Fires and Heat

When most people think of Southern California they think....beaches, beautiful people and weather, celebrities and sun!!!

Most people don't think about the extreme heat, earthquakes or fires! The east coast has hurricanes....the middle of the country has Tornadoes and the west has earthquakes. Now the first two are seasons....but the last isn't, which in my opinion makes us kinda lucky cause it just hits we don't have to watch it coming! But we do have a threatening season....it's called FIRE SEASON and we are in the middle of it right now!

When it's extremely hot and dry with little to no wind, we Southern Californians find ourselves surrounded by forest fires, brush fires....raging, out of control, unstoppable fires...and every year it seems to get bigger, scary and hotter!

In the last two weeks, we've had (I could be wrong) 3 major fires! And these fires have added to the dry heat we are feeling in the basin! The wind has left us (which is good for the fires) so we are trying our hardest not to kill over. I am not fortunate enough to live in a house with A/C so we are barely moving around the house...drinking tons of water and generally trying to stay our of each others way!

I can't get up in the morning without choking on smoke and the air is literally yellow all day long...and it's not from the sun!

And since Los Angeles sits in the middle of a desert, in which we supply water from outside sources, and we have had little to no rain in order to replenish those sources we are in a drought...so our ground are dryer then usual.

I think I'm going to move to someplace cool with no fires. Antarctica anyone?