At 17:12 -0800 31.10.2003, David Silberstein wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, lazarus wrote: > > >Well, I live in San Diego. We came through the fires okay, although > >it was a /very/ close thing. Three blocks from here, actually. > > And it is good that you are well. > > >What was cool, however, was Tuesday. I finally got to see exactly > >what The Empire looks like, as we had an amazing low dense cloud > >cover, orangish red, which cast a strange tint on everything. It was > >really bizarre. Yes, I thought of the Enclouding, too. I was in turmoil here in Wisconsin, because my parents were evacuated on Sunday from the house I grew up in (in Valley Center *on* Paradise Mountain). We didn't know until Wednesday afternoon if our house was okay. As it turns out, the fire came racing up our canyon, destroyed a tool shed 50 feet from our house at the edge of the back lawn, but the firefighters managed to completely save the house, not a charred mark anywhere. The hillsides and fruit trees and avocados and grapes and a little bit of the lawn are gone, but the house is perfect. Amazing. Several of our neighbors weren't so lucky, though. > Pictures would be cool. GIF, JPG (TIFF, PNG)? There are some awesome pictures (and some duds as well) at a local news page, http://www.kgtv.com/ -- click on 'slideshows' or 'viewer photos'. Many of them show the "enclouding" effect amazingly well. - Nancy.