Wildfires in SoCal

the wind just shfted here too, its really uncomfortable now. luckily I can leave work and go home to safety.

 

yep, it's getting nasty again all of sudden. i hear the two fires in the northeast are about to converge. fire officials are saying they don't have the manpower to tackle it before it hits homes in julian and ramona. it's almost impossible to contact family and friends out there right now - no power or phones.

my friend droopy shot this sunday afternoon at the beach, miles from the fire:



-- raaf

 

Hey HumboltCat...I lived in Duarte when that fire came thru in '81 I think. I vividly remember cuz my buddy and I took our double-dates to the school-yard at Royal Oaks School for some late-nite gymnastics, occasionally looking up at the flames to say "Hey, that looks serious!...slobberslobber". Indeed. When my buddy went home he ended up spending the whole nite on the roof of his parents house watering back the flames, his made it, the neighbors didnt.
My wife just called to say evacuations have been made completely across the top of the San Berdoos, all the way to Yucaipa. We're not worried but I know several rodders up there in the way, including Bob Bauder's shop. Think positive.

 

Raff, you going to evac soon??? i would get my *** out of there before some **** happens... better to be safe than stay and be sorry.. If you know what i mean


-rat

 

i'm fine... i'm by the coast. just worried about my friends and some of my family. **** is turning crazy. for you san diego folks, i just read that cuyamaca was lost by mid-afternoon. starting to smell like BBQ again downtown.

-- raaf

 

You should sell some "i survived the So cali fires" t shirts, or ash in a bottle... some one gotta profit from this disaster. Well , be safe-



steve-

 

Thanks to all that are showing your support it really helps. I am in the I. E. Colton is anyone in San Berdoo or in the area need help just let me know and I'll do what I can. Good luck to you all in San Diego. The air is so bad I hardly make it out anymore.

Bunny/Renae

 

This ****s I hope everyone is ok.....I'n up here in VTA and its smokey day and night.....drove into Moorpark Sat and it was bright as day in some areas.....sorry havn't been on in a few but if anyone needs help in Santa Paula, Fillmore, Piru and that side of the county kall me 805-648-2041....we'll be out to help......

 

I just wanted to get this post back up front. I haven't seen posts from too many as of late. Hoping all is okay.

 

hey does anyone know if the 126 rom I-5 to the 101 is open today? if not I gotta drive another route

 

I wanted to bump this again since there seems to be some progression with the fires in some areas...

Everyone OK out there in Cali?

Stacey

 

Our thoughts and prayers are with you folks. Out here in the prairies we don't have the wildfires ; maybe the odd gr***fire though.Right now we are in the middle of a winter storm;freezing rain and snow and I wish that some of it could be sent your way. We take a lot for granted out here; no earthquakes,no major forest fires or m***ive floods, so I'm kinda thankful for the environment I live in. We get the odd hailstorm , thunderstorm or blizzard, but it's small potatoes compared to whats happening out there.I think I won't ***** about the weather quite as much!(gotta go shovel snow off back deck!!)

 

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Steve, try Cal Trans Road Conditions or 1-800-427-ROAD (7623).

 

Wish we could send you guys some of this to fight those fires. Hang in there. Here's the Teton Cam this morning.

 

It just started raining in OC... hope it spreads to the fire areas!!!!

 

YES! it is rainig pretty good up in the mountains of Big Bear and San Bernadino

 

Cool... my folks have a cabin in Big Bear... while it's insured and doesn't have really any personal stuff up there, it's still a h***le to deal with the insurance and get it rebuilt. Contstruction Jobs will be booming in SoCal for quite a while!

 

ALLRIGHT! My MoJo is working!

 

-Mike- and Wes, are you guys ok?

 

rain is falling sporadically in san diego. looks like the worst may be over. 1500+ homes lost so far.

 

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bttt

 

I will offer refuge at my house to anyone that is displaced by the fires. I'm 55 miles north of Los Angeles ... I haven't extra beds but I have lots of floor space.

This photo was taken Monday - the "clouds" are smoke visible from my house.. .. it isn't really close to us (for that I am thankful) but still quite ominous - very much like "armegedon"



My phone number (cell) is 661-435-3800... .just call and if you need someplace to crash, let me know... I also have an acre of land for those with campers - also for extra vehicles they need to store to be safe from the fire.


Becca

 

Any new news, is it raining? Dego folks we are still prayer for rain....Danny

 

cool pic ...lets the imagination run wild

 

this video is incredible - time lapse of the start of the fire... things appear to be under control now.

mount laguna time lapse

 

its cloudy and raining all north of the valley, the simi/santa clarita fire has been put to bed but sometimes I still smell smoke. I think they are still battling some up in big bear but the weather is helping alot.

 

Just got back home from a few days in DC. San Diego looks so much different today than it did on Tuesday when I flew out; I mean that in a good way though, the smoke has blown away and the air is clear. Coming in on the plane I got to see first hand the devestation in the outlying areas, the hills east of town are all black. Sure hope it doesn't rain too much before some of the gr*** can grow back, next thing we'd be seeing is mud slides.
It was interesting watching the "out of town" news reporting on the California fires, these talking heads on the tube all seem to want to get some angle on the story instead of just taking the fire and loss of property for what it was. Nobody builds homes in California in a "fire zone". It's no different than the folks on the east coast who get hammered by hurricanes, I didn't see any news reports after Isabelle faulting people for building homes in a "hurricane zone". I guess I'm just a little tired of the whole thing right now. In a few days there will be some other "big" story that the news can put under a microscope.
Glad to see all the Dago HAMBers get through this OK, thanks to all for the support and prayers, I'm sure the good vibes helped....

 

thanks for your concern. We are ok out here, it got real close sunday night and then it pushed back. then we got our power back on tues. crazy **** this fire,,,, Starting to find more and more people i know have lost their houses. Some only have what they were wearing on their backs. if anyone on here needs anything call me.. As for =mike= i think he has been pretty safe all week.
wes

 

Mind-numbing! I'm glad that you guys in the S.D. area seem to have pulled through O.K. Since moving to Alabama, I've had the dubious pleasure of waking up in the middle of the night with tornado alarms going off, and hunkering down while tracking them on the weather channel, but that's just a few hours distraction compared to what you folks have lived with this past week. Hope you only get enough rain this winter to keep things damp. After all this, mudslides would really add insult to injury.

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