It was a rare sunny day. For once, the vast column of smoke from the smoldering inferno that was Southern California must be blowing in another direction. On his flight back from Mexico City this morning, he had peered through the window as the plane detoured around it, Tinseltown and its environs reduced to slag and embers. Years before, the conflict over water rights to the Colorado River had nearly exploded into civil war. Orange County residents fled their McMansions, refugees to wetter climes. The fire was still burning even now. But Northern California had been saved by a combination of
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