Christeph: On the Lam » fire http://www.nomadicsiren.org/japan Figuring out what to do with ourselves after northern Japan. Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:36:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 San Diego on fire again http://www.nomadicsiren.org/japan/2007/10/san-diego-on-fire-again/ http://www.nomadicsiren.org/japan/2007/10/san-diego-on-fire-again/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:15:23 +0000 Chris http://www.nomadicsiren.org/japan/2007/10/25/san-diego-on-fire-again/ I didn’t hear about the southern-California wildfires until my mom told me about them on the phone yesterday. Since then I’ve been riveted by the Flickr community’s photos that are constantly being uploaded by photographers all over the region.

You can get an idea of the scale of this thing from this map from KPBS.

San Diego Fires 2007

The amazing thing is that this map covers as much area as the entire prefecture that we live in in Japan.

It’s deja vu all over again. We lived in San Diego for four years before moving to Japan, and the fire pictures are taking us back to 2003 when some of the same areas burned at almost exactly the same dates, starting on October 26 and continuing for several days after.

Our thoughts are with our friends in San Diego, particularly John and Kathie who live directly between the north and south fires.

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