“Sounds similar to us. When Reagan died, our house backed on to the Reagan Library grounds. We easily could’ve walked up the hill to see him lying in state, but it wasn’t permitted. It required a half-hour drive to the college where the shuttles were transporting people.”
Do you still live there?
I heard that there were fires in the hills near there.
Is this so?
We so enjoyed our visit to the Reagan Lib. a few years back.
Loved him and Nancy so much and wanted our youngest, who was the only one of 8 still at home, to experience what a real president of the USA was like.
No; we left Simi Valley 2010 and now are in TN.
Re the fires, I don’t know what’s going on now but while we were there, we were within about 15 minutes of evacuating. We think our proximity to the Library was our salvation. The Library was between us and the oncoming fire. All of a sudden, black water-dumping helicopters showed up and stopped the fire just as it was getting too close to the Library. Air Force One was sitting outside very close, since the pavilion for it hadn’t been built yet.
Scary times. I’ve lived with earthquakes in Alaska and hurricanes in Florida, but fires terrify me most.