Socal fires

[Rockenreno]

Anyone else near the fires down here? I'm in La Jolla and the fires are just a few miles to the east of me. The 15 and 52 have been shut down and the sky is red and raining ash like crazy. I should be ok since I'm real close to the ocean, but I know a bunch of people in the middle of this thing who live just a few miles east of me. Anyone else affected by this blaze?

[C-Kwik]

My car is covered in ash. I'm in Orange County. Sucks, cuz I want to wash my car, but it will just get dirty again.

[knowleqe]

:Werd

[gabossie]

I'm in Northern Claremont above Baseline and I had to evacuate last night around 4:00AM. Fortunatly the winds died down and when it got light they brought out the helicopters to stop it one hill over from my house. Needless to say, the ash here if falling like rain and I just washed my car on Monday.

[TachyonS14]

I'm In Riverside, so we are gettin hit hard with ash, but not nearly as hard as others. It freakin sucks the sky is dark red all day and that burning smell is giving me a HEADACHE!!! I hope they catch those bastards that did it ! Also, I washed my car on monday too.

[prigo]

I'm in El Segundo, and we're gettin ashed too.

[PalmerWMD]

Hope no NICO cars get burned.

Fred..

[BuudWeizErr]

Here are some pics of the San Bernardino Fire from my area. Mind you, I'm about 20 miles away, San Bernardino is just on the otherside of the mountain. Oh yeah, and my cam sucks.... ***.

From AM/PM

From the Highway

From the Highway, about 500 feet from my house.

I am just north of San Bernardino, about 20 miles as the crow flies.

And just so you guys know, that is just one fire. There are two other fires to the west (about 30 miles from the eastern fire to the western fire) that I can see from my house, but they aren't as easy to see.

[[Zero-S]]

:sad

I really hope you guys remain safe.

[gabossie]

You guys should have seen it last night, I wish I had my camera. At about 3:30 in the morning I took a walk down the street to get a better look at the fire because I could no longer see the flames out my window, and it was incredible. It was really cool until about 4:30 when the cops told us we had to leave, then I got a bit stressed. EVERYTHING is covered in ash though, it sucks. And it's getting dark REALLY early too (not because of daylight savings), like 3-4 PM it's feels like 6-7 PM.

[BuudWeizErr]

I'm straight, I live on a plateau, it's really flat here, not much shrubbery within about a 50 mile diameter, except for those mountains you can see.

I am worried about one of my friends though, he lives in San Bernardino, near the hill. His name is Stock-S13 here.

[gabossie]

You would be suprised though how few things you really feel you need to keep when you have to leave your place though. I took my laptop, my external hard drive, a quilt made for my by my ex-gf's mom, some pics, and my current architecture project. Everything else, is just stuff.

[quiksilvia]

ive been watching it on the news at work, sounds more like a volcanoe with all the ash and what not, if any nico guys lose anything, we could start a socal-nico-fire-fund

[gabossie]

if any nico guys lose anything, we could start a socal-nico-fire-fund

Sounds good to me! Hmmmm....what can I burn??....:icesangel

[prigo]

ive been watching it on the news at work, sounds more like a volcanoe with all the ash and what not

It reminds me of the movie Dante's Peak :|

[Rockenreno]

update on the fire... the red spray is approximate location of the fire, red star is me and my communist bastard roomate. (had to come up with excuse for the red star, and my roomate's russian, go figure). Anyway, no school at UCSD tomorrow... though I don't have moday classes anyways. Also, the only freeway open is I-5, everything else is shut down due to fire. Over 100,000 acres has burned, hundreds of buildings destroyed, and I think the death toll is around 15 right now. This is crazy...

[krazy skwerel]

Man thats a lot of fire. Hope you folks are all ok.

[BuudWeizErr]

That is just the San Diego area.

You should see farther north.

Last count was 260,000 acres with 5% containment.

[driftaholic]

here's a fun maphttp://activefiremaps.fs.fed.u...0.jpg

[Creture546]

i am in clairemont mesa EVERYTHING is ash covered the fire it like 7 miles from me

~Seth

[yeswepromise]

meh. breathing is kind of difficult sometimes. i am pretty damn far away from them fires but it smells like fire inside my house. it really sucks.

[quiksilvia]

when i was at UNR for a football camp, there were huge fires going, it was hella hard to breathe while running in hot sun, so i know how that feels

[TachyonS14]

I just got done spending a couple hours trying to clean all the ash outta my pool... GRRRR

[C-Kwik]

Hmm? We should dump a few dead cows in each fire. Maybe then it will at least smell like BBQ.

[gabossie]

Hmm? We should dump a few dead cows in each fire. Maybe then it will at least smell like BBQ.

I'm not sure if I should praise that idea, or tell you that you should seek :help

[Rockenreno]

http://www.scrippsranch.org/sp...y.asp

some good pictures of the fire near San Diego...

http://www.scrippsranch.org/sp...2.jpg^ basically what I saw when I woke up on sunday... except more red/orange and less grey in sky

[driftaholic]

here's another good pic

[nomuken]

here's another good pic

nice image. here's another with the cities marked

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Event...O.jpg

[quiksilvia]

up here in sac, i noticed today that the sky looks really hazy, prolly a coincidence, but thats wierd

[driftaholic]

weird, on that one with the cities marked, the dot for LA is in eastern long beach wtf?

definately a coincidence, as the smoke is distinctly moving south-west according to our leet images. the haze you saw is probably from teh reefer