We're expecting a really terrible "fire season" this year. May 1st signalled the end of the official rain season and the beginning of fire season, although there's usually very little difference.
Flying into San Diego it's completely brown, as we're having the driest 2-year period in a century. Already, areas around Julian are burning, even though I'm surprised there's anything left to burn after the fires there a few years ago. People forget that we're in a desert, even though we are sitting right on the ocean.
And the really sad thing is that most of the time the authorities find out later that these really big fires were intentionally set, sometimes by pyromaniac firemen. Figure that one out.
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