[alanmcorcoran]

Update to Hidden Hills. If any of you guys were watching our SoCal Real Estate barbecue this weekend on the TV, some of the larger items on the menu were the HugeAssed Homes of Hidden Hills. One of them was cooking for about 5 hours and was heavily featured on Fox News. The pool survived, but not much else. Rest of Yorba Linda got hit pretty good too, as well as a few areas of my (less ostentatious) neighborhood. This is the fourth major fire to get within a mile of my house in the last three years. Starting to be a regular thing, like weather.

One thing different this time: Not worried about getting stuck in panic traffic if I had to evacuate. Part of the reason I bought the GZ is I wanted the ability to escape "civil unrest" if things got out of hand with the global financial meltdown. So far, very little impact here in SoCal, but I suspect we're just getting started.