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| View from my living room window last night at 9:30 pm |
Santa Paula, a place I love dearly, is burning. The fire has spread to parts of Ojai and Ventura. Last night I could see flames that looked to be two blocks away. With so many other big fires, there was no information to be had. A drive in the windy dark proved that it was farther away than it looked, but not far enough to sleep easily.
Then the power went out. The internet even via cell phone was sketchy. The emergency alert came through on the cellphone. Check the website it said. The emergency website wouldn't load.
I hate trying to sleep in a room that isn't really dark, but last night kept the shades up with one eye on the flames.
Things are okay here chez moi. For now. There's water between me and the fire, but it's worth noting that the water is super super high in the Marina. I'm gonna say that's a good thing. So my personal paradise isn't on fire, but a lot of other people's edens could be mistaken for the gates of hell right now. The wind is howling like a hungry monster. New fires are popping up. Friends have been evacuated. Prayers, please. So many are in danger.
3 comments:
Be safe. We watched the fire jump the Columbia River in the Columbia River Gorge this summer--something we never thought would happen.
Yes. Be safe. What a horror.
We just went through this fire trauma in Sonoma County. It is terrible and fearsome, all the more so because of the foreboding sense that these are no longer rare aberrations, but another signal of climate change.
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