Sunday, November 16, 2008

All smoked out

If you've been watching the news lately I'm sure you've noticed that the LA area is (again) on fire.

The fires are a lot closer to Biola than last year, actually. The major one they're fighting is only 15 miles away. The sky is definitely nasty, and it hurts a little to breathe. Unfortunately I've been battling a bit of a throat cold this past week, so this fire situation is not helping. Also, it was raining ash today when I got up, and my car was covered--wild.

But I'm okay. Biola's pretty safe because we're not near any large areas of vegetation. It tends to be the outlying areas of LA and Orange counties that get hit.

It's been pretty exciting to cover the situation, though. I've spent many hours in the Chimes office these past few days writing an article and getting information (go to The Chimes Online to see our coverage).

There really has been a lot of devastation. Nearly a thousand homes have burned down, including an entire mobile home park. Tomorrow I'll be following through with Campus Safety and the Health Center to see what they have to say about the situation.


Smelling like smoke,

Michael


P.S. The picture I put at the top is one I took while going through Anaheim. If you look closely you can see the famous Crystal Cathedral church in the background. This picture is gross, but it's much worse in person--especially since you can smell the smoke as well as see it.