Comments on: It’s Too Bad That

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:02:39 +0000

Yep, the fires move a lot of animals around, and not always animals you like.

The wind would help clear the smoke, but it will also kick up the fires, and a lot of new ones have popped up. CalFire currently lists 11 active fires, and RPV isn’t yet on the list.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:47:36 +0000

Yeah…I’m not counting on much sleep. It’s one thing if it’s your home…it’s different when it’s someone elses and you aren’t truly comfortable. Thankfully I know the area…and my gas tank is full for getaway.

I’m kitty sitting, too, and the coyote in the drive way yesterday afternoon didn’t ease our minds, either.
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By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:20:49 +0000

In reply to cookie jill. We posted at the same time, Jill. That looks like fuel to me. If there had just been a couple of inches of rain over the past week I might feel different, but not under current conditions.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:16:23 +0000

In reply to cookie jill. I would probably have dug a slit trench and had a bucket of of water, a heavy wool blanket, a space blanket, and a gas mask in it ready to go if the helicopter didn't start immediately. I watched a wildfire shoot up the wall of Mission Valley in San Diego, and logged that as another reason not to live near a canyon.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:03:38 +0000

Beautiful…but a little scary right now.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1808+Stanwood,+Santa+Barbara&sll=34.449796,-119.716315&sspn=0.035389,0.054846&ie=UTF8&ll=34.443495,-119.674716&spn=0.008848,0.013711&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=34.443413,-119.674661&panoid=XhBzczt_tLQWNJxqi6P1CQ&cbp=12,31.77,,0,-6.58
.-= last blog ..Santa Barbara is Foodie Festival Central =-.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:00:48 +0000

Not vacation for me…I’m housesitting for friends who reside in the fire deathtrap known as Mission Canyon. Amazingly beautiful…but scary, scary. It’s dry, hot and the wind is blowing. It’s the type of weather that keeps you on edge knowing that things can go up in a second. The house (we also call it the Ponderosa) is just a stone’s throw away from the site of my friends old home that has burned down 2x.

It’s going to be a long weekend.

Perhaps I shouldn’t watch the Los Angeles coverage of the Rancho PV fire.
.-= last blog ..Santa Barbara is Foodie Festival Central =-.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:32:19 +0000

In reply to hipparchia.

Yeah, Hipparchia, after the first dozen they are all the same : wind, rain, soul-sucking terror, then back-breaking clean-ups, watching the libertarian/Repubs line the trough to get any free things that anyone might hand out.

Isn’t it nice that someone cares about rate payers, Jill?

Two fires in the Angeles National Forest, one in the San Bernardino, and three fires on Camp Pendleton – good time for a vacation.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:54:01 +0000

I miss SMUD.

http://www.smud.org/en/Pages/index.aspx

and every Californian should thank the Snohomish County PUD as they were the ones that actually taped Enron folks laughing about stickin’ it to the State and brought forward evidence against them for price rigging/gauging.

http://www.snopud.com/
.-= last blog ..Santa Barbara is Foodie Festival Central =-.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:06:31 +0000

we had people here from montreal after at least one hurricane [might have been erin/opal, i can't remember, the memories all run together after awhile]. .-= last blog ..Fortunately, =-.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:01:47 +0000

In reply to hipparchia. I think it was a New Jersey crew that restored my power after Ivan. The local crews tend to deal with the main lines, while the other guys take over the "retail" fixes, but, yes, there are massive numbers of outside people after hurricanes.