Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Our area is in readiness for electricity shut down, though it's just the hills right now.  Our older son is also on alert in his area, but no shutoff yet.  Most people are complaining, but I'm all for prevention, and the places they are shutting down are dangerous places where fires have broken out before.  The good news is there is no wind right now.  It's the wind-dryness-heat combo that is lethal.  Tonight the wind might come up, but hopefully not.  We all have memories of walls of fire, being evacuated, and friends losing their homes, and in some cases, their lives.  Reading about Laura Ingalls Wilder's life, in the biography Prairie Fires, reminds me that the west is, and always has been, more desert than hospitable.  Building where history tells us fire will come is one of the man caused problems we face.  It's not entirely about climate change.  Someone needs to reign in developers so people are not living in historically fire prone areas.  Local government has never stood up to those lucrative interests, but until we take some responsibility, the danger is eminent and unrelenting.