Many people not from California gripe that California has no seasons and that is why they don't like the state. That is fine by me, keeps more people out and maybe the real estate prices will keep coming down.
However, we do have seasons. We have the rainy-cold season (November through February). The green season after the rainy season. The golden-brown season that starts around May and lastly, the worst season of all, fire season. Yep, that period of time at the end of summer where everything is so dry from no rain for about 4 months that the grass has gone from gold to brown to what my daughter thought was sand.
We have two raging fires in areas around us and the sky looks like something out of a futuristic apocalyptic sci-fi movie. The sunsets are all hazy and the sun looks like a blurry small orange. The sunrises all are muted and the sky looks like we have fog. I am almost afraid to go outside and do any activity that requires heavy breathing. It looks like those bad smog days in Los Angeles when they warn you to stay inside.
The fire season really upsets me, because almost all of the fires are started by some idiot that was unsafe with fire or some psychotic arsonist. We don't really have thunderstorms in these areas so you can cross off lightning strikes from possible suspects for the catalyst. I know rain is months in coming and those firefighters are killing themselves to get the fire under control in all this heat and high wind. It gets me to thinking we really need to figure out how to make rain clouds. What an invention that would be, especially when fighting wildfires.
Hmm..... a rain cloud maker.....oh the possibilities.
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That one day when the sky was really hazy and thick from the fires, I was driving home wishing there was some huge vacuum I could use to suck it all up to see the blue sky. The Lick Fire (the one near MH) was started by a person burning trash in a 50 gallon drum! What a moron!
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