Report from San Diego: I'm Having a Hard TIme Getting Started on my Blogging with All the Fires Around Me in San Diego
Hello YouMeiTI readers, as part of my October list to-do's now that I am all settled from traveling- blogging on YouMeiTI was my top priority. But I have a good excuse this week for slowing down again just as I was about to warm up - my city is burning up! Seriously.
I spend quite a lot of time in San Diego, CA - and right now I am surrounded by swaths of uncontained fires. I have friends who are evacuated at my house, and friends who trying to anticipate the direction of the capricious winds.
I usually don't blog about personal events on YouMeiTI, but I thought I this is an appropriate post because I can give you a first hand report about how seriously big the fires are in San Diego. The large news conglomerates in the USA are primarily focusing on the Los Angeles fires because of all their celebrities. But the fires in LA pale in comparison to the SD fires. In addition, when the SD news covers the fire, it mainly focuses on the luxury mansions in North County. In reality, it is also affecting the middle-lower class neighborhoods of South County - where there are more Mexicans - and it is 5-10 miles from the Mexican border. 
Just to give you an idea of how big this fire is, here is a map with the city of Manhattan imposed on top of just ONE fire. There are at least 8 large fires burning right now. I am not burning, and neither is my house. The air is so horrific here that I have constant headaches, burning nasal passages and nausea. I am at least 15 miles (and many canyons) from the closest fire. I am updating about the fires on a regular basis at my personal blog where I have some video, pictures and media analysis. So give me a few more days to get myself resettled in San Diego. - tricia
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