A rare winter wildfire led to evacuation orders in Big Sur over the weekend. By Monday morning, the blaze, called the Colorado Fire, was 35% contained, Cal Fire reported.
The rugged terrain of Big Sur is a place of California weather extremes, hit with deluges one month and wildfires the next.
A sign like the one in this cartoon would not be out of place along Highway 1 in Big Sur.
OK, maybe not the locusts (yet) — but everything else is very possible along one of California's most beautiful stretches of coastline.