Deja Vu 2003 ~ SoCal Fire and Havoc
As I write this, friends of mine are being evacuated from their homes due to all the wildfires burning throughout Southern California.
In 2003, I was in the same boat. ‘Cept, I was working on a movie called Havoc.
This year, I’m hoping for the best. It seems worse this time, though. I dunno why, it just does. I’m also hearing that more homes are either threatened or have already burned. Maybe that’s why it seems worse.
In 2003, Jen and I were working on Angel In Moonlight. She called me asking when I was going to send her whatever the scene we were working on and I said, “Ummm, Jen…I’m packing up my dolls. There are helicopters over my house at all hours and I’m probably gonna have to evacuate. It’s gonna be a little while before you get the scene back.” It hadn’t hit her until that very moment that my house was threatened.
What’s kinda odd is that it actually still hadn’t hit me yet! I was packing stuff up, but I didn’t actually feel threatened. It didn’t hit until the fireman came into my house, telling me that I really needed to get my stuff and get out. But also, once it hit me, it was so out of my control anyway that I forced myself to shrug it off and cross my fingers that everything would be okay. I just went on with my life–modifying plans as necessary. I couldn’t come up with anything better to do with my evacuation time.
Right now, for me, the scariest thing is that the wind is blowing toward my house. There are two fires in my area. One would have to go through the whole city before it got to my place, so I’m not real worried about that one. The other, well, it’s close to the area that burned in 2003. It’d still take a few days to get all the way over here, though. I’m not hearing helicopters non-stop, so that’s encouraging. I’m worried for friends, not myself.
But, bottom line, now that I’ve been through it once, I’m much better prepared. I know more about what to expect if I have to pack up my stuff (turtles and tortoises included!) and evacuate.
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