Coffey Park (Before and after)

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Parts of the idyllic suburb of Santa Rosa, California, were engulfed in flames on Monday as wildfires ravaged pieces of Northern California's wine country, 8000 people lose everything -


Here's what Coffey Park looks like on Google Earth.

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By late Monday, Coffey Park was unrecognizable.

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Parts of the idyllic suburb of Santa Rosa, California, were engulfed in flames on Monday as wildfires ravaged pieces of Northern California's wine country.

More than a dozen fires, whipped by powerful winds, blew through Napa and Sonoma valleys, known for their vineyards and wineries. The blaze torched at least 1,500 homes, businesses, and other structures. The situation is being called one of the worst firestorms in state history.

Santa Rosa was among the cities hit the hardest. The neighborhood of Coffey Park — a cluster of single-family homes two miles outside the downtown area — has largely turned to smoke and ash. These before-and-after images show the scale of the devastation

Read more - http://uk.businessinsider.com/santa-rosa-fire-coffey-park-neighborhood-2017-10?r=US&IR=T
 
I guess we are lucky in some respects we do not get fires just plenty of the wet stuff (Cumbria today) several roads are close and some unlucky home owners may get flooded but houses can be repaired they have lost everything.
 

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