>> COMING UP ON HEADLINE HUMBOLDT THE COMBINATION OF RECENT OTHER QUAKES WITH THE STORM LAST WEEK HAS PUSHED THE RIO DELL SEWAGE SYSTEM TO THE BRINK.

WE'LL HAVE RECOVERY EFFORTS COMING UP NEXT.

NEXT WE TALK TO MICHAEL KAUFFMAN WITH THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS COED IDENTIFIED BY JASON GARWOOD.

COMING UP NOW ON HEADLINE HUMBOLDT.

FROM THE TOP OF THE HUMBOLDT HILL.

I'M JAMES FAULK THANKS FOR JOINING US.

OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS NATURE HAS FLEXED HER MUSCLES.

I'VE BEEN READING A LOT ABOUT ENTROPY THE SCIENTIFIC THAT THE ONGOING BETWEEN ORDER AND CHAOS.

AS A SPECIES AND WE'RE FOREVER SUSPENDED IN UN CONTAINABLE DESCENT TO THE EVENTUAL HEALTH DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE.

ON THAT JOURNEY NATURE IS ALLOWED TO DELIVER COMPLAU CALCULATED SYSTEMS IN THIS PROCESS.

OUR WORLD AND THE MIC-KEY WAY GALAXY AND MORE.

BUT RATHER ONE MORE TOOL TOWARDS ITS EXECUTION.

WE SHOULDN'T TAKE THE DISRUPTION THE PAST TWO WEEKS PERSONALLY.

AND PARTICIPATE IN AN EFFORT IS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN ALL OF US.

IF WE CAN COULD TRANSLATE INTO FEDERAL EMERGENCY AID.

TONIGHT WE TALK TO A MAN HOW THE POWER OF NATURE HAS SHAPED THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS.

HIS BOOK THE CLM OTHER MOUP TONS.

STAY TUNED FOR AN UPDATE HOW THE NORTH COAST IS HANDLING THIS RECENT AVENUE LAUNCH OF DISASTERS WITH SECOND SUPERVISOR MICHELLE BUSHNELL.

MICHAEL KAUFFMAN OWNER OF BACKCOUNTRY PRESS JOINS US NOW.

WE'RE HERE WITH MICHAEL KAUFFMAN AUTHOR OF A NEW BOOK.

HIS BOOK IS KLAMATH MOUNTAINS A NATURAL HISTORY, AND IT IS A BEAUTIFUL VOLUME.

LOTS OF GREAT MATERIAL A LOT OF REALLY FANTASTIC GRAPHICS AND MAPS AND EVERYTHING YOU COULD POSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND OR LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS.

THANK YOU MICHAEL FOR COMING IN.

THANKS FOR HAVING ME.

IT'S SORT OF A THROWBACK.

PEOPLE ALL OF LEOPOLD THEY PACK AROUND THE MOUNTAINS AND DRAW PICTURES.

WHAT A NATURAL HISTORY IS AND WHAT DISTINGUISHES THE FROM OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS.

I'VE BEEN FASCINATED WITH NATURAL HISTORIES.

SO IN CALIFORNIA, THE SYRIA NEVADA NATURAL HISTORY.

THAT'S WHERE I FIRST LEARNED ABOUT NATURAL HISTORY.

THERE'S A DEFINABLE BOUNDARY.

IT'S THE SCRENETIC ROCK.

THAT STARTED TO BE DEFINED BY SCIENTISTS.

THAT'S REALLY HOW I GOT TO KNOW CALIFORNIA IN A LOT OF WAYS.

WAS FROM THE HISTORY FOR THE SIERRA NEVADA.

AND THEY HAVE A UNIQUE CLIMATE.

WE'RE WET ON THE COAST AND THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS DRY OUT TOWARDS THE GREAT BASIN DESERT.

IN THE SOUTH IT'S A LITTLE BIT DRIER THAN THE NORTH.

THERE'S ALL THESE GRADIENTS OF CLIMATE THAT ALLOWED US TO DEFINE AND WRITE THIS NATURAL HISTORY.

I THINK WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT NATURAL HISTORIES.

IT'S A "LOVE STORY."

IT'S ABOUT FALLING IN LOVE WITH AN PLACE AND PRACTICING AN ATTENTIVENESS AND RECEPTIVENESS TO THE WORLD.

>> LIKE IT'S NOT GOING AND STUDYING THE PLACE.

IT'S BECOMING A PART OF IT.

>> EXACTLY.

