Wed--Kwei
With Southern California engulfed in flames, some close to my home in Pasadena, I didn't have much time to post, but I captured a few scenes photographically. Where I am in Pasadena at the moment, it doesn't look like we will need to evacuate, but in stark irony, the area where my recently sold home is dangerously close to the Eaton Fire, and if I was still living there, I would have been under evacuation order.
This once-in-a-hundred-year event is fueled by tinder-dry conditions (rainfall has been 0.2 inches for the region this season) and the powerful hurricane-force Santa Ana Winds, immortalized in the masterpiece Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Buoyed by the wind, embers may travel miles before landing on a house or dry vegetation. This partly explains the apparent randomness of the fire in some neighborhoods.
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Dark, smoky horizon east of me
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| The apocalyptic area of the Eaton Fire in Altadena that you see on TV |
