10-23-2007, 06:54 PM
When I got up this morning, the wind had kicked up a bit, but less so than yesterday afternoon. The sky was blue overhead. No sign of the smoke plume that had shrouded our community for the last two days. I was frankly puzzled where it had gone, since I didn't think the Buckweed fire would have burned itself out overnight. When I set off for work (figuring it was safe to do so), I spotted the smoke plume, still pretty dense, being blown directly west, toward Interstate 5 but away from most housing developments, including mine.
Our backyard looks like a scene from the early stages of Pompeii (there, brought it on topic!) — lots of black soot and larger flakes of gray ash everywhere. The swimming pool's practically crusted over with this gunk.
Checking the news, it seems the wind has shifted direction and most of the major blazes were now heading away from civilization in the Santa Clarita area, at least. Still big problems in Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino county and San Diego area, where Hib and most of Legio IX are. San Diego has taken the brunt of it. 500,000 + evacuated is Hurricane Katrina level! Our thoughts and prayers are with our Fratres to the south, for sure.
Yesterday, Governor Arnold was all over the place, promising aid, boosting morale, playing the Man of Action role he did so well in the movies. I'm not his biggest fan (too liberal for me!), but I gotta say he seemed in his element and my kids actually got calmer after listening to him. Someone asked him what the state most needed to beat the fires.
"Ve need for the vinds to DIE DOWN," he said in his best Terminator voice.
Sure enough, today, they seemed to have done just that, about a day ahead of schedule according to the meteorologists.
Guess God's an Arnold fan.
Our backyard looks like a scene from the early stages of Pompeii (there, brought it on topic!) — lots of black soot and larger flakes of gray ash everywhere. The swimming pool's practically crusted over with this gunk.
Checking the news, it seems the wind has shifted direction and most of the major blazes were now heading away from civilization in the Santa Clarita area, at least. Still big problems in Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino county and San Diego area, where Hib and most of Legio IX are. San Diego has taken the brunt of it. 500,000 + evacuated is Hurricane Katrina level! Our thoughts and prayers are with our Fratres to the south, for sure.
Yesterday, Governor Arnold was all over the place, promising aid, boosting morale, playing the Man of Action role he did so well in the movies. I'm not his biggest fan (too liberal for me!), but I gotta say he seemed in his element and my kids actually got calmer after listening to him. Someone asked him what the state most needed to beat the fires.
"Ve need for the vinds to DIE DOWN," he said in his best Terminator voice.
Sure enough, today, they seemed to have done just that, about a day ahead of schedule according to the meteorologists.
Guess God's an Arnold fan.
T. Flavius Crispus / David S. Michaels
Centurio Pilus Prior,
Legio VI VPF
CA, USA
"Oderint dum probent."
Tiberius
Centurio Pilus Prior,
Legio VI VPF
CA, USA
"Oderint dum probent."
Tiberius