I THINK WHY THAT'S IMPORTANT WITH FALLING IN LOVE WITH A PLACE.

LOVE ISN'T SOMETHING WE TALK ABOUT IN SCIENCE.

BETTER UNDERSTANDINGS.

BETTER ABILITIES TO TELL STORIES ABOUT PLACES, AND BETTER STEWARDSHIP FOR A REGION AND MORE PEOPLE CARING.

THAT'S WAS JUSTIN AND I'S GOAL WITH THIS BOOK.

TO TELL THESE STORIES.

JUSTIN CAME TOGETHER ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO.

HE HAD A LITTLE WINTER GATHERING.

WE CAME TOGETHER AND TOLD STORIES OF THE SUMMER AND I HAD THIS OUTLINE AND I HANDED IT OUT TO EVERYBODY.

AND SAID I WANTED TO WRITE A NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS.

>> HOW DID YOU CONCEIVE OF IT IN THE VERY BEGINNING.

>> WHAT WAS YOUR LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

>> SURE.

I HAVE TO ADMIT I LEANED ON OTHER NATURAL HISTORIES AND HOW THEY'VE OUTLINED THEM.

IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO INCLUDE INDIGENOUS HISTORY AND CULTURAL HISTORY.

THAT I THINK WHAT SETS THIS NATURAL FLISS OTHERS THAT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN.

WE INCLUDED INDIGENOUS AUTHORS.

>> THERE'S 34 AUTHORS.

>> A LOT OF ESSAYS AND CHAPTERS.

IT'S 14 CHAPTERS RANGING FROM CLIMATE TO GEOLOGY TO PLANET COMMUNITIES.

AND FIRST PEOPLES AND THAT'S HOW WE START THE BOOK WITH THE FIRST PEOPLES.

WE SET THE BASELINE OF THE STORYTELLING THAT'S COME FROM THE FIRST PEOPLES AUTHORS AND HOW THAT'S LED INTO OUR WESTERN SCIENCE UNDERSTANDING AND HOUTHI TRADITIONALLY AND ECOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING BRING US TO HERE.

>> THERE'S MORE THAN ONE TRIBE FROM THE KLAMATH REGION.

>> THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT TRICKY.

>> SURE.

>> IT WAS HEAVY ON THE WHO PAW PERSPECTIVE.

THESE ARE THE CONNECTIONS I HAVE.

BUT WE DID THE RESEARCH AND WE INCORPORATED STORIES FROM OTHER TRIBES AND ACROSS-THE-BOARD AS BEST AS WE COULD.

>> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT KLAMATH HAS BEEN IN THE NEWS IS SALMON.

HOW MUCH DOES THAT MAKE IN YOUR BOOK.

IS THAT PART YOU ARE WHAT YOU LOOKED AT IS THE DAMAGE TO THIS.

>> THERE'S TWO PIECES UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE CLM OTHER.

THERE'S THE KLAMATH RIVER WATERSHED.

WHICH IS HUGE.

BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THE KLAMATH RIVER CUTS THROUGH THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS.

THAT'S UNUSUAL IN MOUNTAIN RANGES TO HAVE A RIVER THAT FLOWS THROUGH A MOUNTAIN RANGE.

WHAT THAT MEANS THAT THE RIVER IS SUPER OLD AND BUT THE MOUNTAINS ARE OLD.

SO AS THE MOUNTAINS HAVE RISEN THE WATER HAS MADE ITS WAY.

>> THERE ARE ACTUALLY NO DAMS IN THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS BUT THE JUST ABOVE OR OUTSIDE OF THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS.

ONCE THOSE DAMS ARE REMOVED THE ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES WITHIN THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS AND WITHIN THE KLAMATH RIVER WATERSHED COMBINED WILL BE JUST THIS OUTSTANDING AND AMAZING FOR THE CULTURES BUT ALSO THE ENVIRONMENT.

>> YEAH.

NOW, WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS IN TERMS OF A BIOREGION.

WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK PARTICULAR SPECIAL IN THIS SUBJECT.

>> THESE ARE THE STORIES THE STORYTELLING TO DEVELOP THE LOVE OF THE PLACE.

IT BEGAN WITH THE CONIFERS.

AND I WROTE A BOOK AT CAL PALO.

IT'S CALLED CONIFER COUNTRY.

AND WE HEAR IN NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA HAVE SOME THE MOST DIVERSE TEMPERATE CONIFER FOREST.

