Disasters

I Predicted an Earthquake!

My prediction came to pass.

Mudslides in the Burned Over District

I often passed St. Sophia's when I sneaked up the canyon with my parents' car, a cream colored Ford Fairlane.

Ding Dong, Ho Hum for Us

I guess I must have been napping when today's tremblor brought down a cheap belltower in Paso Robles and raised the altitude of the surrounding hills by a foot.

San Bernardino Fires: Approaching Disaster

If we get two or three days of heavy rain, you may be reading about houses sliding off the hillsides and homes spared by the fires being washed away.

California Wildfires
Here's a photo site dedicated to California wildfires by a San Diego firefighter....

The Fires

What can we learn from the ashes?

Bush and The Fires

For Californians, the Bush Administration's failure to pre-empt the underlying causes of the California wildfires is our World Trade Center attack.

RAIN!

I heard water. Water that I first suspected was flowing from a hose as it dribbled off the decks.

Cops at the San Bernardino Fire

Thank you, San Bernardino Police and San Bernardino Sheriff for aiding and assisting the efforts to contain the Old Fire in San Bernardino County. Thank you for being there. We owe you much

San Bernardino Fire Information

The SBfirehelp@alsirat.com now redirects to inlandempire.arc@verizon.org. Feel free to use either of this addresses on your web site to publicize help or to volunteer directly.

Current Old Fire Information

Here's hoping to 100% containment on Saturday

Arnold Pretends and Poses

It is sinking in that while Gray Davis is heroically manning the helm of the ship of state during this crisis, Arnold is doing nothing but politicking.

Is this the man?

Your guess is as good as mine.

New England Style Doesn't Work for California

For months and months fire stations around here have posted the sign: Got Clearance?

Excerpt from a Commentary on Fire

As I cringe at the base of our mountains, in an area on a hill and surrounded by chaparral and Republican voters, I hope that the winds remain calm as they were yesterday.

Orange Sun over The Orange

Enroute to Barnes and Noble for a writing discussion, a fire truck came out of the station on El Toro. The line of cars I was in froze. We all turned to look....

Southern California Wildfires Explained

Now that the hills are denuded, we face the winter with trepidation. Those whose houses survived the strange hopscotching of the blaze now watch the clouds.

Job in San Bernardino

While we gaped at these horrors, a man in a yellow shirt and a golf hat came up to us. He was in tears. He introduced himself to us as "Ruben" and he pointed, saying, "That's my house".

San Bernardino Fire 2

Note on an Apocalypse

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 38:2

San Bernardino Fire 1

Live from San Bernardino

My mother's house is still standing. The dreadful but cheerful news is that a good portion of the land between her neighborhood and the fire is incinerated.

This Morning's News

Time for Fox News to stop being a corporate shill and report the news realistically. If you want the news, don't watch the Happy Pill Channel.

Fire in My Mother's Neighborhood

If you live in Southern California and have time to volunteer this week, send email to SBfirehelp@alsirat.com

Season of the Dragon

A few weeks from now, the first drops of rain will pierce the hard-baked crust left over from summer and bathe the woody roots of the pallid scrub that clump along the sandstone spines and domes of Whiting Canyon like fresh hair implants on a stark scalp.