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I lived in Long Beach 64 years ago, but the area is still in my mind and I worry about the fires doing more and more damage. Good report. Thanks Cliff

C R Krieger

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A sincere and hard hitting retrospective on a place clearly loved and now threatened. I know the feeling. Ran across this and felt it accompanied your piece well - https://blogspot.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=55b0d38844d0e9731ae481897&id=f812086819&e=12b4a78462

People here (I'm at my other home in France) talk about the "foehn" and everyone knows exactly what's being said - a wind originating in the Saraha blowing across the Mediterranean and reversing a winter day into Spring with often dire consequences in the high peaks.

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