This fire shit is completely fucked
It's been a chaotic few days in LA!!
Two nights ago, we headed out around 5 PM for an evening event and drove past the oil fields along La Cienega to get there. Apparently an hour after we passed, this fire started there from a downed power line. It was doused within two hours, but it was a sharp reminder that this whole city is studded with wildland - or partially-wild land - and that in winds like these, anything can happen.
The Palisades fire has taken out some places important to several people we know... and the Eaton fire has more directly affected the homes a ton of people we know. Several of my favorite hikes burned in the last few days. A lot of the news I'm hearing is about intersections and neighborhoods I can immediately recall with my mind's eye - places I know that well. I'm so lucky that everyone I know is healthy and safe, but it's a fucking gut punch to know that the places they and I care about, and even their homes, don't exist anymore.
If you live in LA, be ready to leave! And be ready to leave before shit gets bad. These winds are blasting embers all over the place. In the Pasadena city press conference on Wednesday, a fire chief said that the wind can throw a burning ember two fucking miles under conditions like these.
I cannot wait for the first heavy rains of the season. And I cannot wait for the air to be less thick with smoke! I am hoping to be able to get out and bike and start filming roads end to end for YouTube sometime soon. It's crazy that several of the roads I was planning on filming are in the neighborhoods that are now partially burned to the ground. Fucking bonkers.
We've had such a wet Los Angeles for the last few winters. I hope we can get that again!!