RE: Fires

We have relatives in CA and always worry more about the pollutants than the
fires.


> [Original Message]
> From: Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI
<cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 11/17/2008 11:03:38 AM
> Subject: [CHAT] Fires
>
> Once again we are spending hours glued to the TV watching the fire
> coverage.  We're not in any danger at my house; one of the big ones is
> about 30 miles from here but we're not even getting smoke from it.  On
> Saturday we were supposed to take DH's sisters out to a place where they
> have this little tourist train excursion. We saw that several freeways
> were closed near where they live but the closures weren't where we were
> going, we'd be okay we thought. However we neglected to consider that
> everyone on the freeways would be looking for alternate routes...what a
> mess. We ended up driving north for miles out of our way - couldn't go
> back, the roads were gridlocked - and making a huge loop to eat lunch
> near our house, then drive the sisters back home. I bet we put 200 miles
> on the car so we could have lunch 3 miles from our own house. But of
> course that's nothing compared to what thousands of other folks are
> going through with evacuations and their homes destroyed.
> So no gardening for me this weekend, Saturday was wasted and Sunday we
> took the horses out for a long ride. Very nice weather actually, we're
> not getting the wind like they are in the canyons down south. If it
> weren't for that I'd be enjoying the warmth.
>
> Cyndi
>
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