Good morning. Mrs Sven is still in the SFV -- I opted to spend the night here. Some road closures in the area but no fires nearby and the main body was spreading east and south of us earlier today. The winds were light to nothing overnight, but a Santa Ana type out of the Northeast is blowing in now, so everything may change. Still no real and present danger near our place.
Important stuff packed by the door and exit routes planned. I’ll just keep an eye on things. Tired tho -- up since about 3:30.
Most of the news here, Mac, is reruns from yesterday. Hard to get any accurate current information. I’m not seeing any smoke or flames nor hearing any sirens, so that’s good enough.
Happy “Deer Belly” Tuesday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Sven, and Mac!
Sven -- I’m sure you felt better spending the night at home, rather than watching things from afar. The one thing that has surprised me is the lack of air resources overnight. As of this moment they only have one helicopter and a tactical airplane on site.
Hi, Paddy -- it’s an oddity. Talking with the neighbors that are still here -- which is most of them -- our thought is this is becoming more of a prescribed burn/training exercise. Right now, it ought to be moving south and west through open hilly terrain. That area has been a gateway in the past for truly massive wildfires, so letting it burn now while conditions are favorable would not be a bad idea.
A couple of oddities. Our garbage pickup is scheduled for tomorrow -- i called the company to check if they planned on coming in Wednesday or would they be pushing pickup out until the the evac orders are lifted. Their CS didn’t know -- no one had said anything about it. They promised to escalate and send out a notice tonight.
Another thing, the county water department had notified everyone last week that our water would be shut off for 8 hours today, 7-3, for some routine maintenance. That was the entire street and maybe elsewhere as well. A neighbor checked yesterday if they still planned on doing that. No one there had considered not doing it. There’s eight fire hydrants on this road, one right on our property, but no one thought about postponing the water shutoff. They got back to her last night, well after we were supposed to evac and said they would reschedule it.
The lack of coordination is surprising, even for California.
Good morning. Mrs Sven is still in the SFV -- I opted to spend the night here. Some road closures in the area but no fires nearby and the main body was spreading east and south of us earlier today. The winds were light to nothing overnight, but a Santa Ana type out of the Northeast is blowing in now, so everything may change. Still no real and present danger near our place.
Important stuff packed by the door and exit routes planned. I’ll just keep an eye on things. Tired tho -- up since about 3:30.
So glad to hear from you. Thank you. I was just reading a news story about the fire.
Most of the news here, Mac, is reruns from yesterday. Hard to get any accurate current information. I’m not seeing any smoke or flames nor hearing any sirens, so that’s good enough.
Happy “Deer Belly” Tuesday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Sven, and Mac!
Sven -- I’m sure you felt better spending the night at home, rather than watching things from afar. The one thing that has surprised me is the lack of air resources overnight. As of this moment they only have one helicopter and a tactical airplane on site.
Hi, Paddy -- it’s an oddity. Talking with the neighbors that are still here -- which is most of them -- our thought is this is becoming more of a prescribed burn/training exercise. Right now, it ought to be moving south and west through open hilly terrain. That area has been a gateway in the past for truly massive wildfires, so letting it burn now while conditions are favorable would not be a bad idea.
A couple of oddities. Our garbage pickup is scheduled for tomorrow -- i called the company to check if they planned on coming in Wednesday or would they be pushing pickup out until the the evac orders are lifted. Their CS didn’t know -- no one had said anything about it. They promised to escalate and send out a notice tonight.
Another thing, the county water department had notified everyone last week that our water would be shut off for 8 hours today, 7-3, for some routine maintenance. That was the entire street and maybe elsewhere as well. A neighbor checked yesterday if they still planned on doing that. No one there had considered not doing it. There’s eight fire hydrants on this road, one right on our property, but no one thought about postponing the water shutoff. They got back to her last night, well after we were supposed to evac and said they would reschedule it.
The lack of coordination is surprising, even for California.
You’re right, that’s bad even for California. Checking CalFire, it doesn’t appear that the fire has grown today. That’s a good thing.
There’s all manner of conflicting and just plain inane information -- hard to know what’s really going on.