FIRE

So basically fire is a bad thing. It does no good. Contained bonfires, contained fires in fireplaces, candles, those are alright because you can control them. Wildfires, not so much.

Anyway in case you live in a box or a cave or hole somewhere, Southern California is on fire. Location of apparently the worst fires: San Diego.

SDSU was one of the last (maybe the last) school to be closed yesterday as of 1pm. Kind of weird. It's like a snow day or something. We weren't evacuated because the campus was threatened, but to reduce traffic for people evacuating and because the air quality was (and is) poor.

Well nothing was on tv last night except fire coverage (so good thing I have cable to escape some of the coverage that was no new info, just the same images and info for hours) so my roommate and I were nervous. We couldn't sleep and at 2:30am she decided she was going to pack. So we got out our suitcases and put clothes and shoes in, got books, pictures and other personal items together. We packed her Corolla basically to the max and watched the news to decide what we wanted to do. At about 4:30 we decided that the evacuation area was spreading and we were uneasy about 'Would it spread to evacuate our area? Would we have time to get out?' so we left. We left furniture, food, dishes, our printers, tv and other random things we didn't feel we needed.

We got back here by like 7:30am. We don't think our apartment is going to burn down or get close enough to it, but we just felt better being home and away from it all. As I wrote this, I got word that class has been canceled for the rest of the week. Everyone should pray for all areas and people effected by the fire and that they can get some containment on it soon. (even if you aren't religious you can hope for good things and keep positive thoughts that this will end soon.)