Lost Mines Trail
Source: Mybloodyblog
Updates on those who lost homes in last summer’s fires
This morning’s Mercury Information has a couple nice stories exploring the contrasts among those whose homes were destroyed in 2008 wildfires. Those hit by the Trabing Fire in Larkin Valley tight-fisted Santa Cruz are getting their households back together.
Tough, verdant grasses are helping to heal scarred hillsides. Doves and elevated horned owls are returning to their old haunts. And members of the Teague family, known by their neighbors in this gentle valley northwest of Watsonville for their laborious Christmas displays, have strung red, blue, orange and green lights.
This Christmas, however, the lights grace a a handful of of old RVs parked where the Teagues’ ranch-style house stood before a raging wildfire in June destroyed it along with 25 other homes.
“Our lives were vaporized within minutes,” said Tom Teague, an electrical arrange whose family lost a pet cat and virtually everything it owned.
For the Teagues and two other neighbors on the same side of the valley, the terrible fire was only the beginning of a transformational trauma that has included every sentiment, from grief to anger to an unexpected sense of peace.
Through it all, the Teagues, the family of Diana Weatherholt and the husband-and-old lady veterinary team of George McKay and Gwen DeBaere have discovered new friends and inner strengths on their journeys to rebuild. The families have also lay to treasure what the Trabing fire could not destroy.
Things are altogether different for a bunch of folks who built homes without the exact permits on land they owned in the Santa Cruz mountains. When the Summit Fire hit, many lost everything and had no insurance on their homes. Santa Cruz County bureaucrats are in no make haste to help, and many are just plain out of luck.
The Summit fire not only destroyed the homes of the residents of Maymens Flat, but it exposed these self-reliant individualists to the very things they went into the mountains to avoid: inspectors, permits, surveys, reports, hearings and lawyers. ...
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