Florida is nothing if not dramatic. Hurricanes, tornadoes, fires – all conspire to make this a pretty dramatic place to live, and for an Englishman like it me it all takes a little getting used to.
I’ve spent the past week in New Jersey, and flying home on Monday I looked out the aircraft window to see an incredible site; thousands of acres of woodland burning. It looked a little like a warzone, and muppet that I am I didn’t have a camera handy to snap a shot.
Today I woke and moved the car out of the garage to take my daughter to school and met an equally spooky sight. A blue haze was everywhere and the air was thick with the smell of burning. We have low cloud today and it’s keeping the smoke from the nearby fires trapped in. Pretty much all of central Florida right now is bathed in a blue haze of wood smoke, reinforcing the announcements made on the news yesterday that this is a place in a state of emergency.
I’m working from home today, as I do every Wednesday, and the house is already stinky. The fires are not anywhere near here yet. In fact I think the nearest one is about 10 miles away, but the whole house just reeks of burning. It’s very strange.
We’ve got the smoke all the way over here on the gulf coast. I didn’t see the sun at all yesterday due to the thick smog like haze of smoke in the air.
Comment by Colleen — May 9, 2007 @ 3:34 pm |
You think you’ve got problems? Pissing down and blowing a gale…
Comment by Russ — May 10, 2007 @ 9:27 am |
That would be really scary.
Comment by Lucynda Riley — June 12, 2007 @ 9:31 pm |