Today we went to see how the sky looked after 8 days of wildfires in our area. Earlier, the smoke was piled high into the sky, looking like an atom bomb had exploded nearby – a mushroom-shaped cloud on the horizon. The air is brown and hazy. Now, the wind has picked up, again with 60-80 mph gusts, and the clouds have flattened out. This is the view from behind the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, looking west toward the cities of Ventura and further into Santa Barbara County where the coastal town of Carpinteria is being threatened. While my in-laws are now home, friends elsewhere are in danger. We await our turn . . . we have been lucky so far.
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