Not Again!
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86875)
United States
October 11, 2019 6:40am CST
Different parts of America have different seasons. The east coast has the hurricane season. We have tornado season. And Los Angeles has fire season.
I woke not too long ago and checked my Facebook feed. The first thing I saw was a photo from a friend in L.A., taken when he took his trash to the curb. The night sky was orange from a fire.
Not again! 
I guess they are “used” to it, when the Santa Ana winds kick up and can turn a match into an inferno.
But I never “get used” to tornado season. I just learn to deal with the fact (I have my Twitter app set to notify me of any tornado warning, not just here but anywhere in the country; and, I have a weather radio in my car as well as my home so I can be aware on the road).
I guess that’s how people in California are.
I know they have my prayers.
I guess they are “used” to it, when the Santa Ana winds kick up and can turn a match into an inferno.
But I never “get used” to tornado season. I just learn to deal with the fact (I have my Twitter app set to notify me of any tornado warning, not just here but anywhere in the country; and, I have a weather radio in my car as well as my home so I can be aware on the road).
I guess that’s how people in California are.
I know they have my prayers.13 people like this
11 responses
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Oct 19
The brush fire is Granada Hills/Porter Ranch/Symar which is the other end of the SFV from me. I worked out there for 10 years so having the 210 closed would have been a headache having to take city streets to work. Strange that winds ignited the brush fire because there has not been a whisper of a breeze here. We would not have so many brush fire issues if the environmentalists who run the government did not believe every dried up plant leaf is sacred and not to be touched. Long ago in the dark ages of my youth, there were controlled burnings and physical clearing out of dried bush. That is all forbidden now in the name of preserving the environment.
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@FourWalls (86875)
• United States
11 Oct 19
But....but...but....prop 65 says that nature is known by the state of California to cause cancer!!!! You can’t!!!!
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Oct 19
@FourWalls Right and San Francisco says what needles? What poop?
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Oct 19
@FourWalls I'll never go up there again. Glad I got in games while I could. They have a certain arrogant sneering attitude up there which is hilarious because Oakland has nothing to be arrogant about. I hope the MLB makes good on the threat to move the A's to Vegas. Can you say road trip?
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
11 Oct 19
I think it has been several really bad fire years.
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@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
12 Oct 19
I lived in Sacramento for 25 years, we had numerous times where our skies were grey for most of the summer, the air nearly unbreathable from the fires to our south and west. I even had a park guest approach me one time asking where the sun was. Did we always have no sun. Those bad years negatively affect people hundreds of miles away.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
12 Oct 19
@cperry2 watching from the distance it is scary.
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@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
13 Oct 19
@DocAndersen I could not agree more. When we could see the flames in the hills between Chatsworth and Simi Valley, we always worried that the wind could blow it down into the homes.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Oct 19
I am in the middle of SFV . . . smoke everywhere (some places worse than others). Our home is in a safe area, but oh we know many people who are in this wildfire area (the hills) . . . as we have not heard from them, we are hoping they are all ok (surely they have been evacuated). It's a hair breezy here (the winds were worse yesterday), but the hills are often very windy . . . we can see how the Sylmar fires spread over to the Granada/Porter Ranch area last night.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Oct 19
@FourWalls Thank you! Dealing with traffic and smoke. Going to the store earlier, people were in those particle masks. Also in the parking lots, people were hanging out in their packed trucks/cars - a couple of the local evacuation centers are full. Like I said, we are in the middle of the valley, so we are away from the actual fires . . . but we go through those areas and know those places well . . . always a high chance of fire there. Looking at the news now, 0% containment - eek.
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@FourWalls (86875)
• United States
11 Oct 19
Oh, how I hate to hear that! I pray you (and John and everyone else) stays safe!!!
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@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
12 Oct 19
The santa anna winds ---- I always lived down in the San Fernando Valley in the Los Angeles area. Often we could see the glow of the fires, or on occasion we could see the flames. Nothing ever got close enough to threaten our home but we kept a close watch. Stay safe down there.
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@LeaPea2417 (40058)
• Toccoa, Georgia
11 Oct 19
I would hate to live in that area.
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@FourWalls (86875)
• United States
11 Oct 19
Me too. John’s right, there’s more damage with the tornadoes and floods (I went to Johnstown, PA earlier this year, which has been destroyed by three major floods; and one of the places I want to go is the trail of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest tornado in US history). However, we had ample warning about Hurricane Dorian (which thankfully missed). In the March 2 2012 tornado outbreak they were warning about it a week in advance, to the point where businesses and schools were closing early when the tornado watch was issued. My friend went to bed last night and there was no fire. He woke up this morning and the hill behind his house was on fire. What kind of warning did he have?
Either place, though, it’s scary.
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@LeaPea2417 (40058)
• Toccoa, Georgia
11 Oct 19
@FourWalls I agree. I really am afraid of tornadoes and floods. There was a F1 tornado here many years ago that did some damage to a few businesses & homes roofs. My husband was at work that day and barely missed it. I had been in town right before it struck, luckily I got home right before it struck.
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@LindaOHio (222806)
• United States
11 Oct 19
Every part of the country has its own challenges; and we try to deal with them the best that we can...and pray for the others.
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@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
12 Oct 19
Not something I would want to deal with either. I don't mind rain, but having the sky open up and try to drown everything on a regular basis? no thanks.
@teamfreak16 (43663)
• Denver, Colorado
12 Oct 19
We have a pretty good one going in Colorado, near Salida. Wildfires suck.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
13 Oct 19
@FourWalls
I grew up in Minneapolis so we had tornado season and here in Jerusalem I felt an earth quake. We also here in Israel have different seasons too. In the North in the Golan for skiing purposes they have snow. In the south in Eilat it is like Florida and very nice weather. In Jerusalem we have winter but at times a mild one. We have had snow here and it is still nice weather. In December it gets cold and also in January, February and March. We have fires here in Israel it is not fun either.
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@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
12 Oct 19
I lived in LA for several years, you do become accustomed to the fires to a degree. I am a Door's fan (Rock Group from late 60's) The song "LA Woman" has a mention of the fires in the hills surrounding the city. I've also lived in tornado alley. Let me say that the tornado warnings and having to stay up at night to keep an eye on the weather was a lot worse than the occasional dusting of my car with ash from the fires nearby.
I'll take my home in the Pacific Northwest where our only consistent issue is rain. We have threats of a major earth quake in the next 50 years. (1 in 3 chance supposedly) with a likely tsunami following. I live high enough in the hills to avoid that water if I survive the quake. I doubt there is anywhere on this planet that one does not suffer some sort of threat.
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@WriterRuth (268)
• Waialua, Hawaii
11 Oct 19
No doubt they would appreciate your much needed prayers. I remember there was a joke a while back about the 4 seasons in California: fires, floods, drought, and ? I can't recall the 4th. Floods (so to speak) because of the droughts. The ground gets hard and the rain does not seep in.
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