[lainie]

Mohave and other desert dwellers will be able to relate to this... here in the upper Antelope Valley on any given night, I can see a billion stars straigt up, and lots of lights off in the distance -- some as far away as 20 or 30 miles. Tonight, there is ZERO long range visibility. No Palmdale lights, no Hesperia/Phelan twinkling, no Lake Los Angeles. It's as black as tar... like drifting in outer space or something.

[Ladypixel]

Yuck. Maybe it's time for me to call my friend in Hesperia and make sure she's still alive and kickin' under the smoke...

[lainie]

I just took a walk outside. It's otherworldly. and smells TERRIBLE. You can taste the acrid smokiness on your lips. You can hear the air is different -- like if you go outside when it's snowing.