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The New York Times

‘It Was Biblical’: Ash and Flame Upend Life in Southern California

Wind-whipped wildfire blew

through communities of every socioeconomic status and stripe,

merging, psychically if not physically, into a kind of mega-catastrophe.

NYT

Published Jan. 8, 2025

Updated Jan. 10, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/
us/los-angeles-wildfires.html

change        USA

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/
1198910860/consider-this-from-npr-draft-03-19-2024

upheaval    USA

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/
triumphant-trump-returns-white-house-launching-new-era-upheaval-2025-01-20/

upend        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/
us/politics/trump-federal-workers.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/
us/los-angeles-wildfires.html

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/07/
g-s1-37295/syria-insurgents-have-reached-suburbs-damascus

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/
nx-s1-5091048/election-ballot-measures-nonpartisan-primaries-ranked-choice-voting

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/14/
world/middleeast/iran-strikes-israel-analysis.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/28/117
8673068/lingering-concerns-could-upend-the-debt-ceiling-deal

upended        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/
arts/design/japanese-artists-smi

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/
world/middleeast/trump-middle-east-allies-israel-iran-oil.html

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