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Looks like Southern California is on fire again. Not quite in my area this time, fortunately. The closest blaze to me personally is the "Hill" fire in Thousand Oaks, which is about 35-40 miles away from me as the crow flies. However, I have a cousin and aunt in the Camarillo/Oxnard area maybe 5 miles from the flames that have already been evacuated. (Safely, fortunately.) Always pretty dicey when our high winds start pushing the fire around. Weather people said to expects gusts up to 40-50MPH in the valleys today, and up to 70 in the hills. There's even been sightings of fire tornados reported.. kind of flaming dust-devils created when winds in and around the fire pick up flaming debris and carry it along, lighting new fires as they go.
Very not-fun. And yes, the "Hill" fire is only a couple miles away from the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks where the shooting took place yesterday. Tell me again why people keep moving to California?
https://www.wired.com/story/the-terrifying-science-behind-californias-massive-camp-fire/-
Been watching the satellite feed (via https://firemap.sdsc.edu/ ) Looks pretty scary south and west of me. Hopefully the winds will stay down overnight. A bit of moisture would be nice too, but probably not going to happen. At least we're not in the middle of a summer heat wave.
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