Most Peculiar, Mama

What a week.

Looks like the fire has subsided a bit, for the time being. I can't even see much smoke this morning. Yesterday, the leading eastern edge of the blaze more or less fizzled. The main focus of the firefighting is now on the western edge of the mountain. They evacuated a different subdivision and have periodically closed the highway along the foot of the mountain.

I spoke with a coworker who lives across the highway from the western foot of the mountain, and she said she could actually hear the fire yesterday afternoon. Disconcerting, I would think.

Meanwhile, the weather is not cooperating in the slightest. The National Weather Service has issued what they call a red flag warning, meaning that fire danger is extremely high. It's supposed to be warm, very windy, with very low humidity and a chance of dry thunderstorms in the afternoon. It really wouldn't help to have any new fires sparked.


And what of this whole JonBenet Ramsey thing? That dude they arrested appears (to me, at least) to be pegging out the creepometer.