It's finally cooling down a smidgin here in Northern California. Not so in Southern California. Less than two months after this article ran in the Chronicle, the combination of dry weather, drought, and dead trees has resulted in, well, fires all over the place. I remember coming up to Oakland a week after the 1991 fire and taking a little tour of the fire damage — a tour that came to a swift end when a live electrical wire started arcing and popping. Yikes!
This was on the front page of SFGate today... the satellite picture reminds me of the fakey picture of the East Coast blackout a couple of months ago... only this one is no fake. The impact on the atmosphere... not to mention the impact on the lives of people who lost their homes, or worse.
