SoCal Fires Live Thread 10/28

10/28/03 | Myself

[spectr17]

SoCal Fires Live Thread 10/28

[socal_parrot]

Who's next...Geraldo!!?

Too late, he's here.

[lainie]

Local scanner: Piru or Simi, power lines down no other info

[South40]

Say it isn't so!!!!

[nicmarlo]

Sounds like you've gotten everything down perfect in that e-mail, via; you certainly down need any help from me. Great letter!

[Conservative4Ever]

no kidding...cell phone is working fine here in Calimesa...and I'm still hanging on with my dial-up. We are in the sticks here folks...DSL is not available to us. Either cable or dial-up. Damn, but I wish I had my wireless modem already.

[Conservative4Ever]

whew..thanks for reporting nic

[viaveritasvita]

Thank you! Just added your info.

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[ridesthemiles]

This bill has been blocked by certain politicians but I can't remember their names

Diane Fienstein is actually one of them!!!!

[socal_parrot]

Yep...He was leaking the Firefighter's war plans all day today.

[nicmarlo]

It'll take a WEEK for PARTIAL containment? Holy crap...

Awful, isn't it?

[Conservative4Ever]

yeah...to bad huh...got to wave off the red tape in cases like this. IMHO

[dogbyte12]

chp incident site is down for me. Can you still get on?

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Do you know what if anything is happening in the Santee area? I thought that area was "ok" as of last night, and I am completely confused now. I am stunned this isnt given more attention on the national news.

[viaveritasvita]

Thanks, nic!

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[nicmarlo]

yw, conservative.....glad I got to check on Indio Dispatch site before CHP went down.....it's still not up....too many people overloading the server.

[meyer]

I heard it was a microwave van. pics look like it too, KNBC

Kind of looking like a microwave oven in hole-in-one's picture! :)

[Merovingian]

I am no Bible expert, but I do remember something in the book of Revelation about the angel who emptied out his bowl upon the sun which was permitted to burn humanity with fire...See if you can find it.

[Ladypixel]

Update from the Glendora region:

The entire area of the eastern San Gabriel Valley is completely choked with smoke. The skies above us, at dusk, looked the same as they had since about 2pm; dingy orange-grey with dim light filtering through. As the sun set, the sky went steely grey... with no stars visible whatsoever. Who knows if the moon's up.

The smoke, of course, rings the mountain range directly northward of us. It's like a halo of darkness. Standing in the parking lot of the local Walmart, I could barely see the nearby hill (approximately an eighth of a mile away), and I could not make out the tops of the mountains whatsoever; there was a dim outline which might have been the mountains, but it was virtually impossible to tell through the haze.

People are moving around here actively now that the sun has set; the parking lot at the Walmart was crammed, as was the local Target. It appears that now that the major "danger" has passed as per the newscasts, people are feeling daring enough to leave their homes. However, if the wind shifts, there's still danger; there's still a fire burning in the mountains above us, and it's perched directly over the only canyon that did not burn in the Curb fire. As things stand now, it's likely that it won't shift... but then again, the weather changes this last week have been staggering.

I've developed a cough from breathing so much smoke-filled air, but then again, so has everyone else out here - we've been breathing this sludge for days on end. I no longer notice the occasional flurries of ash, as long as it's smaller than pencil-eraser size. On the bright side, we aren't getting any more blackened leaves fluttering our direction (I have a small, crusted and burnt oak leaf sitting atop my monitor right now as a reminder of that phase of the fires around here).

On a more personal note, I found out today that my brother in law and his family, who live in some of the off-base Naval housing in San Diego county, were evacuated on Saturday due to the Cedar fire. They were able to return home late Sunday to their home... but not everyone in that region was as lucky, seeing as that a few houses on the off-base housing were burned. I don't know how many, or I'd post it. Family is fine, though. This was a bright spot in my day. (They live north of Qualcomm Stadium, although I'm not sure of the exact location, having only been there two or three times.)

The sun has set; a little breeze picked up, but nothing above... oh, say 2mph. Let's hope that it continues to be mild weather...

[FReepaholic]

>>...I don't recall anything like this in Florida. I remember weeks of smog, and I still see the charred remains of trees along I-10, but it wasn't anyways near this bad....<<

Just ask the folks in Flagler, Volusia, and Brevard (where I live) counties.

Of course, it wasn't near the magnitude of the CA fires, but devastating nonetheless.

Homes, property wiped out. Lots of people hospitalized for respitory problems.

Firefighters/planes/helicopters from all of the US came in to help.

Here's one story I found while composing this post:

1998 Florida Fires