Work is scarce, and cities and groceries are a 40-minute drive along vertiginous mountain roads. People said they moved from bigger cities because they liked the rural quiet and seeing mountain lions out their windows. Some people had been drawn to the lake by California’s affordable-housing crisis, pushed out of the rest of Napa. For the past four years, people around the lake said they watched fires march toward their homes, only to be beaten back. The local Lions Club would donate money to fire victims.

Source: New York Times August 26, 2020 21:22 UTC