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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance         Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 414 days Last activity: 222 days |
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| Well, more Orange County.
I'm currently at my school, Cal State Fullerton, and I'm about 2 miles south of a major wildfire. There are mini-mountains of ash on less-tread parts of campus and the air is smoky, occasionally snowing dandruff-like particles of ash from the flames. Here in Orange County ("the O.C." for those of you TV-watchers), we face the Santa Ana Winds--unforgiving zephyrs of hellish air (feels like you're walking into a huge blow dryer on high heat. For the better part of this weekend, it was difficult to breathe easy standing outside of my house. We're surrounded and getting the smoke from north, south, and east of us. The Pacific lies to the west. The moon shone red and deep amber through the layers of smoke the last couple nights. 
Taken standing on my roof a couple nights ago. For the most part, major cities are safe, and no one that I know personally has lost their home, pets, or lives. So this shouldn't offend you: (Last edited by Rogue on 11-17-08 11:31 AM) |
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Katana Dark Wizard \"She said tonight...come on come on collide...see what I fire feels like..I bet its just like heaven.\"  Since: 08-15-04 From: Philadelphia, P.A. Since last post: 1335 days Last activity: 1152 days |
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| Those fired have been on the news even out here on the East Coast.
People bitch about the humidity here in Philly, which sure, for the elderly and asthmatic, can be terrible...but I know that's nothing compared to an air that basically spontaneously combusts...  I'm sure I'm not being "politically correct", but you get what I mean. I couldn't imagine going to school and having ash being blown all over.  I hope you guys are all going to be okay.
The picture of the moon does look pretty badass though... |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 414 days Last activity: 222 days |
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| I found a page with a few maps of the current fires: http://searchengineland.com/maps-of-fires-in-southern-california-november-2008-edition-15489.php
The one I mention being two miles south of is the Brea/Yorba Linda fire (fifth map down). My school is to the left of the 57 freeway. It was kind of trippy going to class with about half the people wearing surgical masks. From what I've heard the winds have calmed down and the air quality should be better by now. It's looking pretty nice here in Cerritos, where we can finally see the blue sky again. Seriously though, you know how in movies (like Independence Day) they'll show the sky with rolling sheet of orange, brown, and gray smoke (maybe with the added light of fires in the sky)? Short of the random burst of flame in the sky, it kinda looked like this most of the time this weekend: 
Several people were quoted as saying it was Armageddon (headlines Saturday actually insisted it was "the End of the World" in California), the Governator included (however with his quote it seems to have changed to "like Armageddon"). Thankfully no major wildfires come close to my home in Cerritos, but we were catching the smoke and ash from all of the fires on all sides of us. (Last edited by Rogue on 11-18-08 11:00 AM) |
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Elara Divine Mamkute Dark Elf Goddess Chaos Imp Penguins Fan Ms. Invisable  Since: 08-15-04 From: Ferelden Since last post: 92 days Last activity: 92 days |
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| Yeah, this weekend was hell. It was raining ash on downtown Long Beach, so we had to close up all the windows. Sunday night was a bit better for me, but I think it's because I work at the beach so the onshore breeze helped a lot. | |||
Cyro Xero Rune Mage  Rave Atom  Since: 02-23-05 From: Minnesota!! Since last post: 2617 days Last activity: 2530 days |
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| L.A., L.A., L.A is on FIRE!!!
Sucks, though. I might think of the orange haziness to be pretty cool for a while, then I would start wanting to see the blue sky again. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 414 days Last activity: 222 days |
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Admittedly it looks cool, but it comes with some rather unsavory air. At first I thought it smelled nice, like being downwind of a bonfire, but after a while it becomes more and more difficult to take in and you eventually have to go inside and shutter all the windows as Elara mentions.
Originally posted by Elara Yeah, if you were further inland like I am it's worse. The coastal cities are cooler and have better air flow. Fullerton's even worse than Cerritos when it comes to getting cooler breezes. It's also much more humid in the summer. (Good grief, am I glad that Anime Expo's held in L.A. now and not hot-and-humid-as-hell Anaheim). Then again, like I mentioned, we get the "murder wind" known as the Santa Anas. I never really knew what people were talking about regarding them (like in Cerritos, the Santa Anas were never really intense) until I started spending a lot of time in Orange County. I'm really not kidding when I say you could go out into the heat and bear with it... but then these crazy strong winds will kick up. And you start to feel like you're walking into a dragon's yawn. It starts to make sense why O.C. people flock to the beaches all the time. It's where you can escape them. ***** To clarify, Cerritos is in Los Angeles County, as is Long Beach. A lot of people joke that L.A. County and the O.C. (by the way, Orange County natives HATE being called "the O.C." as many of them abhor being tied in with the FOX program by the same name) are rivals, which they often are. It's hard to describe but there are different mindsets. L.A. tends to be liberal, and the O.C. tends to be conservative. L.A. is reflected on as being generally poorer and more of one big metropolis, while the O.C. is "new money" (lots of millionaires who recently became so), beach-obsessed, smaller towns, and to be honest, rather flippant (at least the younger folks). L.A. is considered more culturally-diverse (and often believed to be harboring more illegal immigrants), while the O.C. is heavily-Caucasian and Asian (despite their supposedly having a higher population of Latinos that they sometimes prefer you don't talk about). Anyway, two different counties, two different ways of thinking, and two very prominent stereotypes. |
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