New start. Malibu. Cooking off Encinal.
Told ya.
The predicted wind gusts in the Palisades for the fire weather event tomorrow are in the low to mid 30's. The wind gusts in the Palisades when my house was burning down peaked at just 38 mph.
There's this myth that we had hurricane force winds. Nah, man. Gusts were in the low 20's for the first 5 hours of the fire. Right now, we have both reservoirs still offline, 2 water mains just broke, and they let ALL the brush regrow around us, plus there are dozens of open timber-framed homes everywhere. Keep your head on a swivel, folks. LAPD and LASD should be doing round-the-clock patrols in the wildland urban areas to watch out for DSA street animals trying to start chaos over the next few days. Brentwood and Bel Air...BE CAREFUL.