“For the next 24 hours, the Camp Fire devoured roughly a football field of forest every second. By 11 a.m., it grew to 1,000 acres. By noon, its ash cloud blocked out the sun. By 1 p.m., that plume was visible from space, a gray blot smearing across the green of California … Within hours, Paradise was gone.” The Atlantic: A Deadly Tsunami of Fire.

+ “Her name is Jody Jones and she lived on Lighty Lane and she is the mayor of Paradise … Now, 10 days after the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history tore through the heart of this place, she carries the weight of a town searching for its soul. What is left when a community of 26,000 is virtually wiped off the map? How can you bring people back when there’s almost nothing to come home to?”

+ “Something beautiful amid total disaster.” The Camp Fire and the salvation of London the cat.

+ And the forecast from the NYT: “Global warming is posing such wide-ranging risks to humanity, involving so many types of phenomena, that by the end of this century some parts of the world could face as many as six climate-related crises at the same time.”

+ The presidential reaction you heard about the most over the weekend was the wildly stupid and deeply offensive suggestion that the fire could have been prevented with more raking. The presidential reaction that actually matters is this one: Trump to nominate Andrew Wheeler (former coal lobbyist, climate change denier) as permanent head of EPA.