Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Checking in on Santa Rosa cohousers

[Jenny Guy (jenstermeister]

I have an empty apartment, but it is truly empty: no furniture or bedding
of any kind. It does have a stove and fridge, and the electricity is on. Is
there an agency that's coordinating this?

Jenny
Kingfisher Cohousing, Oakland
www.brookdalecommons.org

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Raines Cohen <rc3-coho-L [at] raines.com>
wrote:

> Yulupa Cohousing is near the evacuation line but OK last I heard. Similar
> for Santa Rosa Creek Commons, which is half a mile further away from the
> fires. You can see Yulupa avenue named on many of the Santa Rosa maps, but
> the community is not at the north end where the fire is spreading most in
> rural areas. As you read the maps, don’t confuse the evacuation lines with
> fire lines, much further back.
>
> Some Bay Area cohousing communities are offering guest room space for folks
> who lost homes due to fire or who need to get out of the heavy smoke. The
> biggest needs I’ve heard the mst about are spaces for families, which
> single-bed single-Guestroom communities like ours aren’t well-equipped to
> welcome.
>
> Some former creators and residents of East Bay (near San Francisco)
> communities who moved North to live solo (not always by choice) have lost
> their homes to fire or are preparing to leave at a moment’s notice.
>
> The smoke was briefly tipping air quality in Berkeley/Oakland to
> unhealthful levels of particles yesterday but winds shifted and things have
> improved, but there is definitely a smoky smell in the air, 100 miles away.
>
> It is a factor here in Berkeley cohousing’s decision-making on furnace
> replacement: how much should we expect more wildfires due to climate
> change, and so should a design goal be to filter the air well enough for
> the Common House to be a refuge when the air outside is not safe to
> breathe?
>
> Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach
> Cohousing California
> http://www.CalCoho.org/
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 6:58 AM Dick Margulis <dick [at] dmargulis.com> wrote:
>
> > On 10/10/2017 9:44 AM, Joanie Connors wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Wondered how the Santa Rosa cohousing communities are faring? Are you
> OK?
> > >
> > If you know the locations, you can check on this map from 7 minutes ago:
> >
> >
> > http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-northern-
> california-fires-live-another-5-000-buildings-added-in-
> 1507582218-htmlstory.html
> >
> >
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