He's got a poignant post up at his blog here. What's valuable to us, really, and what is just distraction and chaff? Events like this sometimes clarify. Heartfelt condolences to Gerard and all the good folks from Paradise.
I happen to be working north of there, in Redding right now, and one of our office's employees was coming back from Marysville, and got caught in the traffic jam after the authorities closed Highway 99, one of two major north/south arteries in Nor Cal.
It took seven hours to get back to Redding.
Watch this. It's just amazing when they suddenly emerge from the fire.
Tragic.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter and I stayed in Calabasas back in 2011. She was thinking Pepperdine U. so we checked out the area. Went to Malibu via Malibu Canyon Road and it was a spectacular drive. Now I guess it's all pretty much gone. Sad!
ReplyDeleteDude's knuckles looked clenched pretty tight.
ReplyDeleteI've a number of acquaintances and friends who lived in Paradise, all of whom, fortunately, have survived.
ReplyDeleteSome even have homes to which they will be able to return.
Sadly, another acquaintance lost a lifelong friend in the fire.