Miss M came into the office around noon yesterday. She told me that of the seven houses on her street only hers and her next door neighbor’s were still standing. The two houses below hers burned on the first day of the fire and the three on the ridge above her were destroyed on the second day of the fire. One of her neighbors who is vacationing in Tahiti found out their house was a total loss via the internet. Miss G found the picture above on the web. It shows her neighbor’s houses on the ridge engulfed in flames.
Miss M is doing better that expected. She came into to work because she was tired of staying in the shelter where people are anxiously awaiting news about their homes. Miss M knows that life in her peaceful canyon will never be the same.
Ugh, I could not imagine!
A few years ago, the forest surrounding my hometown was on fire and for the entire summer, all you could hear was choppers carrying water. It felt like the movie Platoon with the heat and the smoke and the choppers. My mom filled the trunk of her car with all her photos and home videos, that’s all she wanted to save.
We are all at the mercy of Mother Nature.