John Cummings
TUG Lifetime Member
Boy was I wrong. Now there are fires all over Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties as well as Santa Barbara. Santa Ana's are common in November but usually we have had some rain so the fire danger is relatively low at this time of the year. Normally the bad fire season is in September and October. However, we have only had a couple of drizzles since last April.
The fire in Corona has burned over 500 mobile homes and jumped the 91 freeway and is up in Anaheim hills. Of course whenever this happens, traffic becomes a mess. My daughter drove over from Los Angeles to pick me up here in Murrieta to go to the the Los Angeles King's hockey game at the Staples Center last night. We were supposed to meet in Corona. However, freeway 91 was closed due to the Corona fire so she had to take the Southerly route as everybody else did. In any event we finally arrived at the game at 9:30 pm with just 13 minutes left to go in the game. Normally we would have been at the Staples Center by 7:00 pm.
Of course this was very minor compared to the poor folks who have lost their homes.
So far it has been very dry. I am hoping for a very wet winter or we are going to have very severe water rationing. They have already announced that Southern California will only get 15% of their water allotment next year unless we get some very serious rain. There is still hope as February and March are the 2 wettest months of the year.
The fire in Corona has burned over 500 mobile homes and jumped the 91 freeway and is up in Anaheim hills. Of course whenever this happens, traffic becomes a mess. My daughter drove over from Los Angeles to pick me up here in Murrieta to go to the the Los Angeles King's hockey game at the Staples Center last night. We were supposed to meet in Corona. However, freeway 91 was closed due to the Corona fire so she had to take the Southerly route as everybody else did. In any event we finally arrived at the game at 9:30 pm with just 13 minutes left to go in the game. Normally we would have been at the Staples Center by 7:00 pm.
Of course this was very minor compared to the poor folks who have lost their homes.
So far it has been very dry. I am hoping for a very wet winter or we are going to have very severe water rationing. They have already announced that Southern California will only get 15% of their water allotment next year unless we get some very serious rain. There is still hope as February and March are the 2 wettest months of the year.
About a mile away, several of the houses had burned down. A little further down, 50 apartment units were destroyed. Its going to be a sad day tomorrow at my kid's elementary school.
