The minute the door opened, I felt too stunned to open my mouth, staring at her scorched and toilworn face under the glaring lamp, as if an ancient thread-bound book.
It has killed 42 people and scorched 125,000 acres -- that's bigger than the size of Atlanta, Georgia -- 6,500 homes and 260 commercial buildings have been lost to the campfire.
Because simply, the ground cannot handle that amount of rain, considering that we've got a scorched Earth and with that mountainous terrain across the region means debris flows are possible.