SoCal Firestorm - Oct 2003
October 2003 turned out to have the worst wildfires ever in California. When
the fires started, we were in the midst of a record setting heat wave.
The closest one was a good 30+ miles away. As the days
wore on, the fires got larger and larger, but even further away from us.
Unfortunately, the winds blew everything right over Orange County. Our
yard, pool, etc. were covered in fine ash. It looked like it was snowing it
was so heavy. On Saturday it was so dark outside we needed lights on in the
house all day. It was like dusk, all day long. The sky was full of smoke and
ash and it was impossible to get away from the smell of smoke. This lasted for
about five full days. The smokey smell permeated the house, everything.
The mess that is our pool.
It's so dark and smokey outside, you can look straight at the sun.
This is the middle of an otherwise cloudless day, and we're more than
40 miles from the fire!
Ash covering our driveway. The picture has a yellow tinge. That's not the picture.
The sky, the outside world was this yucky yellow tinge for several days.
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