I keep looking out my window and see the smoke getting bigger and bigger. California has had firestorms before, and many have gotten near my home, but I've never really freaked out about it. I guess this time I am because I've felt the effects more personally. My family has the emergency pack ready, last night I helped prepare pizzas for the brothers and sisters showing up at the Kingdom Hall needing shelter, I even cleaned up my room so that, if need be, an evacuated brother/sister could sleep there. I mean after all this firestorm is bigger than the one's we've had before and it's coming up at us from the south (San Diego) AND the north too (Santa Clarita). And I used to live in the Santa Clarita area so I'm worried about my friends over there too.
What if the firestorm does reach here and we have to be evacuated. Where are we going to go? And everyone staying here because they were already evacuated, where are they going to go? I wish we knew people in Nevada, or Arizona even. Though I'm sure the brothers and sisters there would gladly give us shelter just as we gave shelter here. Yeah, but still. I'm verry worried. Not so much scared, more worried. I need a hug.