and it Continues...

Palos Verdes Fire

Of course, since this is FIRE SEASON rather than NOT FIRE SEASON, things have escalated...



Last night Rancho Palos Verdes area was hit.. this area is so congested with trees and expensive homes that they actually flew the firefighting planes at night. A very ballsy move. This one is better today, but not gone. This one is much closer than all the rest. This is where I go to have lunch every now and then because there's a great little Japanese restaurant and the view is terrific. I have decided, tho', that Catalina Island is moving closer every day... but that's for another time.


La Canada fire... last night..
Next we have the La Canada Flintridge fire ... that's Canyada, not like the country. This is the biggest and baddest in a while. I have many pictures of this one taken from my area. The plume is incredible because there is, thankfully, no wind to speak of. You can see it in the pictures even though I am about 40 miles (and several mountain ranges) from the fire. This is the one that is not contained.

The La Canada fire from Sepulveda (route 1, essentially) I couldn't get closer to the corner, but the plume is incredible, so I moved to the shopping center close by.. and took this.

Remember, I'm more than 40 miles away from this..

So I went to the airport where there is a great overlook, but by then, two miles closer, I was 'in' the pollution, so the clarity of the plume is not as good... or bad...

You can see the pall of smoke... some of which is from the Azusa fire..

Then there's the 'Hemet" fire (it has another cute name, but I call them all names I can't repeat here, so it won't help for me to use either name). The Hemet fire is up in the hills to the south and east of me. Another bad area for a fire because, like the La Canada fire, it's hard to fight.

Then there's the fire above Azusa.. north and east of me. It's causing the most air pollution (the sky here is brown, even at the beach). again, about 45 miles away. No pictures.

Plus, there are fires way north of here, in the Santa Barbara area (started by marijuana growers), and more up the coast.

God I hate California during Fire Season...

Oh wait..

God I hate California...

There, that's better...

and don't even get me started on this guy who took the little girl for 18 years...

I'm forming a committee to visit him on a regular basis and stick pointy things into him. Lots and lots of pointy things.

Anyone want to join?