Landlocked

A California story

L.D. Burnett

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Photo by Vincent Creton on Unsplash

This morning I woke up to a dense fog advisory, while my children down in the beach cities woke up to a tsunami warning. The same National Weather Service social media accounts posted both notifications.

This is life in a California. All we need now is a forest fire, an earthquake, and a snowstorm shutting down the Donner or Tehachapi or Grapevine pass, and that’s a Yahtzee. It’s more…

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L.D. Burnett

Writer and historian from / in California’s Great Central Valley. Book, “Western Civilization: The History of an American Idea,” under contract w/ UNC Press.