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Guys,

I just got back to my house today after being evacuated yesterday. (4 cops on foot said, "get out in 10 minutes"). Luckily we were packed with family photos, albums, any other irreplaceable stuff.

So, it is really good to be home in San Diego County. I remember shutting the garage door yesterday and taking a possible last long look at my Backdraft. I was more upset by that than thinking about the whole house. We had to use my F150 and my wife's car to haul all the important stuff. I could not go back for the Cobra.

This has been surreal. I feel like I have been in a some poorly written novel. The problem is that is has been real life! We luckily had my wife's brother's home to go to last night.

The media has been pretty good in this case, but some has been bad information. Lots of mistakes, but they mean well. Except for CNN tonight. They actually said that GLOBAL WARMING could be the cause! I just wanted to make me puke when I heard this. The cause, you idiot newspeople, is fire caused by down powerlines (possilble, but not proven) and potentially fools setting fires (very probably, but not being discussed yet). GLOBAL WARMING had nothing, I repeat, nothing to do with this!!!!! Oh my God what are they thinking. I believe I know. If you tell the same lie enough, most people will believe it. I assume Al Gore will be on soon to explain exactly how this happened.

Do I sound bitter. Yes, because I believe the planet is changing. But fires are not caused by this change!

Sorry. I am pissed, tired and ready for our lives to return to normal soon. When you see Anderson Cooper (on CNN) bring in some half assed weathermen to explain that the warming process has caused more rain, which allowed the brush to grow higher, then the warming caused drier weather, which added to the high winds, causes fires, I wanted to throw up. My wife made me change the channel, or I might have fired a rock at the TV set. Again, sorry, but the real reason is very different.

Off to bed for the tired, pissed, worn out guy whose Cobra survived.

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