Fire in San Diego / SoCal

[BimmerToad]

You guys alright? Anyone here evacuated from their homes? My parents are away from the house in San Diego, but I'm getting pretty nervous from looking at these maps from the news :?

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114250687465160386813.00043d08ac31fe3357571

http://www.cbs8.com/misc/fires_oct_07/maps.html

Remembering the fire from a few years back, the sky over San Diego must look pretty apocalyptic. Any one with pics?

Hope you guys stay safe, and I wish you and your families the best.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Im having to deal with shitty air to breathe. The skys look like a nuclear winter scene in a movie... The Devore Fire is completly blocking out my "sun-ability" here. The gusts are about 40+ mph, and its a scary dry wind too. No moisture whatsoever.

[Car Addict]

sux good luck to everyone who is invlolved

[Pedro]

The one in Irvine was right by my work so they sent us all home yesterday. the smoke was getting in our building and the ash was just building up all over our cars.

[JPL]

ash is no good make sure you get it off all your cars asap

[M42Technik]

Seems like none are responding to any of these fire threads...maybe they can't reach a computer?

By day three, the dozen wildfires had burned more than 1,200 homes and businesses, and the destruction may only be the start for the region. With forecasts calling for hotter temperatures and fierce wind gusts, the flames were proving nearly impossible to fight.

At least 346,000 homes were evacuated in San Diego County alone, sheriff's officials said. But the total number could be much higher, and state officials were still struggling to estimate how many people had fled.

Here's to hoping everyone is alright, good luck fellas.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Seems like none are responding to any of these fire threads...maybe they can't reach a computer?



Here's to hoping everyone is alright, good luck fellas.

I heard 600 last night, 700 homes this morning when I loged on at work, but 1200? I had not heard that, I guess thats what happens when your busy working, an additional 500 family's lost their homes. My thoughts/prayers are with them all.

[aschmidt]

I just went for a jog, and the ash kept making me gag. I hope this gets resolved soon...best of luck to the people living right next to the fire.

[JasonC]

ash is no good make sure you get it off all your cars asap

And check your air filters too. Here are some pictures i got off of a f-body board that i'm on. The guy said these was taken at 2:30pm Sun.

Without flash


With flash


Said this one was south of the fire.


Don't know what time or where at?

[e34john]

It sucks, my throat hurts. Seems like the one 4 years ago was worse, ash was everywhere but this time it doesn't seem so bad but maybe because its just starting. I am pretty far away so it's not looking too bad but I should dig up the pictures of 4 year ago. It looked like a warzone I have a picture where everything was grey/brown with the orange glow there was crap flaoting around everywhere but if you look up theres just a bunch of firefighting helicopters flying around.

Don't know if ash is really that bad for the car's paint but i don't see why, its just carbon and its impossible to keep clean with the winds the way they are. Don't really care though theres bigger worries than the paint on my car.

[Turf1600]

Scary

[Turf1600]

http://www.weather.com/maps/news/forecastsummary/wildfiresmoke_large_animated.html

Those are not clouds...

[VacMan]

My house is right in the middle of 3 different fires but so far we've been really lucky. The Santa Anas are blowing southwest so we have a clean swath of air over us even though to the north and south there are huge clouds of smoke and ash. The wind is blowing so strongly that the clouds move horizontally and make it much worse for those in the path of it. Here at work it is ridiculously windy and smoky, even though the fire is over 20 miles away.

Here are a couple of pics I saw earlier that give you some idea of what it's like on the downwind side of the fires. this is exactly what it looked like at my house during the fire last year that killed 3 firefighters. :(





Good luck to anyone in the affected areas. Anyone who reads this and has no where to go is welcome to stay at our place 'til this thing is over.

Tim

[MoparJ]

Im having to deal with shitty air to breathe. The skys look like a nuclear winter scene in a movie... The Devore Fire is completly blocking out my "sun-ability" here. The gusts are about 40+ mph, and its a scary dry wind too. No moisture whatsoever.

I'm right down the street from you in Linda Vista; it definitely sucks, but at least there is no heavy ash like there was during the Cedar fire. I suppose that could change depending on wind conditions, though. Regardless, my allergies are going apeshit right now..:(

[bev]

This is to the NW. It isn't bad here around here since I'm more towards the ocean, but I couldn't see some of the hollywood hills and I couldn't see downtown today either. Figured since its a BMW forum I'd make it some what related. I heard more sneezes today more than usual, and people were going through the tissues pretty well.