Sucks Ash.

[tablesaw]

I don't like fire. I'm on edge, and have been ever since I walked outside to pay the rent and saw ash falling all around. The fire line is less than five miles from where I used to live, and where my parents still live. They're safely nestled in a developed area, and they're not at risk, but some other friends had to evacuate yesterday (though the order was been lifted and they've returned).

My mother's school is one of the only ones in the area still in session. A block away, another school as been converted to an evacuation area. The fire's burned a park that my dad, my sister, and I hiked in. It's burned a cemetery where I attended the funeral of a friend's brother.

Los Angeles has a lot of undeveloped land, and so far, there's been little property damage, and apparently only one injury. It's not something to worry about.

It's just unsettling.

Comments

[mice.livejournal.com]

Back home in Idaho, we didn't have much in the way of natural disasters, except Fire Season.

I remember it got close to our property one night (we lived a half mile out of town) and it was getting close - pitch black night, no electricity and all we could see was glowing orange.

The craziest ever was driving through a fire - they had it contained off of the highways, but it was still pretty near. You drove through this horrible heat after just getting back from doing your shopping.

I don't like fires, either.

[estivalfiend.livejournal.com]

i've always hated the fires as well. and with me being out of state now, hearing about them from other people or on the news tends to be particularly distressing because i can't actually be there and see for myself that things are really okay.

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize you or your fam were close to any of it. I smelled smoke last night near USC but didn't know about the fires until I got home.