Pretty much everything about the human interaction with Los Angeles has brought us a war with nature we seem no longer to be ...
Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the ...
Raymond Chandler ... "(T)he violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los ...
This time around, so many folks have posted the same Santa Ana and wildfire quotes to the point that the brilliant is ...
As the L.A. fires rage, we’re reminded of movies, books and songs that speak to the city’s love-hate relationship with the ...
was fueled in part by back-to-back Santa Ana winds. The Washington Post likened the weather pattern to "a giant hair dryer," ...
It feels like the kind of place you might read about in a Raymond Chandler novel ... He says the historic Santa Ana winds of last week allowed the fire to grow "rapidly and explosively".
and unusually powerful Santa Ana winds. The Santa Anas — the offshore winds that Raymond Chandler once wrote “come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump ...
It's hard to do much more because there is fuel - dry vegetation, buildings - and because of the Santa Ana winds blowing ... There's a famous passage from a Raymond Chandler short story in which ...