LA Wildfires

Flew to LA for a DARPA PI meeting. The first day, the weather was seemingly gorgeous, and everything looked entirely non-ominous to us (the Californian attendees knew better and explained to us what was likely to come). The second day – this. USC, where our meetings were held, is closed; the air smells of smoke and ash. A burned-around-the-edges sheet of paper glided past my hotel window, making it very clear that this is not just trees burning — this is people’s everything going up in smoke.