Mama gets trapped by a wildfire
One of the first things I do in the morning is lean against one of my bedroom walls and stretch my legs and back. After gently waking my muscles, I walk to my living room window and open the blinds. This morning, I was horrified at what I saw. Thick clouds of smoke. I could barely see the homes across the street. I knew a bad forest fire was near.
Wildfire season is in full force in Southern California. Yesterday a wildfire erupted less than 20 miles from where I live. Yet, I didn’t smell or see the effects of it until this morning when I awoke. I’ve been awake less than 5 hours and my body is dizzily intoxicated with pollution caused by the nearby fires. My eyes burn worst than if I had just cut an onion two inches from my face. The inside of my nose feels like it is on fire. When I sneezed, I thought I saw a small spark fly out of my nose. I have a mild cough and my tummy is extremely upset. I’m staying inside the house today. I can say good bye to my evening walk today.
Water is scarce. The city of Pasadena has limited our water usage. We are only allowed to water our grass during the hours of 6pm and 9am on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Maybe I should install that rainwater collection system I’ve been thinking about.
I can only imagine how the air quality affects infants, pregnant women, and seniors.
Fires, drought, and increased temperatures. Is this a glimpse of the future?
I hope not.
- Mama
I hope you are safe Mama, I am also in the L.A area and I am already feeling the effects of the fire, got a sore throat, burning eyes and a headache. Hope the fire is contained sooner than soon.
Re: “Fires, drought, and increased temperatures. Is this a glimpse of the future?”
I hope your fire and smoke problem goes away, and that your family and neighborhood remain safe during the present and future fire seasons.
Fires, drought, and increased temperatures are a glimpse of the past, and possibly also the future.
I remember buying my first motorcycle in 1975, and driving it for three years in southern California without getting rained on. The three years of drought during 1975 through 1977 were great for motorcycle riders.
But then the weather made up for lost time in the winter of 1978, and my normal route to UCLA driving west on Sunset Blvd. was flooded at times with water several feet deep., and I arrived soaking wet on occasion.
I remember watching wildfires in the hills from the rooftop of the Math Sciences building at UCLA. We saw the flashing red beacons of fire engines going up the hill, and some time later we saw them going back down the hill, and then the hill was engulfed in flames.
The weather goes in cycles, however, there is an overall COOLING trend for most areas of the planet.
Re: “Water is scarce. The city of Pasadena has limited our water usage. We are only allowed to water our grass during the hours of 6pm and 9am on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday.”
The entire public infrastructure, including water, electricity, road traffic capacity, police and fire services, courts and prisons, hospitals and emergency rooms, schools, etc. are being over taxed and overburdened by the millions of illegal aliens who are not supposed to be here and who were never planned for when the infrastructure was planned and built.
Also, the mass illegal alien migration across the U.S.-Mexico border is trashing the environment with everything from plastic water bottles, articles of clothing, and soiled disposable diapers to bras and panties hanging from the “rape trees”, where the coyotes (illegal alien smugglers) compete with each other by placing their trophies representing the number of women and young girls they have raped.
At least half of California’s public school children in grades K-12 are illegal alien children, costing an average of $13,000 per student per year and a total of about $25 Billion per year counting state and federal tax money spend on public schools in California.
This is based on California Department of Education demographic data, which classifies 49 percent of public school students in grades K-12 as Spanish language native speakers and English language learners, and on state government budget data.
The politicians can ignore the needs of the citizens and taxpayers and instead cater to special interests because most of them run for election in safe, noncompetitive gerrymandered election districts.
The solution is real redistricting reform, whereby a computer program draws maximally compact election districts.
Regards,
– FraudFactor