On Friday, the storied coastal road had dissolved into a river of mud and debris after a powerful rainstorm sent those burned ...
California is a living laboratory for the observation that demography is destiny, first uttered by the 19th century French philosopher Auguste Comte.
Debris flows brought on by the strongest atmospheric river of the season swept a car off a southern California highway and into the ocean and left roads submerged in sludge.
Even as I urged them to leave, from my home in the Mojave Desert, I was moved by a different compulsion: to get in my car, report to work and rush, via fire engine or helicopter, toward the fires. It ...