Isaias in the Atlantic and the Apple fire in California reveal the potential for disaster, as the pandemic, wildfire season, and hurricane season all line up
Filling sandbags in Miami-Dade County. Photo: AFP via Getty Images The first few months of natural disasters in the calendar year are largely confined to inland regions of the United States — flooding in the breadbasket, tornadoes in the plains and the southeast’s interior.
It began when Hurricane Isaias, downgraded to a tropical storm just after sweeping through the Bahamas, crept up the Florida coastline, closing COVID-19 testing sites in 23 counties and causing 1.1 million people in Miami-Dade County to lose electricity on Sunday. Isaias is expected to make landfall around 8 p.m.
On Saturday, as Brevard County inmates filled sandbags in central Florida in preparation for Isaias, inmate firefighters in southern California fought to quell the Apple fire, which has burned over 20,000 acres in Cherry Valley 75 miles east of Los Angeles. Already, it has displaced 7,800 Californians; as of Sunday night, it is just 12 percent contained.
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