The past few days have been crazy/scary/weird! Fires are still raging across the bay, several of my friends are evacuated (thankfully no-one has lost their house…yet) and I get a lot of questions from my friends and family (and even a couple of emails from some bloggers), if we’re ok. Well, we are, I don’t feel like we should be complaining considering other people have it way worse so I’m just gonna explain what’s going on here in Santa Monica:

We’ve been warned to go outside because the air is so bad, filled with ash and smoke, when I walk to and from work it feels like there’s no oxygen in the air. Temperatures are climbing into the 40′s and inhaling the air burns the throat and lungs because it’s so hot and dry, it feels like stepping into a superdry sauna! We can actually see the fires and smoke from our apt . and we get woken up by airplanes (carrying water) and sirenes every morning and the sky looks like it’s sunset all day long…