Well it seems like half of Southern California is on fire. It's horrible out here and I hope all our members are OK - I know we have a few who live in the immediate fire areas, including some guys and gals that came up the coast on Saturday for a little cruise. The freeways shut down when I was coming back home and I hope they all made it home easily and safely.
I can see flames from my bedroom window. They are quite far away for now and I hope they come no closer. I can remember back in 1990 when we had a horrible fire, it started on my birthday. My dad was out in it all night and we didn't sleep for 2 or 3 days wondering where he was and hoping he was OK.
Here are some pics from around my yard of all the ash and soot.
When I got home from the cruise on Saturday I parked in the garage. When I woke up on Sunday morning my car was covered in ash and soot. Here is the spoiler of the SS.
Edit: Fixed the sideways pic.
[ 27. October 2003, 03:41 PM: Message edited by: mhayman ]
Posted by ss_rs_z (Member # 1888) on :
I was watching it on the Fox News Channel and it is very sad. Posted by Hawkeye (Member # 88) on :
That has to be very disturbing. Can't imagine having out of control fires that close to my home, and feeling helpless as it gets closer and closer. I hope mother nature gives you some rain!
Posted by 2002Z4CSS (Member # 1393) on :
Hope they get that fire under control soon.Too many pictures on the news of burned out houses. Posted by KevinA (Member # 139) on :
Unreal. I guess I picked a lousy time to go to San Diego. We leave on Halloween. Posted by Rhode Island Red (Member # 220) on :
quote:Originally posted by KevinA: Unreal. I guess I picked a lousy time to go to San Diego. We leave on Halloween.
be careful.. airports are reportin 6+ hour flight delays due to the smoke/ash in the air Posted by HTWLSS (Member # 117) on :
Don't let that ash sit on your car for long....The acidic ash might be hard on the paint. Get it inside of a garage or under a car cover (and wash the car cover well after the fires are out).
You'll also want to change your car's air filter (or clean it if it's a K&N, etc.).
Don't let that ash sit on your car for long....The acidic ash might be hard on the paint. Get it inside of a garage or under a car cover (and wash the car cover well after the fires are out).
You'll also want to change your car's air filter (or clean it if it's a K&N, etc.).
I can't believe you were there during that fire. I remember that and it was awful. I think losing all your belongings in a fire has to be the absolute worst. I remember my dad taking me around after the big fire here in 1990 and seeing homes and cars burnt, the smell, the destruction. I have some souvenirs of some parts from the sheriff's cars that literally melted in the heat.
I know how harsh the ash is on the paint but right now, the ash is so thick there's not much we can do about it. My car was parked inside the garage with the door closed overnight and still had all that ash all over it. I can't wash it either since it would be covered in ash faster than I could clean it. My truck sits outside and it's covered with it. I drive and it blows off. Let it sit for 5 minutes - covered again!! It sucks!!
The cars are really the last of my worries really. This stuff is getting in the house, clothing, bedding, even our hair. And we're not even that close!
[ 27. October 2003, 02:21 PM: Message edited by: mhayman ]
Posted by HTWLSS (Member # 117) on :
quote:Originally posted by mhayman: The cars are really the last of my worries really. This stuff is getting in the house, clothing, bedding, even your hair. And we're not even that close!
ACK. I remember what a mess Mt. St. Helens made when it blew. Ash was everywhere.
Sounds like you'll be changing a few filters on your heating/cooling system, too. Time to make a run to Home Depot for those before everyone else does!
Posted by DanPazich (Member # 1352) on :
Here is a site that provides some pretty large pics of the fires via satellite photo. It looks pretty devastating to me.
Search the site, there a quite a few pics.
Posted by Bishop187 (Member # 1691) on :
I'm out in Highland, CA and the fire burned within a couple hundred yards of my house. A lot of houses in my neighborhood went up in flames, fortunately none on my street. My sister and her family were evacuated on Saturday Morning from thier house in Rancho and they weren't allowed back until Monday evening. She says that everything accross the street was burned and gone, and that the vegitation in her front yard was burned, although her house and those on her side of the street were all spared. Its realy quite bad everywhere it seems. Its hard not to know someone who was directly affected by these fires. I just want to add that the firemen working out here are real heroes. I cant believe how hard they worked, and how they risked their lives to save the homes and property of others. Seeing how quickly the fire moves and the proximity of the firemen to the flames realy makes you take step back and re-evaluate things. At one point when the wind was gusting up around 60mph, I watched over 100 acres burn in about 6 minutes while firemen scrambled all around to save a few houses. Bravo.
Posted by lrdvadr (Member # 1382) on :
Just came back from Las Vegas. Despite being hundreds of miles from the fires, the smoke rolled into the Las Vegas valley on Wednesday, and was readily visible to us. I can't begin to imagine how terrible it must have been to wittness the actual fires from close proximity.
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