CA-23 Before and After the Woolsey Fire 

Kinja'd!!! "Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
03/29/2019 at 19:27 • Filed to: None

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I finally got around to driving up Decker Rd (The 23 from PCH to 101) for the first time since the Woolsey Fire a few months ago. The road was in decent shape and there wasn’t much traffic so it was still a good drive. It was drastic how different it looked though. Just about every house on that road had burned and there was also a ton of new green around as well. Quite the contrast from about a year before the fire:


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Kinja'd!!! Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
03/29/2019 at 19:52

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Another difference of note is that California just officially ended the last drought on 2019/03/12 and you’re in a zone where it ended earlier than much of the state.


Kinja'd!!! CaptDale - is secretly British > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
03/29/2019 at 19:54

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Yeah that is quite the difference


Kinja'd!!! John Norris (AngryDrifter) > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
03/29/2019 at 23:11

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I drove that a fair amount in the 80's. I remember the PCH side being more like the after fire video tha n the 2018 video . It will take a while for the tall trees to grow back and overhang the road, but the 6 foot high brush will be back in 3 y ears given at least average rainfall .

It’s amazing how the grass comes in so well.


Kinja'd!!! Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > John Norris (AngryDrifter)
03/30/2019 at 11:20

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That's assuming it doesn't all burn again this coming summer. Seems to be bad every year which is the problem.