Surviving the Santa Rosa Fires without the Internet
How to process disaster in the age of information
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5 min readOct 19, 2017
On Sunday night around midnight, smoke started pouring into Santa Rosa. I walked outside and recognized the smell. I’d taken a two-week camping trip through Oregon this past summer, and forest fires occupied a distinct spot on my olfactive memory shelf. I walked back inside, away from the red…
