It’s Monday.. and time to get back to work!
Posted by Robert Imbriale on October 29, 2007 in Special Notices
It sure feels great to be back at home, and back in front of my phone and computers!
You never really know how much you rely on the little things in life until they
aren’t available.
This morning, it’s still smoky outside, and wearing a face mask is still required to
keep the soot out of your lungs. But it has been getting better each day.
On the weekend, Phoebe and I took a short tour of the burn area here and I must say,
although the media focused on the 206 homes that were lost in our town, they could
have really told us how many more homes were saved!
It was incredible to see areas totally burned out, and right in the middle of it all,
was a home. It wasn’t burned, it was standing and looked absolutely normal. And it it
weren’t for the fact that all the landscaping around it had been turned to ash, you
might never know a fire had roared past it.
We saw entire mountain sides dotted with homes just like this. The fires seemed to
have passed around them without causing any visible damage.
Maybe this is where the credit really needs to go the firefighters who did their best
to protect as many homes as possible under what could very well have been described
as disastrous conditions by any measure.
Where the fire was not able to be stopped, as in the local water treatment plant, the
destruction was total and complete. All that remains of our local water treatment
plant are cement conduit for the water and a staircase that rises up from the ground
and goes nowhere.
For us, it’s time to vacuum up the ash, get the pool cleaned out (the bottom is
black, not the usual bright blue it normally is) and by all means keep the windows
closed and the air filters on “High!”
And right now, taking some “detox” supplements is not only a good idea, it’s the best
thing you can do to protect yourself against the high levels of toxins in the air.
Keep in mind, it’s not just wood that burned here. It was houses, chemicals, paints,
plastics, gas, oil, and everything else you could think of finding in a home. With
about 1,500 homes burned to the ground, that’s a lot of toxic fumes let loose in the
small area we know as San Diego.
Breathing this mix of smoke and toxins is indeed dangerous.
The good news is that today, I get back to work. It’s exactly one week to the day
that the fires hit our area. And it was a week that will go down in the history
books.
Seminar Update: Motivational Wealth
This seminar has been rescheduled and will take place here in San Diego on December
7-9, 2007
By then, the air will once again be clean and crisp, and the mess caused by the fires
will be completely cleaned up and we’ll be back to perfect weather once again!
There is more information on the seminar posted at http://www.MotivationalWealth.com
Be outstanding!
Robert 
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