Things spotted this morning during the San Diego wildfires while I bought groceries and gassed up the car:
- Police cars everywhere, and fire trucks screaming by on a regular basis
- Kids walking to school with bandannas over their mouths (what school isn’t closed today?)
- A crying woman at a gas station filling her car while her husband, two kids, and myriad personal belongings were inside
- People at the grocery store filling dual carts with supplies
- The garbage truck and recycling truck passing by our house doing their usual pickup, as if nothing is happening
- A pocket of blue sky overhead, but high and ominous clouds of mustard and ochre smoke obscuring the northern horizon
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Paul, I am not sure how close the fires are from you, but you better be careful, not only because of the fires but mostly because of the irrational behaviour of other persons. I hope that everything ends well for you and your neighbours.
California is burning and it is awful! I want to know what our state is doing to put in some initiatives into action to avoid this stuff in the future. I refuse to just let nature burn up this entire state every October and have us sit here and not try to prevent it.
Sad-sad-sad.