November 16, 2008

  • Southern California has lately pretty much had "fire season" year round, and this past day was a doozy. This is the nearest our home has been to any kind of fire problem by far, and it's definitely more relevant that I pay attention to this situation more so than I ever did. Me and my wife were actually in Orange County for about an hour, and walking around over there, with ash falling from the sky was just pretty darn bad. Air quality was definitely a problem, plus an ash fell in my left eye which was pretty irritating and a bit painful. On our way home via freeway, we could literally see the flames as we drove by, and the large smoke surrounding us from above was quite a sight. In fact, literally minutes after we drove by on that freeway, they closed it down in both directions. If we stayed longer in Orange County just a few minutes longer, then we would have been stuck down there for several hours, as it's a very far detour to go around that freeway closure.

    This fire in Orange County is being called by the media as the "freeway complex fire" or the "triangle complex fire." The name was probably created because the majority of people in SoCal aren't too familiar with the names of the cities that has the fires, and saying "triangle complex fire" also kinda indicates how it's three different fires in that area. By the way, the media for some reason are interviewing people who did not follow the mandatory evacuation, and how they saved their homes because they did not follow orders. Statements saying how "if we did not stay behind and stopped the fire nearby our home ourselves, we would have lost our home," and then the news talks about how their neighbor's house is on fire. Is that the lesson people are suppose to learn about these interviews? If there is a fire nearby, stay home to protect it?

    In other news of the past day, my car got a flat tire by running over a nail. I had to get two new rear tires AGAIN. Ofcourse that's just a minor inconvenience compare to those losing their homes due to the fire.

    In other other news, later today if things go according to plan, the new owners of the "ninja dog" we rescued from the shelter, will be taking her to her new home. It's going to once again be just the two dogs again for this household pretty soon.