BurnsFamily Blog

L.A. had a 5.4 (moderate) earthquake around Noon today. To folks who aren’t familiar with earthquakes, you can certainly feel one of those but modern-built structures typically are unaffected. The Richter scale is logarithmic, so a 4.0 is 1/10th the energy of a 5.0, for example. The USGS says that the Bay Area is overdue […]

The San Jose R.A.C.E.S. team asked for volunteers, as part of the Santa Clara County Mutual Aid Communicators (MAC) program, to assist the Lance Armstrong LiveSTRONG 2008 bike race this past week.
Our job was to ride along with the SAG vans to communicate their status, important events, and overall “eyes and ears” to race […]

Last night Julie and I were driving home North on 101 from Santa Cruz and noticed a huge plume of smoke near Gilroy. I know what you’re saying, did it smell like sauteed garlic? No, in fact it didn’t — the fire was near Gilroy, not in it. The fire is in the largest […]