California wildfire map.

sisterandcousinandaunt · 10-23-2007, 05:02 PM

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/03...t.exclude.html

More support for this being the end times.

I can't imagine all that beautiful area destroyed, and all the families thrown into chaos.

hectorberlioz · 10-23-2007, 05:04 PM

1,300 homes destroyed thus far

. God help them. I listened to the radio last night. It was pretty constant stream of news from all the areas being evacuated.

Curubethion · 10-23-2007, 05:16 PM

Wowza...

***Earniel*** · 10-23-2007, 05:57 PM

With all the fires in Greece, Italy and Portugal this year, I was kind of wondering when California was going to get hit, since that region is also fire-prone. Let's hope that nasty wind settles down and they can contain and control the fire.

The Gaffer · 10-23-2007, 06:26 PM

Must be terrible to see your whole life go up in flames.

Nautipus · 10-23-2007, 07:19 PM

Let's hope that no one else has to know what that's like. Although, and I hate to be negative, this wind is definately not going to help matters.

Lief Erikson · 10-23-2007, 07:54 PM

*Double post.*

Lief Erikson · 10-23-2007, 07:57 PM

A woman at my college class today was forced out of her home in San Diego by the fires. She brought her daughter or much younger sister to class today, because they had to evacuate.

In another class, there was a woman who said her house was only a block or two from the fire, and my sister has someone in her class who was very close to the fire.

The fire is too far away from my own house for our property to be in any danger at all.

I was very relieved recently to learn that the Wild Animal Park in San Diego, which my family often visits, is secure. I love the Wild Animal Park.

I can see the vast, dingy brown smoke cloud hanging in the sky from my house. It looks like a gigantic cloud. It's just usually the clouds are either fluffy white or thick gray, in California, but this time it's dingy brown like dirt. The heat here is very intense. It was a hundred degrees today.

The Santa Anna winds were howling incessantly yesterday and the day before, carrying a ton of grit that makes the eyes sting and everything one touches rough under the finger. There's lots of static electricity present everywhere. Today the Santa Annas haven't been strong at all where I live, though. Yesterday and the day before they were, but not today. They're what's carrying the fire.

One has the smell of ash constantly in one's nose, whether inside the house or outside, though it's especially strong outside.

We have the news on every evening now, watching the blaze and hearing the latest information.

We're very glad it's not near enough to our own house to endanger our property.

Half a million people have evacuated from their homes - the number has doubled in one day - and over a thousand houses have so far been burned. Two people have died, as far as is presently known.

Nautipus · 10-23-2007, 08:02 PM

Geez.........Be careful, Lief, though I doubt that me saying that means much practically.

Lief Erikson · 10-23-2007, 08:05 PM

Like I said earlier, my house is a long way from the blaze. We're in no danger at all. I just thought I'd offer my close-up far away perspective.

Acalewia · 10-23-2007, 08:59 PM

I pray these winds die down enough for the fire fighters to at least control some of it. Earlier, a reporter from a San Diego news station was reporting from in front of his burning house. These fires are a horrible disaster.

sisterandcousinandaunt · 10-23-2007, 10:17 PM

Pet shelters. If anyone knows someone affected, you can pass this on to them.
VCA Animal Hospitals Offers Free Boarding for Pets Affected by Southern
> California Fires
>
> http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/Aktie/127...3/SOUTHERN.html
>
> VCA Animal Hospitals announced today that local SOUTHERN California VCA
> facilities are offering free boarding for companion animals whose
> families have been evacuated or displaced as a result of the current
> firestorms. Conveniently located VCA animal hospitals will provide a
> safe environment for pets that have been affected by the fires through
> November 5, 2007 on a space available basis.

Lief Erikson · 10-24-2007, 04:33 PM

White flecks of ash were covering our car when I went down to it today to drive off to college with my sister. The sun is a reddish orange glare, because the smoke cloud is blocking it. The heat continues very high, but thankfully we have cool tile floors in our house, and at college there is air conditioning in the buildings. I hid in the library while not in class, to avoid the heat.

It's very strange to me to be able to witness myself (mercifully, to a very limited degree) one of these major events I keep reading about on the news.

tolkienfan · 10-27-2007, 08:51 PM

I heard that they think that someone deliberately started it. I can hardly believe that.

My friend's neighborhood was mostly destroyed, thankfully their house was mostly saved. To think that I was living there a few months ago...

Acalewia · 10-28-2007, 07:34 PM

And I've heard they offering a very hefty reward for information.

