Natural disasters are a study in adaption.
Between the Thomas Fire and the Montecito mudslides, nearly every person in Santa Barbara's South County had their lives disrupted and their daily patterns altered.
For me, this hit home when I found myself waiting at the Carpinteria station — a quaint little slab of concrete, where there are generally more tumbleweeds than people — and it was utterly slammed. I thought to myself: Who the hell are all these people?