San Diego

[DrWilloughby]

Hey, I hope all you San Diego indies out there are doing ok. I'm in Hillcrest, so I'm fine, though my parents have been evacuated from Del Mar and are staying with me in my little studio. Thank god I have an office! :)

[GolfHacker]

We're in La Mesa, so our home is ok too.

But my full-time job is in Rancho Bernardo, right in the middle of the mandatory evacuation zone. I've been taking the street names that they give on the news and mapping them in my Thomas Guide, and it appears that my place of work may be ok. It's about a 1/2 mile south of the devastation, just off I-15. So I'm hoping I still have a job...

They just announced at noon that over a half million homes have been evacuated, and around 400,000 acres have burned. Didn't catch the latest number of homes lost, but as of dawn, it was around 1000. Unbelievable. A lot of friends I work with and people I know are going to be homeless for awhile...

[bignobody]

But my full-time job is in Rancho Bernardo, right in the middle of the mandatory evacuation zone. I've been taking the street names that they give on the news and mapping them in my Thomas Guide, and it appears that my place of work may be ok. It's about a 1/2 mile south of the devastation, just off I-15. So I'm hoping I still have a job...


Uh oh. I read this on fark.com's Southern California Fires Discussion Thread #6 (but remember, it's fark, so take it with a grain of salt) :

my wife just told me that Rancho Bernardo spa resort is burning down. :( that's where we went on our honeymoon.

Hope things work out for the best :(

[Escapee]

My mum's sister lives in San diego, she and the family have moved to a friend's house in Orange county but it appears the county is under threat of fire too as per email contact. We are worried about her safety there.

[Jason Chong]

Just saw the wildfire pics.

Man we thought the haze from indonesia was bad.


Living right smack in the middle with fires around is most definitely not healthy even if it doesn't reach you.

[GolfHacker]

Yeah, the winds have finally shifted, which means all of the smoke and ash that blew out into the Pacific in the past two days is now blowing right back into San Diego. We had been fortunate the past two days to have relatively clean air, but now the air quality is equally bad everywhere. Authorities are urging everyone to stay indoors for the next few days.

[Chris Evans]

The last 3 days have been crazy and it's still not over yet. The Santa Ana Winds are dying out but now the fires are moving erratically while the winds shift.

[SteveZ]

I was one of the luckier ones that didn't have to evacuate. But, the last 3 days ashes were in the air, making breathing difficult. The residence who stayed pretty much had to lock themselves in the house, close all windows, and turn on the AC.

-Steve Z.

[GolfHacker]

Same for us, Steve, though we left our AC off to help conserve power.

[Twitchfactor]

My house is 2 miles away from the Santiago Canyon fire.

My job's also 2 miles away from the fire. I get to smell the fire, as well as pass it every day, watching it get closer and closer to my house.

I'm not so worried about my house, "schtuff happens", but it's my newborn twins sucking in all this toxic air and the fact that I haven't even gotten a chance to make a mortgage payment before my house is threatened because some schmuck gets their jollies from lighting fires!

Wanna be famous? Wanna feel powerful? Want some excuse to jerk off (true, a cop friend said they busted pyros doing that all the time)? Go get a reality show, like all the other mutants out there!