…Are no match for Mother Nature. As I’m sure you’ve seen on the news, there are multiple wildfires burning in southern California, including two very large ones in San Diego County. One out of every three people in San Diego County has had to evacuate their home at some point since Sunday. Fortunately, Lee and I have been able to stay put, and our home was never threatened. As I write this on Tuesday night the Santa Ana winds have died down and the winds are primarily coming from the ocean now, which has helped firefighters tremendously. There are still areas burning out of control, though.

The air quality here has been quite poor (not surprisingly!), and we’ve had to stay inside and limit activity as much as possible. So, it appears I won’t get in any of my training runs this week. In the grand scheme of things that’s certainly quite unimportant, of course! For a while we were wondering if we’d be able to leave as scheduled this Friday morning, since if there was any chance of the fire getting close to us we’d want to be here to evacuate the cats and our computers. Things are looking pretty good at this point, though of course we will be watching the situation closely.

Please think good thoughts for the firefighters and all those who have been evacuated, and especially those who have lost their homes.

Laura