So, San Diego is being burned to the ground. At least, major portions of it. The satellite image shows you the smoke cover over the county as of yesterday morning when the fires were just starting to really get out of hand.
Right now businesses are closed and the usual hum of city noise outside the window is a matter of decibels lower today. It is a weird sensation, everything has a light orange hue in our neighborhood, and everything is coated in ash. Not a fine ash, but a large grey pieces ash similar to dumping an ash tray out on your coffee table.
It's hot, it's dry and ash is everywhere. All the stores are sold out of breathing masks. It's like living in a furnace. And we are located in the outskirts of the smoke zones.
People I know who live directly under the clouds are fighting burning embers falling on their homes, and the sky is dark as night.
I wonder how long. How long will it burn?
"They say time is the fire in which we burn, Captain." -Malcom McDowell in "Star Trek: Generations"
La-uhz!
Dave
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