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These fires are devastating. 
Shelton WA. 
Heck! It's not acknowledged by some du members here. It's me! It's MY life, my children and grandchildren!
#LeftCoastLivesMatter
When this threat is over, make plans to move to somewhere safer. Not Florida or Texas either. Most of the midwestern states are safe from major catastrophes like fires, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes. (knock on wood)
In the meantime good luck with everything.
And right wingers? 
We had a tiny tornado once about 10-12 years ago. I think they called it a micro-burst.
But there's plenty of room here and we won't run out of water.
Property taxes and cost of living are relatively low compared to the West Coast.
Check us out!
If Pennsylvania hadn't been hacked last year we probably would have gone blue again, but it's hard to say.
We definitely went blue for Obama twice and I think we split one and one for Bush Junior.
The voting record should be a lower priority when deciding where you want to relocate to. You should consider affordable housing availability, quality of schools (if you have kids), types of jobs available and companies hiring, transportation, seasonal temperatures, climate in general. Great, livable neighborhoods (lots of diversity) with local stores and also shopping malls close by when you need them.
In Pittsburgh we check out in all of those categories. We're a great sports town too.
But in western PA (I live in Pittsburgh) we haven't had a blizzard for at least 20 years.
We get Nor'easters (big snowstorms of 20+ inches) maybe once every 4 or 5 years. This is way different as you go farther east where they probably get one or 2 big storms every year. It seems most of the really bad weather skips us or we just catch the edge of it. On the other hand we do get lots of rain here. The ground saturation is always good, and we don't have droughts except maybe a couple weeks in July or August. It's not hot/dry enough to turn our grass brown usually. I can't even remember when we had water rationing here, but maybe we had one back in the early '90s, for a couple of weeks. This is entirely different from what you guys in California have been going through.
Temperatures rarely go below 0 in the winter. Summer temps range in the 80's and sometimes get up above 90 but only in the afternoon. It always cools down at night. For the past 2 or 3 summers I didn't put my window air conditioner in because I did't need it. A few summers before that I had the air conditioner in but only used it for 2 or 3 days, then left it off. We have 4 seasons here, we shovel snow in the winter and cut grass in the summer. If I have any complaint it's that we get a lot more cloudy days than sunny, but the temperatures are comfortable.
In my opinion fall is the best here, especially October. We've got amazing fall colors on the trees right now.
they are going through a very rough time out there fires are out of control..........sigh.
May all your wildfires be instantly extinguished,
May you droughts be plentifully relieved, and
May all your Republicans go to sea and never come back!
Please stay safe - from our family to yours!
