ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photos by @FransLanting The fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains were seeded by a lightning storm unlike anything we had ever seen. Thousands of strikes hit within a few hours, and they set off fires on a horrendous scale. Fear gripped us as they turned into firestorms with billowing clouds blowing embers that started even more fires. Air turned into smoke. The sky looked like Mars. Now, at last, that smoke is clearing, and we can begin to make sense of what happened and why. Our own place is safe for now, but we mourn the losses of many hundreds of homes nearby. If a heroic band of neighbors had not joined together to fight the fire on their own, in the absence of outside support, things could have turned out differently for us. We look at our landscape and our community differently now. More than ever, we realize that the source of this cataclysmic event and others like it is rooted in the climate chaos we have brought upon ourselves. The new normal is looking ever scarier. We will have to fight much harder to prevent air from becoming smoke everywhere. Follow @FransLanting for more stories from the fires. #Wildfire #California #CZULightningComplexFire #californiafires #santacruzfire」8月31日 8時11分