THAT HAS THE MOST CONIFER DIVERSITY IN THE WORLD.

IT'S NOT TEMPERATE.

WE'VE GOT THIS EXCEPTIONAL CONIFER FOREST.

I STARTED TO EXPLORE THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS AND THOUGHT THAT I KNEW MY TREES PRETTY WELL AND I WAS DUMBFOUNDED AND CONFUSED.

THAT LED TO THIS JOURNEY OF A MASTERS DEGREE WITH CAL PAL'S EXPLORING THE CONIFER DIVERSITY.

WHAT'S INTERESTING WITH THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS WE'RE AT A CROSSROADS.

WE'RE AT THE NORTHERN EXTENT OF THE CALIFORNIA PROVINCE.

AND WE HAVE INFLUENCE FROM THE GREAT BASIN DESERT.

SO THIS MIXING AND MELTING OF DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS THAT MAKES IT SO UNIQUE.

WITH 32 SPECIES OF CONIFERS YOU CAN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THAT MIXING.

WE HAVE AN ENDEMIC CONIFER CALLED THE BREWER SPRUCE.

WE KNOW THE STORIES ABOUT THE REDWOODS.

THAT WAS MY FIRST SORT OF WINDOW INTO THE AMAZING NATURE AND DIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY OF THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS.

BUT THE STORIES GO FROM THERE.

THE AMPHIBIANS.

SALAMANDERS ONLY SECOND TO THE APPEAR LATCH 81 MOUNTAINS.

25 SPECIES OF SALAMANDERS.

IN THE STORIES GO ON AND ON.

WE'VE INCLUDED -- >> WE DID A STORY ON THAT.

>> IT'S AMAZING.

ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALK ABOUT IS THE LACK THE KAW DECLINE IN BIODIVERSITY.

AND HOW HAS THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS FARED IN THAT REGARD.

ARE THERE WARNING SIGNS THAT THERE ARE SERIOUS PROBLEMS.

HAS IT MAINTAINED ITS HEALTH THROUGHOUT THE PRESSURE.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT KLAMATH MOUNTAINS OVER DEEP TIME IT'S BEEN A REF UCHLT GIA.

OBVIOUSLY THE CLIMATE HAS CHANGED OVER THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH.

THERE'S BEEN WIDE GLACIAL EVENTS, AND I TALKED ABOUT THE CROSSROADS AND WHERE THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS ARE.

BECAUSE WHERE THEY ARE THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO BUFFER.

I SHOULDN'T SAY ALWAYS.

THEY BUFFERED BACK THE CLIMATE CHANGES SO WELL.

CONIFERS ARE OLDER THAN DINOSAURS.

THEY'VE BEEN AROUND FOR 300 MILLION YEARS, AND THEY HAVE SURVIVED THESE SHIFTS IN THE CLIMATE.

WITH THOSE SHIFTS GLACIAL EVENTS HAVE COME SOUTH.

TREES HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SURVIVE.

OVER DEEP TIME THINGS HAVE FOUND THE KLAMATH.

THEY'VE ENJOYED THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS AND THEY'VE STAYED HERE.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR CURRENT CLIMATE CHANGES EVENTS AND SHIFTS.

IN GENERAL I FEEL ABOUT THE KLAMATH CONTINUING TO BE THE BUFFER.

OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE UNFORESEEN.

LIKE THESE MASSIVE WILDFIRES.

I HAVE RESEARCHED SEVERAL TREE SPECIES AND DISTRIBUTIONS WITH THE FOREST SERVICE AND WORKED TOGETHER TO UNDERSTAND THOSE DISTRIBUTIONS AND SET OF CONIFERS.

OH THEY'RE GOING TO BE FINE ON THESE NORTH FACING SLOPES TUCKED WHERE THERE USED TO BE SMALL GLACIERS.

IT'S BEEN SMALL-SCALE AT THIS POINT.

SO THE SHORT ANSWER IS THAT THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS IS STILL AND I THINK WILL CONTINUE TO BE A REFUGE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE.

BUT WE ALWAYS HAVE TO KEEP ADJUSTING OUR UNDERSTANDING.

>> YOU'RE AN EDUCATOR AND YOU'RE ALSO A PARENT.

YOU MENTIONED THIS FOCUS ON PLACE.

I THINK THAT YOU CAN SEE IT IN MODERN URBAN PLANNING WE'VE GOT THIS MONDAY CULTURE THING GOING ON IN OUR SOCIETY.

