27-10-2003 01:42									#31
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The other SD Apolytoner checking in (since none of you Bastards seem to care).

I can see the fire from wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaayyyy down on 32nd Street Naval station. (although I have to be in the ship's Pilot house to see it) My car is covered with ash and soot. The Skies are black/darkbrown. it's really nasty.

Take care Oerdin!

	27-10-2003 01:43									#32
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I hope you all come out okay...

And again, if they say to evacuate, HAUL ASS because you'll need all the time possible to pack (quickly!) and get out (I imagine the out lanes of the highways are clogged up?)

	27-10-2003 01:58									#33
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quote: Originally posted by Lonestar The other SD Apolytoner checking in (since none of you Bastards seem to care).

Is you family and home from San Diego too?

On a side note, does the fire threaten Tijuana as well? We could wonder if everything's all right by MtG and LTEC!

	27-10-2003 02:03									#34
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The Fire is well North of TJ. Yes, I'm stationed on a USN ship that's homeported in San Diego.

	27-10-2003 02:03									#35
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the fire went by where i am but didn't come over the hill. it more or less ran paraellel to us. We're waiting to see if the Santa Anna's turn it around. It's pretty shocking to see all the homes going up in flames one by one on the tv. And driving to work tomorrow is going to be a *****..especially if the 52 is closed.

	27-10-2003 02:05									#36
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quote: Originally posted by Lonestar The Fire is well North of TJ. Yes, I'm stationed on a USN ship that's homeported in San Diego.

I guess your ship has nothing to fear then

But is there a risk for your loved ones or your loved objects?

	27-10-2003 02:06									#37
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Excellent idea, taking pictures of everything you have.. remember your HD! IDs..money.. let's hope your house will be OK.

	27-10-2003 02:06									#38
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My Family is divided between Texas and Virginia.

	27-10-2003 02:07									#39
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It's good ol' southern California (worse here than most areas) piss-poor land and fire management practices.

100,000 acres burning in SD County, a majority of it in the metropolitan San Diego area, and you have canyons chock full of brush and eucalyptus trees (some of the fastest, hottest burning, most explosive trees on earth) all over the place.

Down here in Tijuana, there's a steady ash flurry and orange sunlight, with an extended smoke cloud that obscures the real clouds and sky, and this is 30 miles from the nearest fires.

I just heard a while ago that there's a fire about 300 meters from my office building up in SD. It'll probably be safe because it's on the SW end of the complex, and north and east you have canyon lands and some of the open fields around Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, which has a lot of empty grasslands and some canyons on it.

Last I saw on the news, there are about half a dozen separate fires that spread from the original one, and all told, probably a two to three hundred thousand people living in those general areas.

Several freeways are shut down in both directions, plus a lot of surface roads, so this is just beginning.

	27-10-2003 02:13									#40
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Is you family and home from San Diego too? On a side note, does the fire threaten Tijuana as well? We could wonder if everything's all right by MtG and LTEC!

There was a small fire south of here this morning (brush fire, same type), but quickly brought under control. Tijuana, at least in the western half, has less fire risk than most of San Diego because housing is almost exclusively concrete and masonry, plus most of the canyon areas are heavily occupied, so that there's much less brush (and very few damned eucalyptus) in the canyons here to really sustain huge fires - the sort of firestorm that's happening in SD can't really happen here, because there's just not enough fuel.

My daughter and my parents live about seven miles and twelve miles northwest and north, respectively, of the northernmost limits of the fires.

There's a few people that one or the other or both of us know who live in or near the current evacuation areas.

	27-10-2003 02:13									#41
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Yep. They're evacuating people to Miramesa High School, IIRC

	27-10-2003 02:19									#42
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Scripps Ranch and Poway people are being evac'd to MMHS, Tierrasanta people to Qualcomm stadium, IIRC.

Monday night football is scheduled to be there tomorrow, though, so that's likely off.

