Don't know if it was already mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but it's interesting how this situation was seemingly prophesied in a book Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler; she, herself, was from Pasadena. She wrote the book in 1993 and has been dead since 2006. Take a listen until around 4:30.
Here is a video of one of Ms. Butler's final in-person interviews before she would die a few months later. I know that TLR likes a lot of TLDR, but the 15:39 timespan really is worth a listen. That someone could have such foresight, awareness and understanding of how things that were happening at the end of the 1990s would lead up to this now never ceases to amaze me.
www.theatlantic.com
at the red sky, people went about their business. The fires now are more damaging as you've said but, obviously a bunch of celebrities losing their houses and a wealthy city being razed to the ground has made it more publicized.
sum funny going on