I THINK TO BREAKTHROUGH THAT AND MAKE PEOPLE TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO NATURE.

HOW IMPORTANT DO YOU THINK IS FOR THAT TO OCCUR AND HOW WOULD YOU ENCOURAGE PEOPLE IN THEIR OWN MINDS TO EXPERIENCED PLACE ON A DEEPER LEVEL RATHER THAN PASSING THROUGH ON YOUR WAY TO WORK.

>> THAT'S MY TOP LEVEL GOAL TO INVITE PEOPLE TO THE NATURAL WORLD.

I'VE BEEN EDUCATOR SINCE I LEFT COLLEGE IN 1996.

I'VE FOCUSED ON CLIMATE AND NATURE EDUCATION.

IT'S ALWAYS BEEN MY GOAL TO GET KIDS OUTSIDE.

SO YOU KNOW THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT RESOURCES IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY.

THERE'S DYNAMIC TEACHERS THAT TAKE STUDENTS ON FIELD TRIPS.

TEACHERS ARE USING OUR CURRICULUM TO DEVELOP THAT LOVE OF THE REDWOODS THAT THE SENSE OF THE REDWOODS.

AS A WHOLE, AS A COMMUNITY WE'RE REALLY LUCKY IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY BECAUSE WE DO HAVE NATURE AT OUR FINGERTIPS.

THE NEXT BOOK IS FIRST HUMBOLDT.

AND WE'RE WORKING WITH ANOTHER LOCAL AUTHOR.

WE'VE WORKED IN SCAVENGER HUNTS.

IT'S GOING TO BE FREE FOR FIRST HUMBOLDT.

THAT MIGHT BE A GREAT FIRST STEP.

REACHING OUT TO ME.

I'VE GOT A LOT OF THE OTHER RESOURCES AND EXCITING LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES IN NATURE.

>> NOW WE HAVE A COUPLE OF MINUTES LEFT.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PARTNERSHIP WITH JUSTIN.

>> OH MAN.

IT'S BEEN ONE OF THE BEST BONDING EXPERIENCES WORKING WITH THIS GUY.

HE AND I WERE ON SIMILAR GOALS AND PATHS FOR THIS.

HE'S A MUCH MORE RIGOROUS SCIENTIST THAN ME.

HE DIGS INTO THE DATA AND GRAPHS HE'S BEEN ABLE TO CREATE IN HERE.

I THINK WHAT I DO TO BALANCE THAT I'M ABLE TO SCIENCE IS INTERESTING.

SCIENTIST THAT MAKE AMAZING STKOFRS BUT THEY HAVE A HARD TIME TO CONVEYING TO THE PUBLIC.

I'M A SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR.

I'VE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE SCIENTIFIC PAPERS AND CREATE MORE ACCESSIBLE GRAPHICS.

AND WHAT THE PATTERNS IN THE MOUNTAINS LOOK LIKE.

THAT'S BASED ON THE SEDIMENT CORES.

CHRISTIE BROWN SHE'S DUG INTO THE CORES OF THE AND SHE'S DIGS INTO THAT AND SHE CAN SEE THOSE PAULIN GRAINS AND THE SCHIFFS IN THE PLANT COMMUNITIES OVER THE TWELVE THOUSAND.

I TOOK THAT AND TURNED IT INTO AN ARTISTIC DRAWING.

>> WITH THAT BALANCE OF SCIENCE WITH JUSTIN AND THE COMMUNICATION FROM ME I JUST FEEL IT WAS THE PERFECT RELATIONSHIP TO MAKE THIS IN MY OPINION ONE OF THE BEST NATURAL HISTORIES EVER WRITTEN.

>> WE HAVE A MINUTE LEFT.

IT'S THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS A NATURAL HISTORY.

IT'S WRITTEN BY MICHAEL KAUFFMAN AND JAMES GARWOOD.

>> OBVIOUSLY WE WANT TO SUPPORT BOOKSTORES.

THEY'RE ALL IN THE BOOKSTORES.

AND ONLINE AT BACKCOUNTRY PRESS.com.

>> I APPRECIATE IT.

IT'S A PLEASURE TO TALK TO YOU.

WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK AFTER THIS SHORT BREAK.

THE KNOLL KOETION HAS BEEN PUMMELED BY A STRONG STORM THAT TOPPLED TREES AND POWER LINES.

ACCORDING TO PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY OUTAGES HAVE HAPPENED ACROSS THE REGION.

