sides, that might have been burned in wild fires over recent month, doing everything they can, to shore up doing everything they can, to shore up those hills, so that when this vast quantity of rain comes in a relatively short space of time, that those hill sides are not vulnerable. it is a testament to our changing climate peter, because we have talked on many occasions about wild fires, droughts in the region, decades long, reductions in rainfall and now this year, we have talked about record levels of snow and now potentially a year s worth of rah inin a short period of time. how is the region responding, being able to cope with this changing climate now? well, it is perplexing to a lot of people, here we are in august, i have lived here for more than 25 year, i can t remember a year when there has been any rain in august, this is a freak event though, and you can t necessarily correlate what is happening with the course of this