Firestorm In South Cal.

Hi everyone, just to drop a bit of reality here.

The fire in South Cal. has gotten worse now, and my prayers go to all the people living in Southern California, hope their homes are safe, and they are safe with their families.

Here is what gathered from news radion and TV station, and of course my own eyes. When I woke up yesterday morning (I live in Sorrento Valley, close to I-15), the sky was half-covered with black clouds, it was surreal and it was like end of the world. Then later on, ashes started to continuously fall from sky, this reminded me the city of Pompey.

As today the fire is not even close from being contained. Several schools have been closed (as far as I know UCSD, Mira Mesa High School, SDSU), and mayor urged people to stay home and asked employers to let employees not to go to work. The sky is still covered with smokes, no sun. Air condition is very poor, and ashes continuously to fall from sky. This morning when I walked to my car, my car was covered with ashes. Not much car on freeways, since most people stayed home, and monitor the fire situation, just in case they need to evacuated.

I hope we will get help from other states soon, since request has been made, and hopefully put this fire off soon. To other members that live in affected areas, I hope u are safe and please post any updates on any new developments, thanks!

#70021

I use to live in Rancho Cucamonga, in San Bernadino county. My home!

#70022

sh##, its funny how all the efforts a state can put into killing that fire the fire pretty much will keep on doing what it pleases...

Im very sorry for you guys (obviously including other non members) and i hope the situation doesnt get any worse....

#70024

I live in San Diego, exactly in front of evacuation site (Qualcomm Stadium).

I hope this will end as soon as possible.

#70026

I just hope that the power will still be up. I've heard that SDGE is replacing about 200 poles, since many of them have been burned down.

#70029

I live in Scripps Ranch, where around 300 homes were destroyed. My house was ok, but friends of mine lost their homes. It was really scary to see all this stuff happen so close. Watching the ashes fall down from the sky all night long. Very unreal stuff, but at least there weren't many injuries. Only property lost.

The pictures here are taken from outside of my house showing the massive clouds of smoke that covered the sky and now give the whole sky an orange tint.

if you would like to see more pictures of the fire in scripps ranch you can go to scrippsranch.org

#70295

what an unbelievable show of nature's power. nice pics, but i sincerely hope that everyone is ok. i have some friends in san diego, so i think i'll give them a call to see if they're all right.

i wish everyone the best.

#70297

stuff like this is good as long as nobody gets hurt. Adds excitement to life.

plus it reminds people how ridiculous suburbia is... ie. look at taht last picture, its really quite funny. A house burned here, a house burned there, as long as nobody's in 'em, everythings peachy.

hope nothing hits you guys.

#70306