Thanks, myredracer and 1sg for the eyes on the ground.
I was thinking that a lot of people who lost their houses might have bought trailers and RV's to live in temporarily. Or tents. There were a lot of people in tents at the Chico Walmart, although I guess mostly they have gotten into motel vouchers by now.
The situation for people who were renting, and had no renter's insurance, and need to stay local in order to get to their jobs, was really terrible.
For people who want follow-up news coverage on the fires, the best sources I found were the websites of the local newspapers. The Sacramento Bee, the chico paper, the redding paper... very thorough coverage, including the effects of an individual people. And the Wikipedia article on the Camp fire is very good too.
I agree about national news just hopping from one disaster to another. I pretty much ignore TV news. The forced editorials were the last straw.
