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residents check in... how are you so-cal guys/gals doing right now????

Sorry, didn't see this thread for some reason before posting another. I saw Otter is okay. Don't know about BrownDogWilson. Anybody know?

Deleted the other post. I was surfing the Surfing San Diego Forums and saw that Otter has been evacuated and is over at a friend's house and okay. Seems the fires in California are displacing alot of surfers out there but most are physically okay. Please everyone send up good wishes for them all.

Here's a link to an update for them. If this is breaking a rule I do apologize for linking to another forum but thought this might be allowed under the circumstances.
http://surfingsandiego.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2601

I edited it to add the right link.

my buddy is currently volunteering at Qualcomm stadium helping out there.

this fire is absolutely crazy!

Yes, it really is. The descriptions of what people are taking from their homes are really touching to me for some reason. You can just sense their panic and that they are really struggling.

You're okay right since you're up north?

I'm about 20 miles from the nearest fire, so no evac for me, as I am in an urban area. They were saying the entire town of Ramona in San Diego was evacuated, but I have a cousin who lives there who hasn't been evacuated (at least not as of this morning).
The air quality sucks though (as it pretty much does throughout southern CA). At the school I work at we couldn't even let the kids play outside at all today. The sky was an eerie orange today, even had some kids asking why it was orange today, as yesterday was not as bad up there.
Should come up with some interesting pictures , BDW had one of his shots from HB showing a bit of the orange tinge from the fires.

Is it true the Australian Gum Trees/Eucalypt' trees that now grow in Cal have increased your fire hazard risks over there??

I'm off to california next week. Eek!
Hope they sort it out soon

Re: the eucalyptus trees- the mountain fires are in areas where there are none of those types of trees, I don't think those trees really increased fire risk, as they have been around for over 100 years in SoCal, mainly used as wind breaks on farms. The reasoning for these fires is the fact that it has been the driest year on record, as well has having high winds causing power lines to fall, spark and cause fires. Though the fire in OC has been determined to be an arson fire.
Now there's a fire at Camp Pendleton, near San Onofre, they had the freeway closed for a while, but it's back open now.
The Santa Ana winds are supposed to be calming down today, and it's supposed to cool down as the week goes on, making it easier for them to fight the fires.

It `s very sad to see the damage this fire has done to peoples property. I hope the emergency sevices sort it soon for you guys. Thinking of all our brothers and sisters over the pond.

luckily iam out of range thus far but the air quality is pretty bad here.

Stay safe people

isaluteyou wrote:luckily iam out of range thus far but the air quality is pretty bad here.

Stay safe people

Oh lord, of all people, I should have thought of you first down there as you are the first I've ever spoken to about SD. I am so glad you are okay!!!!! Take care!

For petes sake.

Don't the local authorities practice back-burning? Those fires should never have gotten that insane in populated areas.

-doug

Good luck guys, hope your all ok over there.

KS

dougirwin13 wrote:For petes sake.

Don't the local authorities practice back-burning? Those fires should never have gotten that insane in populated areas.

they would have to be back burning into houses though now. plus the winds have been ridiculous.

SDCali wrote:Re: the eucalyptus trees- the mountain fires are in areas where there are none of those types of trees, I don't think those trees really increased fire risk, as they have been around for over 100 years in SoCal, mainly used as wind breaks on farms. The reasoning for these fires is the fact that it has been the driest year on record, as well has having high winds causing power lines to fall, spark and cause fires. Though the fire in OC has been determined to be an arson fire.
Now there's a fire at Camp Pendleton, near San Onofre, they had the freeway closed for a while, but it's back open now.
The Santa Ana winds are supposed to be calming down today, and it's supposed to cool down as the week goes on, making it easier for them to fight the fires.

the issue with those eucalyptus trees is not so much starting fires but keeping them going once the fires get to them.


also the winds have started going off shore pushing the fires towards the coast which sucks.

My buddy got to meet Arnold haha.. he is volunteering at QualComm and arnold the govenator shook his hand haha,

dougirwin13 wrote:For petes sake.

Don't the local authorities practice back-burning? Those fires should never have gotten that insane in populated areas.

-doug
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108 mile per hour winds make that very very difficult when you have that combined with over 20 fires all over the south... its so chaotic they can only fight it now. and back burning is happening in some areas... but again those high winds made that hard.

some malibu pictures






insane...

^^^good lord!!

i live like 200 miles from malibu and sunsets are getting weird. the skies are starting to get smoky and it was VERY warm the past couple days. like strange warm.