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Some of you may remember my thread in 2003 when the area where my parent's house is was ordered evacuated due the massively out of control Cedar Fire WIKI here. The Cedar Fire was the largest wild fire in the history of the continental US and by the grace of God it stopped just 1 block short of my parent's house though many of our neighbors had everything they owned burned.
Yesterday morning another wild fire was started by an arsonist and by yesterday evening the smoke and ash was so bad that many people started wearing masks while outside. I went to the movies last night and while driving it was an almost total white out condition. Today my father called to tell me that the Scripps Ranch area, the area he lives and where I grew up, has be ordered evacuated by the police and fire departments. Southern California is in its 4th year of drought so the forests and bushes around San Diego are dry as a match stick plus we are currently experiencing Santa Anna winds (normally the winds blow from the ocean onto land bring moist air and gentle breezes but during a Santa Anna high pressure in the inland deserts cause very hard winds to blow through the mountain passes drying the vegetation making it extremely difficult to fight forest fires).
I'm off to help my father evacuate his house. We plan on loading up family pictures, legal documents, and small but expensive items like by dead mother's jewelry collection. Scripps Ranch is such a beautiful area with the extensive open spaces and forests of eucalyptus, sycamore, and oak trees but it seems living so close to nature has its costs.
Yesterday morning another wild fire was started by an arsonist and by yesterday evening the smoke and ash was so bad that many people started wearing masks while outside. I went to the movies last night and while driving it was an almost total white out condition. Today my father called to tell me that the Scripps Ranch area, the area he lives and where I grew up, has be ordered evacuated by the police and fire departments. Southern California is in its 4th year of drought so the forests and bushes around San Diego are dry as a match stick plus we are currently experiencing Santa Anna winds (normally the winds blow from the ocean onto land bring moist air and gentle breezes but during a Santa Anna high pressure in the inland deserts cause very hard winds to blow through the mountain passes drying the vegetation making it extremely difficult to fight forest fires).
I'm off to help my father evacuate his house. We plan on loading up family pictures, legal documents, and small but expensive items like by dead mother's jewelry collection. Scripps Ranch is such a beautiful area with the extensive open spaces and forests of eucalyptus, sycamore, and oak trees but it seems living so close to nature has its costs.
(Okay this part isn't serious, but the first paragraph is...)
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