What hit him the hardest initially was all the animals that didn't make it, including quite a few exotics.
Then, I'm sure, that most everything he'd worked for all his life (except for companies in other locations) was just gone.
Buildings, orchards, vineyard, cars, all of it.
And that many of his employees now had no work probably didn't feel good, either. Especially the ones who had their homes on the ranch.
I feel so fortunate that we had already moved, so I didn't have to see the aftermath. Including the foundation (pretty much all that remained) of my old house.
Yeah for sure, cars, property, etc etc are all replaceable.
Animals a little different but cattle is definitely replaceable, still sucks to lose a living being even if it's an animal.
The loss of jobs and human life hits the hardest and stings the longest. Those areas get completely decimated and become damn near uninhabitable because of the destruction and pension for flare ups.
California is the best state to live in when it comes to beauty, weather and lifestyle but it comes with a lot of unsavory things as time goes on such as politicians, ridiculous cost of living, out of control property values, wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes, etc etc.
Once you leave cali you never look back, parents moved to the east coast in the early 2000s and they go down as saying that it was the best decision of their life.