My toes are frozen!

[Duck on Wheels]

You missed fires!
~T~

And rock slides They're part of the SoCal carbon cycle too -- brush growth, dry cycle, fires, wet cycle, slides, regrowth. Takes just long enough for a new "generation" to grab up the slide-emptied lots (not remembering to ask why they're empty) and rebuild. 'Course, I'm from NoCal. From my perspective anybody living in SoCal must be slightly loopy (though often in a good way).