SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Tina Chandler walks outside her home and sniffs the air. So does the fear of the monstrous winds of autumn, the kind that stoked the wildfires that destroyed her northern California neighbourhood once and, in recent days, threatened it yet again. But this “new normal” — fires of enormous size and ferocity — is making everyone edgy and causing some to flee. The ties of the Chandler family — Tina, husband Joel and their two sons and wives — also run deep here. It was physical sickness,” Bobbie Chandler, now 27, said, describing how he and his wife both vomited out the windows of their truck in response.

Source: thestar November 11, 2019 21:47 UTC