...and our town. We never did see the orange hills in the fall. Four hundred homes were lost and the beautiful green hills were gone forever. We were evacuated from town on May 5, 2000 when the fires were said to have "hopped the canyon" and were headed for the homes in what was called "the western area". We scrambled to get our most valuable belongings together and packed into the cars and...
There's high altitude smoke blowing into San Diego out of the North/North East, but there's nothing on the San Diego or LA news About it. CNN is silent as well. WTF?
Tuesday was my eighth wedding anniversary. Twelve years of blissful cohabitation, eight of them with the sanction of church and society. Pretty good years, no matter what has happened along the way. Jeff's...constantly the past three days: This type of shit does JUST NOT HAPPEN to real people in the real world! I'll get more philosophical as this winds on, I'm sure, but right now that's still where I am
There have been a few things happened or witnessed by me this past week in the car that just gave me pause for reflection. - Seeing the wildfires on the distant mountains while driving home at night....bother going in or to just leave. But after my drive, gosh darn it, I was going to go through with it, so I did. So yes. I'm sure I'm missing some more moments, but these are the ones that stuck
In Southern California , it is not uncommon to have fires. A lot of fires. With occasional earthquakes. The recent fire caused certain exits off the 118 to be closed, and my particular college is off of that freeway. As a matter of fact, the college is off the 118 and is directly 5 miles away from the closed exits. As I sat down to my English class, students shuffled in and exclaimed...
...stress has backed off a bit. I guess things could be worse - we could have been in the middle of the wildfires going on around here. Actually, it was pretty eerie - we're not really near where the fires were taking place, but since we live in the valley now we could actually see them in the distance on the mountains. It was neat, but like I said... eerie. This past weekend was busy, but I had a...
The fires in California (all up in Porter Ranch, Granada Hills, etc. None near me) have cause the usual insanity. People can't drive, freeways are closing due to fire so people have nowhere TO drive, and what should be a 10 minute drive from my mom's house to my apartment took an hour. Not that I actually went home. When CSUN classes were cancelled (right when I found a parking spot, dammit, and then...
- if you live in southern California, or know people who do :-) This website lists current fires in California: CAL FIRE Incident Information . Each short description of the fire has a website listed for it, which in turn (at least for the ones I've checked) include maps with the approximate area affected, evacuation information, and so on.
