San Diego Is Burning

Tonight is the second night of the "firestorm" in San Diego. There are fires to the southeast and to the northwest, but aside from the dry weather and warm Santa Ana winds, there's not much going on downtown to indicate that 500 houses have burned, 250,000+ people have been evacuated, and who knows how many thousands of acres have burned. These fires are being called the worst wild fires in the state's history. I've been obsessively listening to the news all day, which has made it even more unreal because I haven't seen any coverage, and there's not so much as an ash floating around in the air here.

I feel like I should be out volunteering but at the same time I just don't want to leave the house. I am one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to evacuate.

So the weather folks have been predicting this since Friday because of the Santa Ana weather conditions. Why do I have the nagging suspicion that real estate agents are responsible for this? Ok, maybe not responsible, but they must be gleefully tapping their finger tips in anticipation of a housing shortage to revive the bubble.

Cynical? Why, yes.

Seriously, losing a home and a lifetime of memories would be awful. Between fires and foreclosures, San Diego homeowners are not having a good year.