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    Peak Fire . . .

    . . . in/around Simi Valley, this last Monday --- ~1000

    Heading out to Zovig's . . . saw this liiiitle puff o' brown smoke --- from ~5 miles out

    By the time I got up the hill . . .



    . . . this



    Almost didn't pull over. Traffic heading East was already stopped . . . some of it trying to turn back --- on that same side o' the highway, even!

    Musta been a dozen firetrucks there, already --- + more coming . . . choppers circling. I saw one those big Skycranes whoop-whoop-whooping overhead

    Water bombers hit just after I left

    When I got t' Zovig's --- we packed some stuff . . . just in case . . .



    . . . again




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    Now thats some ""trippy"" stuff..

    It seems relentless these fires that you fella's / sheila's get clobbered by over there

    Stay safe
    Mark

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    Hey, Mark . . .

    . . . I suppose we've always had fires here in CA --- there's a ton of countryside and, except for coupla storms in the Spring . . . it's always warm + dry. And with all the people + cars + equipment + carelessness . . . something 's always burning somewhere

    But these last few years have been different. Say 'brush-fire' and the image that comes up is some scorched ranch land out in the boonies. 'Forest fire' = some place way-off in the mountains. Nothing to get excited about, right?

    But these last few 'big' fires are something else entirely

    The Cedar Fire . . . that almost got Julian, back in 2003

    The Tubbs Fire --- that burned a big chunk o' Santa Rosa, last year . . . >5000 structures destroyed

    And now the Camp Fire --- that just wiped out Paradise . . . 27,000 people homeless . . . + ~1000 missing



    The loss of life + amount of destruction these fires cause are not something that announcements of 'red flag warnings' and a bunch more firemen + equipment are going to solve

    Time to maybe re-think where + what we build, and how we relate to place we live? . . .



    . . . 'cause the situation that we've created now is not working





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    A peripheral question no one wants to hear is if the state had raised hundreds of billions of dollars from the 60's to the present day not waging a war on combustion engines but funneled untold billions directly to the more destructive combustion capable of taking out whole communities.. Of course, the requisite amount of engineering to support such an effort is massive.

    Sixty years of no major steps in place. And they're considering something now..

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