Re: Fires in Southern California

Nan, I am glad that you and your family are alright.

I've got about 5 friends and one coworker who are either from or live
in the San Diego area, and fortunately for them, they've been safe.
One of my friends lives in Fallbrook (where the avocado orchards were
burned), and she and her family have finally been able to go back. She
mentioned that since the chlorination plant for Fallbrook's water
supply had burned, never before had she realized how much we
westerners take clean, sanitary water for granted. Others live in San
Diego proper.

To give everyone a perspective of how big the evacuations were, this
has been the largest evacuation effort in peacetime, and our local
news said it is the biggest since the civil war. If wikipedia is to be
believed, the numbers of evacuees is four times that of the evacuation
during hurricane Katrina. Firefighters from all over the state have
been called down there, and the local news reported a Canadian
Supertanker plane is being sent to help out.

Up here in Monterey, there has been some high level smoke that has
been blown north from the smoke that the Santa Ana winds drove west.
It provided for a strange sunset (much yellower than they usually are,
and the horizon was filled with strange gray, brown, and dusty pink
"clouds").

What I find most interesting is, the fires started one to three days
after the anniversary of the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire, which was also
exacerbated by the northern California version of the Santa Anas, the
Diablo winds and begain on October 20th 1991..
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