My mom called me this afternoon to tell me that she took this pictures of the orange sky over Ventura County today. Smoke from the fires in Southern California, including Castaic, Agua Dulce, Moorpark and Malibu, had blocked out the sun and ash rained down like snow, as clearly illuminated by my mom's flash in the above pic of my dad in our driveway at 2pm. The darkness triggered the automatic light-sensors on the streetlights so they were on all afternoon.

I really wanted to drive from LA up to Ventura just to check it out, but I was worried the ash would cause breathing problems for me.

It looks like Kurt was home in Ventura this weekend because he also got some great pics of the fire, which he aptly described as an "apocalypse."