Was That Just Last Week?
Without full containment yet, many are already looking forward to begin the recovery, even with still blurry and red eyes.
When I think about the wildfires that scoured the North
Coast of California this past week, I come up with a hodgepodge of visuals – waking
up to the red glow out of my bedroom window on Sunday night when it all started, a
bulldozer cutting a firebreak a half mile from my home Tuesday night and saving my block, watching the heartbreaking
sight of a neighbor’s home burn to the ground on a ridge Monday morning, seeing blood red sunsets, the feeling of relief when power finally came back on, and being unable to sleep listening to my cellphone screaming out Nixle Alerts every half
hour telling me about a new evacuation, wondering when it would be my turn.
There are so many stressful points from the past week from which I have a lot of new stories to tell, and lots of pictures that
I’ve shared on social media. It was a week that seemed more like a month, reinforced by a blur of numbingly shocking scenes.
