Narrowly Escaping Disaster

We had just left LA and are soon headed for the Yosemite area when we discover that there was a 5.4 earthquake in LA the day after we leave that area. Yikes. Although we in no way are wanting anything else crowzy to happen to us it would have been pretty cool to have been in that particular earthquake. I say this only in retrospect because I know that it was strong enough to feel, thus giving us the feeling and idea behind earthquakes but it was not so strong that it did harmful damage. We both said that it would have been interesting to say that while we were in California, of course we were in an earthquake. Especially since they are common for California and it is almost like really experiencing California to its fullest by feeling the Earth tremble beneath you. I probably would have freaked out during it though. We also discovered that there is an out of control wildfire just 15 miles west of Yosemite and growing in every direction. Although the park's website states that the area is relatively close the park is covered in a fog like cloud of smoke disrupting all the famous views that we traveled to Yosemite for. Although it is a bummer that there is a natural disaster affecting one of the country’s most beautiful and most prized places we are lucky to have been in between the two disaster hot spots of California this week.