So Cal Inferno - good link
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Buddy, I'm in the middle of this mess. I've not
slept much the last three nights because of the
constant huricane force winds and the smoke is
so thick you could cut it with a knife. Until you
see it with your own eyes and smell it, words
can't describe it. I feel sorry for the people
without homes now and the firefighters, they
are fighting the fight.
slept much the last three nights because of the
constant huricane force winds and the smoke is
so thick you could cut it with a knife. Until you
see it with your own eyes and smell it, words
can't describe it. I feel sorry for the people
without homes now and the firefighters, they
are fighting the fight.
Kramer,
My sis lives just east of Oxnard. Seems to be safe so far.
Kramer, you have my sympathy. I can only try to imagine how difficult it is for you.
Another popular sports forums has a long running thread on the firestorm and So Cal members location to the fires (When you need medication, the doctor writes you a ------------. Put a "the" in front)
My sis lives just east of Oxnard. Seems to be safe so far.
Kramer, you have my sympathy. I can only try to imagine how difficult it is for you.
Another popular sports forums has a long running thread on the firestorm and So Cal members location to the fires (When you need medication, the doctor writes you a ------------. Put a "the" in front)
Buddy, appreciate your thoughts, but my battle
with the smoke and winds are nothing compared
to what I know are going on elsewhere. I was
able to sleep last night as the Santa Anna's have
finally died down, actually slept with my br window
open to try and air out the house, still hot and dry
but NO WIND :00hour
Oxnard was never threatened, my wife and son
and I occasionally go up their to the beach, (we
can take our dog).
San Diego is a natural disaster period. I heard 2day
that more people have been evacuated from SC
than NO during Katrina. Don't know if that's true
but what I heard. Mother Nature can be brutal.
For those of you not familiar with the Santa Anna
winds, we can go a week of 50-60 mph winds
with gusts of 80-95 mph. NON STOP. I live in
Simi Valley, spanish for valley of wind. These winds
are generated from the desert and are always
hot and NO humidity. Two years ago we got
pummeled with excess rainfall, generating much
growth in vegation, this last year we got no rain,
generating tender for any spark.
My heart and prayers for the exhausted firefighters
and homeless in SoCal today.
update from san diego (cant really speak to la/oc/ie as we've had nothing but fire coverage for 3 days although ie looks fine)
just about 1/3 of the county's residents were evacuated over the past 2 days...that roughly a million people....some are slowly allowed back home while most are just allowed supervised visits with authorites to get emercency items like medication, etc...
the 15 and the 5 (n/s interstates getting out of town) have been shut down for long stretches (50 miles in some cases) over the past few days with the 5 currently being shut down between camp pendleton and orange county....the 15 was shut down for almost 24 hours mon/tues
the winds have died down today (compared to sun night-mon-tues) but now that we will begin to get off shore winds (from the west) that just means that the fires can/will turn and head back east or north/south east and can still spread to areas that havent been hit.
no fire is more than 15% contained right now but fortunately the winds died down enough that planes/choppers were finally able to get in the air yest to start dropping water and fire retardant.
living dtwn sd, i havent had to deal with much other than smoke in the air, ash, and heat (no big deal compared to others).....there are no hotels left in sd as all are full of evacuees and about 10k remain at qualcomm.
bush comes tomorrow and i'm trying to figure out how the nut jobs amongst us will find a way to blame him for this.....global warming, he and cheney actually started the fire in the deserts in a secret hunting trip or they set a bomb off out there that started the fire????
that's it in a nutshell.....compared to the what i saw of katrina and the cluster fuk there with looting, fighting, killing, poor accomidations, etc...this have been a pretty good operation so far, and it looks to be 2-3 times the number of people that are temp homeless.........
anybody wants to make a donation or wants to help they can go here:
http://www.sdarc.org/site/pp.asp?c=erKQL4NQE&b=127361
thanks for everything.
just about 1/3 of the county's residents were evacuated over the past 2 days...that roughly a million people....some are slowly allowed back home while most are just allowed supervised visits with authorites to get emercency items like medication, etc...
the 15 and the 5 (n/s interstates getting out of town) have been shut down for long stretches (50 miles in some cases) over the past few days with the 5 currently being shut down between camp pendleton and orange county....the 15 was shut down for almost 24 hours mon/tues
the winds have died down today (compared to sun night-mon-tues) but now that we will begin to get off shore winds (from the west) that just means that the fires can/will turn and head back east or north/south east and can still spread to areas that havent been hit.
no fire is more than 15% contained right now but fortunately the winds died down enough that planes/choppers were finally able to get in the air yest to start dropping water and fire retardant.
living dtwn sd, i havent had to deal with much other than smoke in the air, ash, and heat (no big deal compared to others).....there are no hotels left in sd as all are full of evacuees and about 10k remain at qualcomm.
bush comes tomorrow and i'm trying to figure out how the nut jobs amongst us will find a way to blame him for this.....global warming, he and cheney actually started the fire in the deserts in a secret hunting trip or they set a bomb off out there that started the fire????
that's it in a nutshell.....compared to the what i saw of katrina and the cluster fuk there with looting, fighting, killing, poor accomidations, etc...this have been a pretty good operation so far, and it looks to be 2-3 times the number of people that are temp homeless.........
anybody wants to make a donation or wants to help they can go here:
http://www.sdarc.org/site/pp.asp?c=erKQL4NQE&b=127361
thanks for everything.
The fire near me (Santa Clarita) was the Buckweed fire, which was caused, they say, by downed power lines in Aqua Dulce, but I just have a feeling that others are caused by pyromaniacs.
Some of this has been confirmed. The fire in OC began at three different points along the 241 toll road. I hope they catch the miscreants that did that one, and all of the others.
I hope all SoCal madjacks folks are alright. We were about a mile away from the front lines, and all is well now (no forced evacuation). I'll be glad when these Santana Winds are gone.
Some of this has been confirmed. The fire in OC began at three different points along the 241 toll road. I hope they catch the miscreants that did that one, and all of the others.
I hope all SoCal madjacks folks are alright. We were about a mile away from the front lines, and all is well now (no forced evacuation). I'll be glad when these Santana Winds are gone.
Can't remember who sang it smurph, but "It never
rains in Southern California", best we can hope for
is "June gloom", firefighters would give their next
weeks paycheck for that right now. :mj09: :mj09:
Kramer,
Thanks for the reply. Glad to hear you're hanging in there and things are tolerable for you. What those less fortunate are going through is hard to imagine.
My wife's brother and his family live in La Mirada outside of Anaheim and we just found out they're out of harms way.
Kramer, I echo your sentiments for the exhausted firefighters and the homeless in SoCal. Well said.
Thanks for the reply. Glad to hear you're hanging in there and things are tolerable for you. What those less fortunate are going through is hard to imagine.
My wife's brother and his family live in La Mirada outside of Anaheim and we just found out they're out of harms way.
Kramer, I echo your sentiments for the exhausted firefighters and the homeless in SoCal. Well said.
JC, pretty much known that the fire in Aqua Dulce
was a power line, but known for a fact that the
fire in OC was set by in 3 different places by scum.
:00x4
