Monday, October 27, 2003
life in a fire zone
ok...it's been weeks. no excuses
Arnold will be governor sometime this month.
I have lost 15 pounds since July.
There are fires all around me and I can smell the smoke drifting in the still air, like a distant campfire.
My eyes burn and water and there is a scratchy sensation in the throat and lungs...but I have not been out partying, or staying up late.
SoCal is on fire again tonight, rather it is still on fire tonight.
As I write, they report over 1,100 hundred homes have been reduced to ash and 15 people have died.
Some of them burned to death because they did not run away fast enough when the warnings came...or there were no warnings, or the fire was just too damn fast.
They say today was better than yesterday.
For some folks I guess that is true, the winds are down a bit and a cold front will eventually come in.
None of that really matters to the homeless families or the owners of the destroyed businesses, or the fact that this state, which only a couple of months ago began to come to grips with the fact that we were almost $40 billion in debt.
God only knows how much this latest disaster will cost.
Arnold will be governor sometime this month.
I have lost 15 pounds since July.
There are fires all around me and I can smell the smoke drifting in the still air, like a distant campfire.
My eyes burn and water and there is a scratchy sensation in the throat and lungs...but I have not been out partying, or staying up late.
SoCal is on fire again tonight, rather it is still on fire tonight.
As I write, they report over 1,100 hundred homes have been reduced to ash and 15 people have died.
Some of them burned to death because they did not run away fast enough when the warnings came...or there were no warnings, or the fire was just too damn fast.
They say today was better than yesterday.
For some folks I guess that is true, the winds are down a bit and a cold front will eventually come in.
None of that really matters to the homeless families or the owners of the destroyed businesses, or the fact that this state, which only a couple of months ago began to come to grips with the fact that we were almost $40 billion in debt.
God only knows how much this latest disaster will cost.
