So um, there’s a fire outside.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-322595
I don’t think I’m in danger of having to evacuate, but some of the people at work (no one I know directly) have had to.
On the map below, I live in Pasadena and work in Glendale, so it’s fairly close.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=117631292961056724014.0004720e21d9cded17ce4&ll=34.341168,-118.164825&spn=0.566957,0.823975&t=p&z=10&source=embed
There’s a big mushroom cloudy thing visible on the horizon, and on the drive home at night, I can see big chunks of fire in the hills. It’s scary, but for some reason it doesn’t really seem real. During the day on Saturday, the giant smoke plume was actually really pretty looking, since it looked like a focused group of clouds during a sunset (bright beautiful white clouds with shades of blue, red, purple and deep yellow mixed in). It’s the kind of thing that stops being pretty once you remember what it is… but still…
(this time-lapse video sort of shows what I’m talking about, but from where I was it was even more colorful and pretty… a lot like the clouds in that Pixar short before “Up” actually)
Also strange is the campfire smell that keeps showing up here and there, ranging from vagueish to quite strong. Soem of my coworkers have ash falling on their neighborhoods, but I haven’t seen that yet.
