Here Come Those Santa Ana Winds Again

The winds that started Saturday afternoon have increased this past day and suddenly, we are ringed by fire. At least three separate fires are burning to the west, to the east and north of us. School has been closed, classmates of my son have been evacuated and his school is currently a shelter for the displaced. I don't know how long that situation will hold, since it is not far from one of the fire lines.


So we wait and we watch and we prepare for tomorrow, hoping that the wind doesn't drive one of these fires into homes and thus, threaten our neighborhood and home. God willing, we will all make it through.

Update this morning. When I left my car at the train and got on it, from the slightly higher elevation of the tracks, you could see fire right across the street and river (dry river, not wet river). So another thing for me to worry about, my car.

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Photos are obviously from
my crappy cell phone, that gets
so much worse in the dark...but
you get the idea.