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Subject:   Re: Re: Re: Re: Hotter than.....(insert your own comment here)
Name:   Marsha
Date Posted:   Jul 12, 08 - 8:45 AM
Message:   The majority of the fires are, figuratively speaking, burning all around us. Since we live in the valley the smoke settles down on top of us. The air here is abominable and has been for weeks. It's smoky; gray; muggy; the sun and moon are orange and it looks like a sci-fi movie about the world ending. As it goes on day after day it is very eerie. People with allergies and bad lungs are struggling. We stay indoors and try not to breathe very deeply. The only positive was that the smoke acted like cloud cover and the dreadful heat we were supposed to have at the end of the week was dissipated and it didn't even hit 90 yesterday. Poor consolation for firefighters who have been working non-stop since May.

There were initially upwards of 1700 fires - 800 started in one day by one lightning storm. There are about 300 that remain uncontained. What a mess! The Big Sur fire has gotten lots of attention and I don't think they quite have that one under control yet, either. I hear that the burned acres total an area the size of Rhode Island.

Jim - I've lived in the North, the East, the mid-West, Florida, the "deep South",and California. That's why I still live in California. I don't "do" humidity. Doesn't work at all for me. I like to open my windows at night and enjoy the Delta breezes that cool my house. Humidity is brutal. My Sister got married in D.C. in July in the middle of a heatwave in 1996. I may never forgive her. I got heatstroke on the tourbus. I have painful memories of that visit.
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