I have just returned from my trip to Southern California. It was a good trip, I stayed at the Aberle's house in Moorpark. They hosted a church potluck on Saturday night with many people in attendance.
The wind was pretty amazing coming off the mountains to the north east. In the morning there was a lot of smoke in the air, and the winds continued to gust. Here is a news story on the fires. It was pretty impressive, and stopped our first attempts to get to church. We encountered a blocked off road with good reason, there was so much smoke (the fire was bordering several roads we tried) that it would be almost impossible to drive through. The water carrying helicopters were pretty impressive, even more so that they were flying so heavy laden in the very high winds. We finally had to travel north and around to get out of the area. This greatly increased our time to church and we were about an hour late.
Now I just have to experience the other seasons of Southern California: mudslides, earthquakes, and riots.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
The Four Seasons of Southern California
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Fortunately those other three seasons don't happen nearly as often as fires. The really big mudslides only happen every few years, the big earthquakes are even more rare, and the riots usually don't happen more than once a decade. Add in the traffic and overcrowded and extremely expensive living standards, it's amazing that anyone would choose to spend their life here.
Fortunately, here in Redwood City, we just have the earthquakes. And our house is on bedrock. Not so sure about your apartment! ;-)
And I think those winds you experienced are the famous Santa Anas...
The placard reads: "the end of days" Jacaranda boughs are bending in the haze...more a question than a curse: "how could Hell be any worse?" When the hills of Los Angeles are burning...palm trees like candles in the murder wind...so many lives are on the breeze, even the stars are ill-at-ease when Los Angeles is burning.
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