Man, those pictures are incredible...and terrifying! God am I ever glad I live on the good side of the moutains. We still have fires, but they don't get anywhere near this close to our home. Brushfires and housefires are more of a risk here, and floods (which thankfuly I live halfway up the hill of a valley, so even when it floods, it dosn't hit our house spacificly). ::shakes head:: I really don't know how you can stand this year after year. The tention would just kill me.
Do you think a picture of the red moon would turn out, though? That's something I'd love to see...
Actually, I'm pretty sure a picture would come out (why have I never thought of doing that before?) and the next time we have a red moon I'll try to snap a few. So far though, this time around, the smoke has left us alone. For a few hours earlier we thought for sure that it was coming over, but the winds changed (again) and that was the end of that.
Sometimes the smoke changes the tone of daylight too; suddenly everything is cast in an orangey-red hue. Very eerie.
And as far as tension goes, we've never actually been threatened by fire here in VV... we just get to watch it from afar. My fear of earthquakes is much more substantial. ;-)
I know, which is why when I heard there'd been a 4.5 this morning not too far from you, I had a moment of "oh god, what next, Locuts!?!" ::shakes head:: At least it wasn't bigger. Though...I do supose the fires would go out if the state fell into the ocean... Silver lineing and all that.
There was a quake this morning?? I felt nothing, and The Bird did not freak out (which she did do two weeks ago, when we had a 4.3 around 1am in Wrightwood).
I just looked it up...do you mean the quake in Ridgecrest? That would have been too far away for us to feel here. Which is good, because seriously...the "nuclear winter/apocalypse now" comparisons have been getting a leeetle too prolific lately.
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Do you think a picture of the red moon would turn out, though? That's something I'd love to see...
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Sometimes the smoke changes the tone of daylight too; suddenly everything is cast in an orangey-red hue. Very eerie.
And as far as tension goes, we've never actually been threatened by fire here in VV... we just get to watch it from afar. My fear of earthquakes is much more substantial. ;-)
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I just looked it up...do you mean the quake in Ridgecrest? That would have been too far away for us to feel here. Which is good, because seriously...the "nuclear winter/apocalypse now" comparisons have been getting a leeetle too prolific lately.
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