So.

Don't everybody comment all at one time.

Heh. Fun posts! :)

I'm behind reading. As I said on your prior commentary, I'm so sorry about your friends. Please do not give even a tiny second thought to the small stuff, and keep yourself and friends and family safe first and foremost! :)

My Day Three review is now up:

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/08/20/democratic-convention-day-three-a-more-perfect-union/

check it out!

MtnCaddy [12] -

We're more "in town" by the coastline. The fires are up in the mountains, in heavy forest. Which is why we're pretty safe for the time being. Technically, we're east and south of 17.

-CW

Google "CZU Lightning Complex Fire" to see maps, etc.
If it jumps Route 9, that's bad. If it jumps Route 17, the whole county may burn.

-CW

Don't everybody comment all at one time.

Now I live in the mountains with the folks I'll be trapped with when the Big One happens and there's SO much liquifaction destruction "down the Hill" that noone will worry about us Hillbillies, a-yup!

Yes, but it was only seriously smokey for one day out of that whole week.

Another year I put up my BFF#2's whole family when fire burned right up through the houses across the street from him, in Running Springs 2007. It was like the 60's, maaan, communal living. Let Grandma and the wife sleep in my bed, me and Homeboy crash on the Living room floor, and kids and critters elsewhere scattered.

It sounds horrendous, doesn't it? But hell I'd rather deal with this or )the 30 seconds and it's over) earthquakes than, say, bugs and humidity and hurricanes in Florida, or the bitterness of Winter in our Badlands, or such-and-such.

It was great! I got to run red lights because there were only a handful of folks in the Valley. I read politics for 10 hours everyday at my Real Estate office, ate 4,500 calories a day and went quote overboard with the PPV Movies.*sigh*

And then everybody came back.

K, Elizabeth has the "prayer" thang covered. I'll work my end of it and have a chat with Satan (he goes by the name "Chuck" and we play poker every Tuesday night.) I'll say, "Comrade Chuck," (we're also both in the local Democratic Club,) "Let this Weigantian guy, er, Weigant LIVE. He has a lot more mischief to cause in this lifetime."

So now that there's DOUBLY no worries...make sure you review Joe's big acceptance speech tonight

Forget what Board Mother said. Worry DEEPLY and INTENSELY about the next column.

Semper Fi...this is bigger than all of us.

I feel ya. I live at 7200' in Green Valley Lake, Inland Empire, the highest town in California with more than 30 full timers. It's carved out of the San Bernardino National Forest and it's "one bar territory - if the wind is blowing in the right direction."

On Saturday all of the sudden there were choppers with water nozzles hanging underneath buzzing the lake, and two fire trucks roared by up to the campground at the end of the road. Turns out we had four separated lightening induced fires which they pounced upon and neutralized after drawing and dumping about 20,000 gallons of lake water on them.

"Earthquakes, Forest Fires, Mudslides and Freeway Shootings...

Signs that God is getting serious about destroying Southern California."

#SSDD