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In lugnet.legoland.california, Scott Costello wrote:
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In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote:
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(Fire got within 3000 feet of our home in Irvine on Monday.)
-Ted
SCLTC
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Glad to hear that everything is alright, I knew that section of the fire was
terribly close to the Michon compound. I was worried #1 about you guys and
your safety, but also #2 about the toxic cloud that would have covered all of
Irvine if all your LEGO pieces melted.
We had a little flare up about 6 miles from our house, but we have enough
houses around us to buffer us. I have a few family members who have been
evacuated, and we are hoping for the best. This is by far the worst I can
ever remember, and those crazy winds weren’t helping.
Scott
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Scott-
I always though when I moved to CA from CT once-upon-a-time that I was moving to
the land of earthquakes, not fires, but over the years the fires have really
dominated (of course, that will probably change when the long overdue BIG ONE
finally hits). I remember going on the roof top in Pasadena one fire set in the
1970s and seeing fires in every direction. Twenty years later I was in CT with
David seeing my mom after she had had a stroke. As I walked into her room, the
TV was showing fires in Irvine in the hills near our house. Back home, Susan and
Thomas were told to get ready to evacuate. The dry wind and high temperatures
and the arsonists are a constant threat each year in southern CA. The worst
thing to happy to us was the night we came home following a fire truck for two
miles (!) that headed to Northwood, through our neighborhood gate, and down our
street. A neighbor’s house 3 houses down had caught one of its own fireplace
embers on its roof and burned. (We were very happy when we replaced our shake
roof with the concrete-like ones.)
-Ted
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