On Wednesday at the end of a post about Paloma, Jeff Masters noted the conditions were right for a Santa Ana in Southern California and a fire today.
The fire started late Thursday night at Montecito in Santa Barbara County with approximately 100 homes already consumed.
With better models to predict these events, soon your insurance company will be able to cancel your policy a week before they would have had to pay out.
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As someone once said, you can be insured against yak bites anywhere but Tibet.
Try getting wind insurance within 50 miles of the Gulf or Atlantic coast.