I know all of you have been reading and watching California's fire woes all week. It's the worst fire week in the State's history. Needless to say the fire officers have gone above and beyond their call of duty, completely ignorning their own safety to save people, pets, houses etc. It's been absolutely amazing what these people have accomplished. Considering we have 14 separate fires in just southern California, only 1500 houses have been lost. Almost 500000 people have been displaced, most of them hanging out in the Stadium where the San Diego Chargers play. California learned quite a bit from the flood disaster in New Orleans where the people stayed in their stadium and suffered. The people staying at the San Diego stadium are not complaining at all. Rather they are giving thanks to the supermarkets and giant supply stores who have provided tents, food, water, clothes and anything else everyone needs, all without charge.
There was a famous castle owned by an Iranian princess on top of the Malibu hills. It burned to the ground. Fortunately the castle was highly insured. Unfortunately, the owner also had the largest collection of Elvis memoriabilia including costumes, one of his cars, movie scripts with notes hand written by Elvis himself and many of his old 45 records. Unfortunately, the only thing she was able to save was Elvis' army uniform. No insurance can possibly cover the lost legacy of all her Elvis treasures.
I live 15 miles from the Malibu fire. My town is not threatened but I wanted you to see what the sky has looked like all week over us. You can see the sky in the distance. The dark part over the sky is smoke from the Malibu fire and it has been with us all week along with soot. It's not pretty but it also not as dangerous as the actual fire has been.
Today the wind has died and the humidity has gone from 3 up to 20. It will give the fire officers a chance to work their miracles and, hopefully, by the weekend all the fires will be out and California can again become the Shangrila we are supposed to be.
We Californians thank everyone for your kind thoughts. It's been a very tough week but thank God the mortality rate has been exceptionally low (5 lives lost). Most will rebuilt their houses exactly where they were before the fire knowing that this can happen again at any time. These are the chances we take to live in the "Golden State".
8 comments:
I'm so glad you are OK. I know Joan and Lynn are, too, because they have visited my blog.
I've watched so much TV in the past three days. It's unbelievable what is going on there in your state.
Take care
yeah, we are all ok outside of breathing in God's second hand smoke. I have one of my suppliers who lost the house in the mountains she only bought 6 months ago. She doesn't think she is going to stay up there.
I hope yu are out of the most immediate danger. You hear of these hot, dry Santa Ana winds, coming in from the northeasterly desert instead of from the Pacific. What a shame...
You've got that right! Glad to see that you were able to post a picture.
I've been so worried about all my blogging friends who live in that part of California...what a terrible nightmare this week has been for all of you! I'm so glad to hear that you're safe but being 15 miles from one of the fires still seems too close! Know that you're all in my prayers...stay safe!! xox
This has been a devastating week for so many people; so many people whose lives will never be the same but by the same token, at least they still have their lives. This could have been so much worse when you stop and think about the vast amount of people who live in Southern California and who had to evacuate. Five or six people is a very, very small body count all things considered.
Glad to hear that you are safe and I sincerely hope that these fires are out soon and that there are no more behind them.
I am so glad to read that you haven't been affected by these terrible fires in your town. Every year it just blows my mind to think of this going on in California. Take care and keep us posted on your part of CA.
FYI...In case you're wondering why the line spacing in this post no longer looks too condensed, I've gone ahead and added a line in the template HTML code to correct the problem which seemed to occur when a photo was added. I've fixed mine as well. Let's hope this "fix" takes care of the problem. Cheers!
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