Friday, September 30, 2005
Welcome To My World
Here in Southern California, we do not have the seasons that most people have. We have the wet season followed by summer followed by fire season. It's fire season. And yes, it does occasionaly look like atomic bomb season.This picutre is the big fire out in the west end of the San Fernando valley -- I live in the east end. As I sit at my desk I look out a large picture window and see the Verdugo Mountains in all their glory. Right now, rising from behind the mountains is smoke. The Burbank side of the Verdugos is burning, though the news is telling me they are getting it under control rather quickly.
This happens every year, whether we want it to or not. It's dangerous, but as we have seen recently, it is not quite the breathless earth-shattering occurence the media would have us believe. (Even if the NYTimes thinks its the conditions and not the reporting.) We'll be fine, a few homes will burn, but they are well insured. It's incovenient and heart-breaking, but rarely end-of-the-world kind of stuff. It's just another fire season.
