Always In October
Oct. 23rd, 2007 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraThere's something about California natural disasters and the third week in October...
The Irvine fire is just two and a half miles away from Max's dad's house. I don't think Bill's in any danger but I've been sending good thoughts his way just the same, and remembering the Oakland Hills blaze almost exactly sixteen years before. And the Loma Prieta earthquake two years before that.
At the time of the Oakland fire I was a demon bike rider, routinely putting in 100 to 150 miles a week. But the fire took out my favorite ride – twisty, turny Old Tunnel Road, Grizzly Peak Blvd and its environs. I could never bear to go back after the fire, couldn't face seeing a landscape I'd loved so much so changed. I haven't even driven through it in a car.
At sunset yesterday, Monterey Bay looked like this:
That's smoke in the air, right? From 350 miles away.
The Irvine fire is just two and a half miles away from Max's dad's house. I don't think Bill's in any danger but I've been sending good thoughts his way just the same, and remembering the Oakland Hills blaze almost exactly sixteen years before. And the Loma Prieta earthquake two years before that.
At the time of the Oakland fire I was a demon bike rider, routinely putting in 100 to 150 miles a week. But the fire took out my favorite ride – twisty, turny Old Tunnel Road, Grizzly Peak Blvd and its environs. I could never bear to go back after the fire, couldn't face seeing a landscape I'd loved so much so changed. I haven't even driven through it in a car.
At sunset yesterday, Monterey Bay looked like this:
That's smoke in the air, right? From 350 miles away.
