From fires to mudslides: the spiraling cost of insurance in CA

A run of four consecutive years when overall insurance losses from natural catastrophes have topped $100bn, could set a new normal nobody wanted. Who is going to pay for the lack of preparedness?

Connected to California's 60s counterculture due to its untrammeled wilderness, dramatic vistas, surf waves, and legendary sunsets, Big Sur has been perceived by pop culture as one of the chosen places of itinerant hippies and intellectuals of yesteryear, a place where in the 60s' "young people lived in cars and under the bridges." It was by choice; nob…