Tuesday, October 23, 2007
What's all this dust?
I never watch the news on TV, so the only current events I ever know about are the ones I hear on the radio in between song sets and from other people. This past weekend was just another relaxing, normal weekend for me, spent mostly inside the house. Imagine my surprise Monday morning when I went to my car to go to work and found it covered in a thick layer of dust (kinda like this blog sometimes, heh). I had just washed it a few days ago. It wasn’t until I heard mention of the wildfires on the radio that I realized where all that dust came from. That wasn’t just dust, that was ash. I didn’t realize the severity of it all until I looked it up online. There are like 12 different fires going on all throughout Southern California!
Lucky for me I haven’t been affected other than the extra-dusty air. Those hot winds blowing in from the east are making the fires a lot harder to contain, and are also causing a brown haze to form in the sky. (Here’s a satellite photo of only one small section of the fires.) Last night as I was walking the dogs around the block, I could smell the smoke. Not sure if it was a fireplace or someone barbecuing, but I don’t think so. Who lights up their fireplace when it’s 70 degrees outside at night, and who barbecues on a Monday night?
I was just reading that over 500,000 people have been evacuated. Wow. I never realized how many people live in the sticks.
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