When my wife was a cute little girl, (still cute), this area was filled.with dairy farmers and was a nice farming community. Then rich folks from other places of the state came up here and bought up the land, and went into growing grapes for wine. The soil I useless now, all of it. Grapes does not give anything back to the land. The rich has become even richer, and a basket of strawberries grown I the Central valley cost $3.99 2 or 3 years ago, and at the same time they could buy strawberries grown at the same farm here in California in Maine for $2.99. Gas now cost $4.29 here, and in 2017 it burned a lot here, I the city too. Last year it was a horrible.huge fire up north, and the fire now is filling in between those fires, and even have burned into where it burned 2 years ago. One farm burned in 2017, and again Sunday night.
Just a misery, no wonder I feel this part of the state is cursed.
Bill