Fire Update

We are still in our apartment, thankfully! They have put up mandatory evacuations for homes as close as one block away from us. Most (if not all) of the other seminary couples that live here have already left, just to be safe. We have everything packed and by the door, waiting for that phone call telling us to evacuate, or that police officer to come knock on our door. I go through waves of being rather scared, and then being optimistic and happy that I get to sleep in my own apartment tonight. The fires are pretty much uncontainable because of the incredible wind force. The fires shoot embers way far ahead of themselves, which starts a whole new fire. The wind makes the palm trees look like how you see them in hurricane weather, all bent over. We just need the winds to calm down and rain to come! But for now, we are safe...relatively.