Hello lovely people! I’m back from living a nightmare: The Kenneth Fire and the Pacific Palisades Fire were threatening our neighborhood and we experienced living in a war zone! Electricity out and no internet since Tuesday afternoon until this Saturday morning at 1:30am (notification said there could still be interruptions in service). Note: Here is a VERY brief summary of my experience!
First, it was terrifying to try to evacuate when the 101 freeway going North or South were a literal parking lot AND getting off the freeway to work surface streets were ALSO a parking lot everywhere! Yes, we know to always keep a full tank of gas and we’re prepared but you still worry! We worked our way back home because we were listening to the radio and the news reports stated the “Emergency Immediate Evacuation” orders were sent to everyone everywhere regardless of proximity to any danger and that the County and State Officials were apologizing for their mistake! (The Democrats are fk’ing with people: later we saw a Local Reporter’s live interview of Gov. Gavin Newscum and he was smiling almost gleefully laughing as he was expressing how the state will support the people, but his face IN NO WAY matched his words!).
Second, everyone in this neighborhood was supporting each other but some had left for places like Las Vegas and Arizona and some had struggled but managed to find hotels but those places lost power also: as a result some returned to pack more items to leave the state for a while. A significant number remained to let the traffic flow lighten up in case we needed to leave and we wanted to know about power and fuel availability in Ventura County California (when the power is out the gas pumps can’t pump gas: ALSO Tesla car owners were furious because they were stuck).
Third, Friday at about 9:pm an arsonist set fire to a neighbor’s fence and the plants alongside it: that neighbor was home and saw immediately and confronted the criminal, but couldn’t hold onto him because he had to put out that fire 🔥 I saw it from my house and it looked to reach 6 feet in height. Thank God our neighbor got that fire out fast! So many neighbors jumped when we saw the flames and got out with powerful lights and searched all houses up and down the street and some got in their cars and drove around the neighborhood! These wonderful men kept their patrols going till daylight! The Fire Department did send a fire truck quickly and a sheriff came too! About two hours later, the power company Southern California Edison sent out a truck and spoke to one of the neighbors patrolling and he told them that we need power restored to discourage arsonists. I believe the company knows that public safety is a consideration on MANY levels so, given that neighboring communities had been restored to power a day earlier and we were not now in fire danger except from arsonists, they did give us power including the internet at 1:30 am.
Finally, there is so much widespread ongoing trama and high winds are expected, although the wind here is not blowing at all, the nerves are raw, I’ve seen some neighbors crying because of the extreme fear they experienced. Most people like myself are just exhausted beyond measure, so I’m just going to recover my own nerves and sleep, and more sleep and just try to rebalance to my feisty self: I won’t be posting for this weekend at least. The sirens can still be heard but thankfully at a distance and the helicopters are still flying so it’s still very active and we’re not letting our guard down and cars will remain packed because we’re not one hundred percent out of the woods.
Final Note: DON’T let anyone or any news report tell you that ARSONISTS weren’t out here setting fires! I know of several people who had their experiences encountering ARSONISTS.
It happened right here just four houses away! Thanks everyone…I posted this for anyone who is curious and concerned about how the public is so abused in this country: billions to Ukraine but not enough money for Fire Departments or public safety in general: the global elites, the UNIPARTY especially DEMOCRATS are total psychopaths! My anger is on the horizon!