Yesterday we woke up to an LA we didn’t recognize. Wild winds and a hazy film over the sun. We watched the news following fires around the city, the evacuation zones grow wider until the border was so close to the major intersection near our house that I stood up and packed the ‘go bag’. Something I’ve never done before. Passports, birth certificates, winter coats for the kids. Our most important possessions, swept into a few boat & totes. Everything feels important until you have 30 minutes and then nothing feels important at all.
We made it through the night and were able to stay in our house, but so many people have lost everything. Truly the destruction and loss is too much to bear. Homes, business and schools on such a massive scale it’s hard to comprehend how life here will ever look the same.
It’s not over by any means and incomprehensibly fires are still popping up. We’ve been putting together bags of clothes and toiletries for people who’ve lost their homes, and I’m including b…
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