Although western Oregon is known as being rainy, we're really suffering from drought, even here on the normally moldy, damp coast! Last September, we had a forest fire seven miles north of us that took nearly 300 homes, mostly of low-income tourism workers, a real tragedy. We've been on fire alert since early April. We've already packed the most expensive of our mass of collectible fly fishing tackle, and I have an outsized box ready to hold the most valuable original art, fly plates, for when we're evacuated this year. Last year, I learned that while you're throwing things into the car to evacuate, you really need to look at what you're wearing: we have a well, so no water without electricity (which had been out for three days), so I'd been dipping water out of our creek to force flush the toilet, wearing my absolute worst yard clothes. I did grab a basket that had come out of the dryer just before the 'lectricity went out, but it didn't have anything useful for when we were staying in my son-in-law's late gramma's house in a very upscale neighborhood. This year, we are better prepared! I've owned this place for 60 years and have only worried about too much moisture in the past...hard to believe that everything's so terribly dry.