Fires were not something I was equipped to deal with. I knew the general stop drop and roll routine but what do I do when it looks like actual doomsday outside?
Being new residents of California, my boyfriend and I were ignorant on this subject. We had heard of the widespread fires happening in Northern California but, when they were around our area, we were completely blindsided.
Having just moved to town, we hadn’t set up cable in our apartment. AKA: no news. On the day the fires became rampant in the Calabasas, Los Angeles area, we went about our business as usual. Which was hardly business: Sleeping past noon and ignoring the nudges from our dogs to take them outside, but a usual day for us nonetheless.
We put on whatever Netflix or Hulu show we were watching at the time, I think it was Desperate Housewives, and spoke about our usual stresses over money and failed job searches. We decided that we needed to go to the grocery store, our one outing of the week we allowed ourselves.