Oh, right, the fires.

Just to give you an idea of how crazy things got around these parts...

I took this picture at 1:12pm saturday, facing east.


Turning left to the north, a moment later:


Went into the comic shop for 20 minutes or so. Came out, took this picture (for reference, in the former, you can see the "rner" of the Time Warner Cable office at the corner of the building that's just right of Comics Unlimited.


And more...


And more...


And more...


By the time we'd gotten across the shopping center to go into Target, this was all the blue sky that was left