	27-10-2003 02:33									#43
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Oh my god

I'm 50 miles away from the fires, right next to the coast

The ashes up in the air are so bad it looks like fog, it irritates your eyes

Last night I was on the beach and the wind was so warm it felt like a fireplace

There is soot all over everybody's cars

The air totally smells like smoke and now so does my apartment

Good luck Oeriden

In Riverside and San Bernadino every freeway is shut down except for 1

	27-10-2003 02:49									#44
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I'm at UCSD. The sky getting more and more hazy, and the clear parts of it are turning gray: the fire is only 10 miles away. Peple are coughing if they are outside. All of the windows and doors are closed in our suite. The patio outside is getting ash on it (so is my bike) and on the steps of the cafeteria, there is ash. The temperature is going up i think because of the greenhouse effect.

	27-10-2003 02:52									#45
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Good luck Oerdin.

	27-10-2003 02:55									#46
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quote: The temperature is going up i think because of the greenhouse effect.

Good luck to all of you...if that was happening to me, I'd probably have already been one of the ones Gatekeeper listed as "heart attack"

	27-10-2003 03:04									#47
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The haze has covered the sun now. The sky is turning to yellowish - gray -orange color. The fire is now burning 8 miles away. I dont know which way its burning though. If someone knows, could you please tell us? My suitemates and I are glued to our TV.

	27-10-2003 03:15									#48
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Go ahead and get one of you to start packing--just to be safe at least.

	27-10-2003 03:42									#49
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My roomie's friend lives a half mile from UCSD. He's been told to get ready to evacuate. The sky is getting darker in the south and the east.

Heres picts from a webcame
http://www.expectnothing.com/index....story&post=2527


Here's a map. THe star indicates where the fire is burning about 30 minute ago. At the bottom left where it says La Jolla Blv is where I am.

http://www.sddt.com/Maps/mqintercon...el=6&event=zoom

	27-10-2003 04:01									#50
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With the winds, the dry stuff on the ground, etc., MCAS Miramar, Sycamore Canyon (the 52 freeway west of 805 until it hits 5 and becomes Ardath road), Tecolote Canyon, Mt. Soledad, etc, this could easily get down almost to the ocean - at least into the fringe of the coastal areas of SD.

	27-10-2003 04:10									#51
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I think I'll be safe...

	27-10-2003 04:18									#52
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Yeah, you'll just have a lot of company down there.

	27-10-2003 04:18									#53
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The sky to the north is now dark. That's a bad sign.

	27-10-2003 04:21									#54
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It's not a good sign, but it's getting dark everywhere.

We're 30 miles south, not downwind at all, but it's like sunset here - dull orange sun, and everything to the north is greyed out. People with asthma or any kind of respiratory problems are going to have hell to pay.

	27-10-2003 04:23									#55
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Yep...A red sun like those old videos from GulfWarI w/ the burning oil fields...

	27-10-2003 04:24									#56
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quote: Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia The sky to the north is now dark. That's a bad sign.

Begin to pack the things you value most. It is unlikely the fire goes that far into the city, but you cannot be sure.

	27-10-2003 04:24									#57
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Yeah, I have a slight asthma, and for the first time in like 10 years I had to take a hit off of my friends inhaler. I'll bet the air quality is **** around here. Towards the west, its really weird because it will get dark and then it will clear a bit, but the sun is always covered and its like this red orange glow through the common area's windows.

	27-10-2003 04:25									#58
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For me it's more like an annoyance....My car is ass-ugly.

	27-10-2003 04:26									#59
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I'm not in the city bro. I'm north of La Jolla, which is a rich suburb north of SD. Its not dense at all, and there is lots of open space a grass around.

	27-10-2003 04:27									#60
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A couple of more fires have started in the north. San Diego is now almost surrounded by fires. 760 KFM is giving good coverage on the fires with listeners calling in on cell phones and ties ins with other news sources. A small plane just crashed near Montgomery field to add more confusion. This is not a good day for San Diego. Much of their equipment was sent north to the fires in San Bernardino and they're just starting to get some of it back. Hot embers blow quite a distance from the main fires and start new ones.