San Diego fires

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Kingswood, yes, but there's a good deal of uninhabited land cheek by jowl with the houses, so damage to houses varies by quite a bit. A fair bit of the terrain being burned over is hillsides and arroyos. Some country houses peppering the fire areas irregularly. It's almost the kind of crapshoot tornado destruction is.

Cloud's nonwindy thoughts seem to be taking some effect; the force of the Santa Ana winds (named after the canyon(s) that winds from the northeast funnel through, coming off the deserts of the Mojave and most of Nevada, playing upon the greater Los Angeles area like the draft from furnace ducts) weakened today at least in Ventura county. The forecast has the Santa Ana winds dying out tomorrow as the high-pressure area over Nevada moves north, and quits dancing quite so closely with a low-pressure area over the nearby ocean -- when they are close together and strong, their winds get damned fierce. A mountain peak I can see from my block recorded wind like a Cat-III hurricane, gusting at 111 mph. Today we were getting wind from the usual quarter, off the water. We didn't smell smoke today, though it's still clouding the sky.

V, you're naughty!:p