That burning ring of fire.

[Lonestar]

The other SD Apolytoner checking in (since none of you Bastards seem to care).

I can see the fire from wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaayyyy down on 32nd Street Naval station. (although I have to be in the ship's Pilot house to see it) My car is covered with ash and soot. The Skies are black/darkbrown. it's really nasty.

Take care Oerdin!

[mrmitchell]

I hope you all come out okay...

And again, if they say to evacuate, HAUL ASS because you'll need all the time possible to pack (quickly!) and get out (I imagine the out lanes of the highways are clogged up?)

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Lonestar
The other SD Apolytoner checking in (since none of you Bastards seem to care).

Is you family and home from San Diego too?

On a side note, does the fire threaten Tijuana as well? We could wonder if everything's all right by MtG and LTEC!

[Lonestar]

The Fire is well North of TJ. Yes, I'm stationed on a USN ship that's homeported in San Diego.

[devilmunchkin]

the fire went by where i am but didn't come over the hill. it more or less ran paraellel to us. We're waiting to see if the Santa Anna's turn it around. It's pretty shocking to see all the homes going up in flames one by one on the tv. And driving to work tomorrow is going to be a *****..especially if the 52 is closed.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Lonestar
The Fire is well North of TJ. Yes, I'm stationed on a USN ship that's homeported in San Diego.

I guess your ship has nothing to fear then

But is there a risk for your loved ones or your loved objects?

[Pekka]

Excellent idea, taking pictures of everything you have.. remember your HD! IDs..money.. let's hope your house will be OK.

[Lonestar]

My Family is divided between Texas and Virginia.

[MichaeltheGreat]

It's good ol' southern California (worse here than most areas) piss-poor land and fire management practices.

100,000 acres burning in SD County, a majority of it in the metropolitan San Diego area, and you have canyons chock full of brush and eucalyptus trees (some of the fastest, hottest burning, most explosive trees on earth) all over the place.

Down here in Tijuana, there's a steady ash flurry and orange sunlight, with an extended smoke cloud that obscures the real clouds and sky, and this is 30 miles from the nearest fires.

I just heard a while ago that there's a fire about 300 meters from my office building up in SD. It'll probably be safe because it's on the SW end of the complex, and north and east you have canyon lands and some of the open fields around Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, which has a lot of empty grasslands and some canyons on it.

Last I saw on the news, there are about half a dozen separate fires that spread from the original one, and all told, probably a two to three hundred thousand people living in those general areas.

Several freeways are shut down in both directions, plus a lot of surface roads, so this is just beginning.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Is you family and home from San Diego too?

On a side note, does the fire threaten Tijuana as well? We could wonder if everything's all right by MtG and LTEC!

There was a small fire south of here this morning (brush fire, same type), but quickly brought under control. Tijuana, at least in the western half, has less fire risk than most of San Diego because housing is almost exclusively concrete and masonry, plus most of the canyon areas are heavily occupied, so that there's much less brush (and very few damned eucalyptus) in the canyons here to really sustain huge fires - the sort of firestorm that's happening in SD can't really happen here, because there's just not enough fuel.

My daughter and my parents live about seven miles and twelve miles northwest and north, respectively, of the northernmost limits of the fires.

There's a few people that one or the other or both of us know who live in or near the current evacuation areas.

[Lonestar]

Yep. They're evacuating people to Miramesa High School, IIRC

[MichaeltheGreat]

Scripps Ranch and Poway people are being evac'd to MMHS, Tierrasanta people to Qualcomm stadium, IIRC.

Monday night football is scheduled to be there tomorrow, though, so that's likely off.

[Ted Striker]

Oh my god

I'm 50 miles away from the fires, right next to the coast

The ashes up in the air are so bad it looks like fog, it irritates your eyes

Last night I was on the beach and the wind was so warm it felt like a fireplace

There is soot all over everybody's cars

The air totally smells like smoke and now so does my apartment

Good luck Oeriden

In Riverside and San Bernadino every freeway is shut down except for 1

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I'm at UCSD. The sky getting more and more hazy, and the clear parts of it are turning gray: the fire is only 10 miles away. Peple are coughing if they are outside. All of the windows and doors are closed in our suite. The patio outside is getting ash on it (so is my bike) and on the steps of the cafeteria, there is ash. The temperature is going up i think because of the greenhouse effect.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Good luck Oerdin.