California wildfires articles
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About $1B arranged for Maui wildfire expenses
State House and Senate leaders have determined that close to $1 billion should be appropriated by the state for Maui wildfire response and recovery work through mid-2025.
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Rare, stunning formation appears over California town
On Saturday evening, Riverside County residents walked outside to take photos and videos of something they had never quite seen: a massive formation in the sky that loomed directly over their sleepy desert town, evoking images from a 1950s science-fiction novel or fantasy epic. It wasn’t a spaceship descending over Palm Desert; it was a gigantic lenticular cloud that just happened to take perfect form at sunset. According to National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Adams, the craggy...
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Are you a waterbed enthusiast in Southern California? Get in touch
The waterbed was invented by a San Francisco State University graduate student in 1969, and it quickly captured the American imagination. It soon became a symbol of the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll lifestyle for which the 1970s was famous. It hit the peak of its popularity in 1987, when one in every five mattresses sold in the U.S. was a vinyl bag that could be filled with up to 250 gallons of water. But even as waterbed design has evolved in modern times (more stability, less sloshing), these...