A Big Bang shook the neighborhood this afternoon during a thunderstorm, knocking a picture frame off the wall of my office. The lightning bolt struck a sixty-foot redwood tree two blocks away and blew it up. All that was left of the giant was a jagged, shattered stump. Twisted, stripped fragments rested on …
Tag: neighborhood
Apr 28
Emergency Neighborhood Drill
The photo shows something we almost certainly WON’T see in a real emergency: the Berkeley Fire Department. Saturday (4/27) was the Citywide Emergency Drill, and I joined other neighbors from this block and the next in a dry run of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) procedures. The neighbors a block away, who had been …

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