before making the decision to leave. all that started within an hour or two, and kept piling up and the water kept coming further back up the street, and just more and more. lives can t be replaced. material objects can. it s better to just replace a house and fix whatever gets damaged than to get somebody drowning over something that s avoidable. can t disagree with that. california s governor gave this update on the many problems now being tackled by the state s emergency services a little earlier. there is an old, ancient curse that loosely is translated as, may you live in interesting times. it is certainly interesting times. tornadoes, lightning strikes, i ve got cal fire worried about wildfires because of the winds, not just the tornadoes. i had a walk around emergency services, checked my phone to learn