California's Infrastructure's Crumbling (When It's Not Burning)

Sacramento When I first moved to California from Ohio in the 1990s, I spotted a postcard in a gift shop that noted the state's four seasons: wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes and riots. The postcard wasn't entirely wrong. Outside of drought years, the state does suffer through a regular cycle of fires, slides and earthquakes, although the riots aren't actually a seasonal thing. Californians are accustomed to the state's weather disasters the same way a Kansan is accustomed to tornado drills. Currently, Southern California is ablaze. Not long ago, out-of-control wildfires consumed a large portion of the Napa Valley, tragically destroying about