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During disasters, I try to get information from as close to the source as possible, rather than the television news which is often second hand.  Here’s a few links that I use for the Southern California mountains:

Twitter feeds:  SanBernardinoNF, AngelesNF, inciweb – for the Sheep Fire, use #Sheep_CABDF
Wrightwood Forum – a great local forum with a high [...]

My water heater went out in May 2008.  Obviously when that happens, there’s not a lot of time to do research on what to get as a replacement.  Since my travels that day brought me closer to Lowe’s, I picked up one of their Whirlpool models they carry – a 50 gallon gas heater with [...]

With a cold storm coming down from the Arctic, it was raining all day and the temperatures never got above the 40s here in Southern California.  This is the first time I recall in over 15 years that the daytime high never went above 50.  The mountain areas have been in the 20s all day [...]