Oh, my God Brammers. That sounds utterly devastating. Not that it compares, but we had a horrendous summer here in Washington state. Hundreds of thousands of forest acres burned in the middle of the state. My daughter and I were driving to Seattle, and we could at one point see the plumes from six fires. The air here in Spokane looked worse than L.A. on a bad day in the seventies, and I lived through that too. My mom is an asthmatic on oxygen, and there was a two week period when we couldn't even take her out of the house.

Thinking of all of those affected, both people and animals, and praying you all get a break in the weather soon. And wanting to smack those politicians in this country *coughRepublicanscough* who say there is no global warming.