Smoke, No Mirrors, Part 2

I’ve been a little busy watching news about the fires.  I also learned that it’s impossible to get news from TV until after it happens.  They were about ten to fifteen miles off on the fire location.  Surprise!  It’s in your backyard!

Well, not quite, but you get the idea.  There are also lots of other “I’ve been busy” things to put here, but I know that’s boring reading.  So I’ll skip that part.

Which brings us to the smoke.  Lots of it.  In some really cool pictures of the Simi Incident, as it’s now called.  If the specific link doesn’t work, try MODIS Fire Imagery

See what I’ve been putting up with?  All the smoke seems to be backed up before it goes over the Santa Monica Mountains.  That explains why I couldn’t breath or see the sun at all on both Sunday and most of today.  For some reason, most of it stayed higher in the air Saturday, which provided some nice pictures and kept it clear enough that I could see the flames in spite of what the TV news was telling me about how far away it was.