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I didn't realize it had rained in the area.  Did it provide any relief to the fires?

Yeah I remember when you were going through that.

We have some similar dangers here in Central Texas.  Super dry, never enough rain.  Hill/canyon topography that leads to channeling the fires.  But we don't have the Santa Anas which is a significant part of what drove the intensity and the spread.

Even so, back in 2011, a town near Austin named Bastrop had a huge fire that burned 32,000 acres, including almost entirely destroying one of my favorite state parks. 

Still see singed trees and fire damage when I drive through that area (bastrop). 

Yeah, we don't even go to Bastrop SP anymore.  It'll take 100 years for the growth to come back to those pine forests.

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This could get interesting indeed.

Definitely interesting. Worth keeping an eye on to see if it develops. 

IMHO I put it in the same camp right now as a lot of promising innovations/technologies that are lab-demonstrated but we don't know if or when they will be economically able to scale. Again, I come from the data storage world where it's been predicted that SSDs based on NAND flash are going to kill HDDs for about a decade and a half now (they haven't and won't IMHO), and there are always promising reports of things in the lab that are going to be the NAND flash killer, as if these technologies are right around the corner. They're all very interesting... But none have made it out of the lab yet. 

This might be the sort of thing that could be worthy of speculative investment in some of the companies that are trying to pioneer this, but because of the risk and uncertainty would be such a tiny amount of one's portfolio that even if that investment hit big, it probably still wouldn't be a "get rich" hit. 

We're finally getting new rail cars.

Very happy, is me.