the day that the disaster happened santa barbara mera kathy morello says her first day on the job was one she'll never forget photographs and even video cannot tell the story she says committees were working on ways to help their economy bounce back from the thomas fire just before the month slides hit we have lost of sales tax. people being employed they're not getting paid. back taxes when people come to visit us and stand our hotels even the day trippers can't get up here so now the main hope is to get the one on one freeway back open to visitors from the north and south can begin contributing to the economy once again jim shivers spokesperson for count trances crews are working at an excel or a good paste hoping to reopen the one to one fine next week the locals may look at us one a one as kind of a local road and you could make the argument that it is but on the greater scale this is a major artery for the movement of goods and services and is directly related to the health of many businesses so now officials say it will take months for things to resume normal thing and only time