My car was covered in ashes this morning. Not enough to make me think it was snowing, and not nearly enough to do more than just blow off as I drove away for work. The hills are crying, and being tossed into the air by the violent flames. Our windows are closed tight trying to keep the ashes and smoke from entering our homes, but isn't avoidable.
We didn't need to evacuate, but the firefighters were on the hill all night long. I wasn't sure if they'd come and knock on our door at 3a.m. and tell us to get out because the hill had become fully engulfed. The cloud cover that rolled in yesterday afternoon must have helped.
I took a few photos when I first got home from work, then ten minutes later before I left for dinner. It wasn't flaming death, or violent, but an ominous cloud of thick smoke settled into our little valley and everyone stood on the porch wondering just when it would be their turn to face the flames of the apocalypse.
I was on the phone with a friend on the way to dinner. Our exchange went something like this:
"Fires, floods, hurricanes, bombs, terrorism, corporate control of government."
"You liberal."
"Yeah, but i mean come on, this is the apocalypse! We've got live 24-hour access to it, and now it is at my backdoor. What's next?"
"Jesus?"
"Hallelujah."
Comments (1)
i saw the fires burning good as I flew over the hills into LAX on Thursday. It was amazing to see how large the flames were.
Posted by tyd | October 4, 2005 9:18 PM
Posted on October 4, 2005 21:18