My church summer camp may burn down today. Other camps are gone. Harley Goat Farm near tiny Pescadero, California, where we’d take the kids during camping trips, also may be in danger.

I feel like my childhood, my happy memories are being torched. It is a heavy feeling. Our home is safe, unlike 50,000 structures under threat throughout the state. But the air isn’t fit to breathe.

Another sucker punch to the gut

The New York Times summed it up perfectly today: 
“Every order to evacuate, every video of a lurid orange fire line, every image of a smoldering house, of cars leaving a packed cul-de-sac, of smoke drifting over hundreds of miles of the Bay Area, feels at once like a flashback and another sucker punch to the gut.”

Yep. Pray for rain without lightning. For relief from the terrible heat. For the safety of hundreds of firefighters and people in the path of flames.

Pray.