AS EMERGENCY CREWS WORK TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE.

AT ONE STORM CLOSED SEVERAL ROADWAYS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY INCLUDING 101.

A STRETCH OF MOBILE HOMES AND RV PARKS MAY NOT SEE THEIR POWER RAW TOWARD UNTIL LATER THIS MONTH.

MOST OF THE OTHER OUTAGES HAVE BEEN FIXED AND ARE LIKELY TO BE REPAIRED BY SATURDAY.

THE TOWN OF RIO DELL ALREADY REELING FROM THE RECENT EARTHQUAKES THAT LEFT RESIDENTS WITHOUT SAFE HOMES TO LIVE IN.

AFTER A HEAVY STORM HIT HUMBOLDT COUNTY.

IN CONFIRMED THE HEADLINE HUMBOLDT MICHELLE BUSHNELL HEAVY RAINFALL INFILTRATED WATER PIPES.

THE SPILL WAS MOSTLY MADE UP OF STORMWATER AND NOT UNTREATED SEWAGE.

THEY HAVE NOTIFIED THE CALIFORNIA EMERGENCY SERVICES OF THE SPILL.

MORE IN IN IS THE POTENTIAL OF ON THE IMPACT ON THE RIVER.

ARE MADE OF CONCRETE OF ARE PRONE TO BREAK IN VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES.

THE CITY HAS BEFORE THE STATE WATER BOARD TO REPLACE THAT PIPING.

STILL REMAINS.

DESPITE THE HEAVY DAMAGES KEEPING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES IN RIO DELL HUMBOLDT COUNTY WILL NOT SEE EMERGENCY FUNDING.

THE TOTAL LOSS SUFFERED IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY DOES NOT MEET THE THRESHOLD FOR FEDERAL DISASTER AID TO KICK IN.

WE SPOKE TO BUSH NELL AS SHE WORKED TIRELESSLY TO MAKE SURE THAT THE NEEDS OF HER CONSTITUENTS WERE BEING MET.

>> OKAY.

HI EVERYBODY.

THANKS FOR HAVING ME.

RIO DELL PARTICULARLY IT HAD TWO VERY TRAUMATIC EARTHQUAKES THAT AFFECTED A LOT OF THE HOUSING THE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE THE SEWER INFRASTRUCTURE.

SO THERE ARE CURRENTLY AROUND 74 RED TAGGED HOMES AND 102 YELLOW TAGGED HOMES WHICH HAVE ENTRY OR PRECAUTIONARY ENTRY.

THE COUNTY HAS SET UP A JIG LINE 4-1-1-1000.

THEY ARE RECOVERING AND TRYING TO DO THE BEST THEY CAN AND TRYING TO IDENTIFY YOU KNOW HOUSES THAT COULD BE EASY FIXES AND TRY TO GET THOSE PEOPLE BACK IN TO THEIR HOMES OF COURSE WITHOUT HAVING A FEMA LEVEL DISASTER.

THE MONEY IS ALWAYS AN ISSUE.

>> SO IS THAT A PROCESS THAT YOU ARE UNDERGOING TO GET THAT FEMA DECLARATION.

NO, IT DOESN'T SEEM WE'RE GOING TO REACH FMA DISASTER LEVELS.

IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

>> IT'S A MATTER OF LOSS.

>> IT IS A MATTER OF LOSS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.

IN ANY DISASTER COUNTY THE LOSSES ARE COUNTED BY COUNTY NOT BY JURISDICTION.

SO WE HAVEN'T REACHED THAT THRESHOLD AND DON'T ANTICIPATE WE WILL.

>> OKAY.

WE HAD THE MAJOR EARTH QUAKE FIRST AND THEN WE HAD A AFTERSHOCK AFTERWARDS.

CAN YOU FWAUCK HOW THAT EXACERBATED.

>> AND IN THE SECOND EARTHQUAKE IT WAS NEW YEAR'S DAY SHOOK NORTH TO SOUTH AND SO THERE SEEMED TO BE MORE DAMAGE IN THE RIO DELL AREA ON THE SECOND EARTHQUAKE WITH THE NORTH TO SOUTH SHAKING.

WE ACTUALLY THEY ACTUALLY LOST MORE HOMES OR HAVE HOMES RED TAGGED FROM THE SECOND QUAKE.

AS YOU KNOW PROBABLY LAST NIGHT WE HAD ANOTHER 4 CLOCK WE HAD ANOTHER AFTERSHOCK A 3.5 THAT WAS CENTERED TOWARDS THE EUREKA AREA.

THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ANY DAMAGE FROM THAT.

>> IT SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE BIT OF A SEWAGE SYSTEM ISSUE WITH TAINTED WATER COMING OUT OF MANHOLE COVERS.

CAN YOU INFORM ON WHAT THE SITUATION.

>> YES THEY DID HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A SEWAGE ISSUE.

THEY REACHED OUT TO RYAN DERBY TO GET STAFF DOWN THERE.

THE THING THEIR STAFF HAVE BEEN WORKING 20 DAYS AROUND-THE-CLOCK AND THEY'RE EXHAUSTED.

THEY HUMBOLDT WATER CAME DOWN AND ARE HELPING THEM.

I THINK THAT THE ISSUE IS TAKEN CARE OF AS OF YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

BUT I HAVEN'T CHECKED THIS MORNING.

ONE THING WE HAD A EARTHQUAKES IN 1992 AND WE'VE HAD A LOT OF EARTHQUAKE.

IT SEEMS THAT THE RIO DELL BEARS THE BRUNT OF THE LOT OF THE DISASTERS.

IS THAT A PARTICULAR REASON.

SO IN 1992 SCOTIA WAS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE.

THEY GOT FIRED THERE WITH I THINK IT WAS GAS.

I CAN SAY WITH THE EPICENTER BEING INLAND AND NOT COASTAL A LOT OF THE HOMES ARE OLDER AND THEY ARE ON PIER BLOCKS OR PERIMETER FOUNDATION AND NOT ON SLABS.

THAT SEEMS TO BE AFFECTED A WAY THAT THE STRUCTURES IN RIO DELL ITSELF REACTED.

YOU KNOW I CAN'T SAY FOR SURE SCOTIA HAS OLDER HOMES AS WELL.

IT WASN'T AFFECTED AS MUCH.

I THINK THAT THE EPICENTER WAS CLOSER TO THE RIO DELL AREA.

>> INTERESTING HOW WOULD YOU SAY THAT YOUR CONSTITUENTS HAVE REACTED TO THE CRISIS.

OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE UNSETTLED THERE'S A LOT OF GENEROSITY AND CAMARADERIE AMONG PEOPLE DOWN THERE.

HOW WOULD YOU GRADE THEIR REACTION SO FAR?

>> SO FIRST OF ALL THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AND PROBABLY THE ENTIRETY OF HUMBOLDT HAS BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF PTSD.

WITH THIS WIND THEIR HOUSES WERE SHAKING WITH THE WIND EVENT AND SCARING PEOPLE.

BUT THE GENEROSITY FROM THE OUTLYING COMMUNITIES FROM THE RIO DELL AND FORTUNA AREA HAVE BEEN ENORMOUS.

GETTING THEM ITEMS THEY NEED.

STEPPING UP.

THERE'S BEEN SOME CONTRACTORS WILLING TO COME IN AND FIX THEIR HOMES, AND GET THEM BACK INTO THEIR HOUSES.

WE NEED TO GET PEOPLE INTO THEIR HOMES.

THERE'S NOTHING WORSE THAN BEING PUT OUT OF YOUR HOME IN THE WINTER AND RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

>> ANY VITAL INFORMATION FOR THE RESIDENTS OF RIO DELL TO HELP THEM GAEL.

>> JUST TO CALL THE LINE.

THAT IS A REALLY GOOD PATHWAY.

WITH THE STORM THE SECOND DISTRICT TOOK A BIG BRUNT.

THE HIGH TIDES AND BIG AS WELL AS.

AND WE HAVE TAKE A DEEP BREATH.

WE'RE GOING TO GET A LOT OF RAIN AND WATER IN THE NEXT 10 DAYS.

AND EARTHQUAKE MORE PROMINENT WHEN THEY FOUND IS THE LEAKY ROOFS THAT CAME IN.

IF YOU NEED HELP CALL YOUR LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT OR VOLUNTEER DEPARTMENT AND WE'RE HERE FOR YOU.

TRY TO BE PATIENT WITH THE PG&E.

THERE ARE SO MANY ISSUES.

THEY'RE WORKING AS FAST AS THEY CAN.

>> THAT'S IT FOR TONIGHT.

AS SHE SAID REMEMBER TO STAY PREPARED.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE CONTINUED WET WEATHER FOR THE NEXT 10 DAYS TO TWO WEEKS.

STAY TUNED AND STAY INFORMED.