for a scenic drive). The scenery was beautiful, but it was steep. Yikes. Puts the Ozarks I've lived in for so long to shame. I can imagine a raging forest fire in this area, and just perhaps how devastating it would be on residents there. And proposals to reduce fire danger runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Of course, the standard clear cut or burn the undergrowth before it gets out of control stands as an option, but gee, seeing how steep this terrain, I think, leaves this option pretty well out. If anything, w/ the possibility of so many accidents w/ so much traffic already probably has presented some sort of fire dangers. I wonder how they dealt w/ those.

If they can't get ahold of this issue, then those that write insurance will not write insurance anymore (like in FL or CA). I guess in a way, this is somewhat of a good thing, that the insurance companies are forcing decisions to be made to basically (1) Build in such areas OR (2) not build, period.