california is dying

hello all.

some of you have recently texted or called me to see if i was all right, considering that half of los angeles county is on fire.

yes i'm fine.

but this is awesome!

no for real, it is an absolute horror and shame that people are losing their homes and many others are getting sick because of the fumes, but good lord, this is a wild world.

New Yorkers talk about how you don't know if you'll get killed on one block or the other by a crazed psychopath, well people here in california have to wonder which way mother nature is going to screw them next.

Last week there was an earthquake (that i slept through) and now, I'm looking out of my window and the entire sky is covered in dark clouds.

oh no. wait. that's the smoke from the fires! for real. it looks like it's going to rain motor oil outside. Then if you throw in periodic mudslides in the winter, and then the drought we're having now which is leaving us on our water reserves, you have Mother Nature's way of screwing California.

And I'm not leaving anytime soon.

I've also found a great article for you to read that really just puts everything in perspective for you: http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=4703528&version=47&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1


Some of the most interesting quotes:
By day three, the dozen wildfires had burned more than 1,200 homes and businesses, and the destruction may only be the start for the region. With forecasts calling for hotter temperatures and fierce wind gusts, the flames were proving nearly impossible to fight. At least 346,000 homes were evacuated in San Diego County alone, sheriff's officials said. But the total number could be much higher, and state officials were still struggling to estimate how many people had fled.

Since they began Sunday, the fires have burned at least 245,957 acres, or 384 square miles -- an area larger than New York City. As the fires spread, most out of control, smaller blazes were merging into larger, more fearsome ones. Evacuations were being announced in one community after another as firefighters found themselves overwhelmed by gale-force Santa Ana winds, some gusting to 70 mph.

Crazy right? Anywho. Got a car, an apartment, and a job next week. How are all of you?