(internet photo – I didn’t go out there, all these fire photos are the best ones I can find from the internet)
I’m 2 miles from the scene above. This morning I thought I was heating my house with a campfire and when I opened the front door it was even worse. Now it’s around 11am and I’m going to Redondo Beach for an outing with the kids and some fresh air.
The Santa Monica evacuation orders got worse yesterday afternoon but I was still ok, and then this morning the orders were back to yesterday morning, like the picture I showed on the 8th. Most of the tv channels were running Carter’s funeral but one local station stuck with the fires and I stuck with them. I’ve been channel-surfing the fires, doing nothing else, since Tuesday afternoon when I got home.
You’d think it would get repetitive watching the fires all day, but no, it’s a constantly evolving disaster, like just now I saw that Mount Wilson is on fire and the communication towers up there are threatened. Too much, just too much. My current favorite channels are local NBC and KCAL.