10-23-2007, 05:02 PM	#1
sisterandcousinandaunt Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,535	California wildfire map. http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/03...t.exclude.html More support for this being the end times. I can't imagine all that beautiful area destroyed, and all the families thrown into chaos. __________________ That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May

10-23-2007, 05:04 PM	#2
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	1,300 homes destroyed thus far. God help them. I listened to the radio last night. It was pretty constant stream of news from all the areas being evacuated. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

10-23-2007, 05:16 PM	#3
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Wowza... __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

10-23-2007, 05:57 PM	#4
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	With all the fires in Greece, Italy and Portugal this year, I was kind of wondering when California was going to get hit, since that region is also fire-prone. Let's hope that nasty wind settles down and they can contain and control the fire. __________________ We are not things.

10-23-2007, 07:19 PM	#6
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	Let's hope that no one else has to know what that's like. Although, and I hate to be negative, this wind is definately not going to help matters. __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

10-23-2007, 06:26 PM	#5
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	Must be terrible to see your whole life go up in flames.

10-23-2007, 07:54 PM	#7
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Double post. __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." Last edited by Lief Erikson : 10-23-2007 at 07:58 PM.

10-23-2007, 07:57 PM	#8
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	A woman at my college class today was forced out of her home in San Diego by the fires. She brought her daughter or much younger sister to class today, because they had to evacuate. In another class, there was a woman who said her house was only a block or two from the fire, and my sister has someone in her class who was very close to the fire. The fire is too far away from my own house for our property to be in any danger at all. I was very relieved recently to learn that the Wild Animal Park in San Diego, which my family often visits, is secure. I love the Wild Animal Park. I can see the vast, dingy brown smoke cloud hanging in the sky from my house. It looks like a gigantic cloud. It's just usually the clouds are either fluffy white or thick gray, in California, but this time it's dingy brown like dirt. The heat here is very intense. It was a hundred degrees today. The Santa Anna winds were howling incessantly yesterday and the day before, carrying a ton of grit that makes the eyes sting and everything one touches rough under the finger. There's lots of static electricity present everywhere. Today the Santa Annas haven't been strong at all where I live, though. Yesterday and the day before they were, but not today. They're what's carrying the fire. One has the smell of ash constantly in one's nose, whether inside the house or outside, though it's especially strong outside. We have the news on every evening now, watching the blaze and hearing the latest information. We're very glad it's not near enough to our own house to endanger our property. Half a million people have evacuated from their homes - the number has doubled in one day - and over a thousand houses have so far been burned. Two people have died, as far as is presently known. __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

10-23-2007, 08:02 PM	#9
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	Geez.........Be careful, Lief, though I doubt that me saying that means much practically. __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

10-23-2007, 08:05 PM	#10
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Like I said earlier, my house is a long way from the blaze. We're in no danger at all. I just thought I'd offer my close-up far away perspective. __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

10-23-2007, 08:59 PM	#11
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	I pray these winds die down enough for the fire fighters to at least control some of it. Earlier, a reporter from a San Diego news station was reporting from in front of his burning house. These fires are a horrible disaster. __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

10-23-2007, 10:17 PM	#12
sisterandcousinandaunt Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,535	Pet shelters. If anyone knows someone affected, you can pass this on to them. VCA Animal Hospitals Offers Free Boarding for Pets Affected by Southern > California Fires > > http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/Aktie/127...3/SOUTHERN.html > > VCA Animal Hospitals announced today that local SOUTHERN California VCA > facilities are offering free boarding for companion animals whose > families have been evacuated or displaced as a result of the current > firestorms. Conveniently located VCA animal hospitals will provide a > safe environment for pets that have been affected by the fires through > November 5, 2007 on a space available basis. __________________ That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May

10-24-2007, 04:33 PM	#13
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	White flecks of ash were covering our car when I went down to it today to drive off to college with my sister. The sun is a reddish orange glare, because the smoke cloud is blocking it. The heat continues very high, but thankfully we have cool tile floors in our house, and at college there is air conditioning in the buildings. I hid in the library while not in class, to avoid the heat. It's very strange to me to be able to witness myself (mercifully, to a very limited degree) one of these major events I keep reading about on the news. __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." Last edited by Lief Erikson : 10-24-2007 at 04:35 PM.

10-27-2007, 08:51 PM	#14
tolkienfan Elf Lord Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Internet Posts: 803	I heard that they think that someone deliberately started it. I can hardly believe that. My friend's neighborhood was mostly destroyed, thankfully their house was mostly saved. To think that I was living there a few months ago... __________________ Don't be hasty! Thanks so much to Last Child of Ungoliant, Twista, and BeardofPants for my avatar!

10-28-2007, 07:34 PM	#15
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	And I've heard they offering a very hefty reward for information. __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

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