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This is how the world ends
I live in Northern California, between Sacramento and Chico where the big fire is. The fire is about seventy or eighty miles from us. The fire started eight days ago, is the most destructive and deadly fire on record, six hundred people are still listed as missing, and the fire is only 40% contained.
Our entire area is covered with smoke. It's horrible. School has been canceled for everyone in the region, over a million students. On the air quality index anything over 100 is considered very bad. Right now where I am it's 167. Yesterday afternoon it was 467.
I replace our air filters every time the season changes, four times a year... We just did it in September. I pulled our air filter now and it's nasty.
The impact on our area is staggering. Everyone knows someone who has lost a house, the hotels are booked solid, they have no money, no food, no clothes. We are scrambling to host a thanksgiving dinner for a thousand people. Last night I was at the firehouse for our yearly charity turkey drive, and we collected 1600 turkeys - twice as many as last year.
This is how the world will end. There will be a fire, it will get out of control, we will be unable to stop it, and it will block out the sun for months....
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