 days?" Answers linking to this morning's briefing.
#CZULightningComplex My AirBnB host in Felton is continuing to charge me $71 a night for studio rental through Sept 1. He said it's because he doesn't want me to have to pay the 11% transient occupancy tax. AirBnB help has not been responsive.
The quality of mercy is not strained; it droppeth as gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. Shakespeare; Merchant of Venice. #CZULightningComplex
#CZULightningComplex fire has grown much more quickly than the disastrous Tubbs fire in Santa Rosa in October 2017, and is still at 0% containment. Tubbs fire containment from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubbs_Fire
