After 14 hours and 20 minutes of driving, I made it home safely at 1:20 a.m. last night.
I passed through the California-Oregon border where the highway was temporarily closed due to wildfires a few days ago.
In the woods on either side of the road, all burned to charcoal, groves of trees covered the mountains.Certainly if the mountains on either side of the highway looming over the shoulders of the highway are burned down so spectacularly, they have to be closed.
When I crossed the Washington state line from Oregon to Washington, I drove slowly as the fog suddenly became so thick that it completely blocked my vision for the next 100 meters or so.
The mystery of the dense fog was solved when I arrived at my home in Seattle and opened the car door.It was already fall in Washington state, and the nighttime temperatures were plummeting.
It was so cold that a short-sleeved shirt would give me goosebumps on my arms.
The entire Seattle area is covered in white smoke, just like California today.
Let's pray for all the firefighters who are still in the midst of the intense work of firefighting at this time.