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The Burn Scars of Altadena
Los Angeles was dying. Most of the world was changing—changing rapidly, involuntarily, blundering through vast climate change. —Octavia E. Butler (Note from the archives) These winds were different. Shuddering, whistling, howling: Hurricane-force gusts …