As no doubt most of you are aware, Los Angeles is enveloped in a series of devastating and cataclysmic fires. Since Tuesday it’s blown far out of control and has affected so many people living in and around the immediate area.
Past Daily is in one of those immediate areas. We’re busy packing bags and listening for updates. We didn’t think so at first, but winds keep shifting and ultimately, we are not safe.
The situation is changing, minute to minute. It’s also distracting and anxiety provoking, and rightly so.
The bottom line; we can’t concentrate on doing our regular posts – every minute and hour is spent monitoring the situation.
So please understand, we can’t be everywhere at once without taking huge risks, and we keep losing power and Internet several times a day. So we have decided to take a break for the next few days (when the weather is supposed to change) and focus on helping some of our many friends who have lost everything by proving whatever help we can, while waiting patiently for our own order to evacuate, which may or (hopefully) may not come.
Hopefully, this will only be for the next two or three days, fingers crossed it’s sooner – we also hope we don’t become the latest victims to these fires as a good chunk of the archive is awaiting digitizing and sitting here, unprotected at the moment.
We’ll be back and posting the best history and Pop Culture available. We beg your understanding and patience with these circumstances beyond our control, while the firefighters go about their business.
We still need your membership and support – so do what you can in the meantime. We would appreciate it more than you can imagine.
Back when the smoke clears,
Gordon Skene
Editor-in-chief: Past Daily
