Fires

So, my state is on fire. Again. The closest fire to me is actually in my city, but I'm about 10 miles from the very edge of it (give or take some). The air around me is very smoky and cloudy, and you can see the fires quite well from my area. (My actual apartment is behind a hill, so I can't see. But the view from the hill is amazing.) I'm not in an evacuation area, since the fire seems to be going the other direction, which is nice for me, but horrible for the huge housing community that it's plowing through. They've shut down the 91 freeway which, if you don't know the area, is the only major through way to get from Orange County to Riverside County. So tomorrow, instead of taking a straight 30 mile shot to my parent's to pick up my dad for the hockey game, I have to take a huge out of the way roundabout route that's about 49 miles and takes twice the amount of time, assuming there's no traffic. And, yeah, this is southern California. We have traffic at 2am on Tuesday mornings, let alone midday on Sunday. However, I'd rather have hours and hours of traffic than lose my home, so I shall shut my mouth about it, and start collecting things to donate to the people who have lost everything.