Fires in Southern California

(lives in and is currently still in Napa btw)

staying inside/keeping the kids inside is def putting a strain on things

Wow this thread was started about the SD the fires my parents lost thier house in. Doesn't seem that long ago. I think I was only lurking ILM at the time

just found out at one of the places we'd stayed at burned down and they lost everything, except themselves and their dog. otherwise their home, guest house, animals, all gone.

My parents live just a few miles from Geyserville, but they're far enough west of 101 that it shouldn't be a problem. They're elderly, though, and the air is bad in that whole area with smoke.

Yeah it's been miserable up here -- the smoke in the air sucks your energy out.

A friend lost her home in Santa Rosa, near Coffey Park. She, her husband and pets were safe but the house, gone like you've seen in some photos. Very, very thankfully they had a condo still in their name -- they only recently moved into the house itself -- and have fallen back on it for now. Meantime, a coworker's partner's family is very heavily affected; a brother lost his apartment and a house their stepfather built is presumed lost.

My GF's sister and brother-in-law live in Mendocino county (haven't evacuated) and are firefighters so we've been worried sick all week. Thankfully one's a chief and the other's working comms on this one so they're not on the front lines but their crazy work hours and bad cell service mean we get long dreadful periods of silence between brief two-word check-ins by text.

Most of their town already burned down (their house was spared) earlier in the week so I'm hoping that puts them somewhat in the clear but with these winds and such low containment percentages you can't really feel comfortable.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Wine-Country-fires-first-fatal-hours-12278092.php

shit looks scary

Getty Center in jeopardy !

Do twitter videos embed?

Not the typical morning commute... pic.twitter.com/kJIOQeqsIK

— A. Mutzabaugh CMT (@WLV_investor) December 6, 2017

Almost as amazing feature of the video is that shows a faster than usual traffic flow for that stretch of the post-CARMAGEDDON 405.

hellscape right there ! insane

oops sorry, i've been posting over here: WILDFIRE

but this is a better-named thread

uh

Scary quote from Cal Fire re: forecast tomorrow: "There will be no ability to fight fires in these kinds of winds." (80+ mph expected)

— Joe Serna, LAT (@JosephSerna) December 6, 2017

The Getty Center
Next Exit

:(

how are yall able to breathe?

lol

west hollywood air quality index is okay: https://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&zipcode=90048&submit=Go

downtown la and parts of koreatown are usu worse on a regular day

also the smoke only affects the air quality for just a few days

Pasadena is clear and not windy.

Fixed pic.twitter.com/uUTmyNYBEa

— dorsey.mp4 (@dorseyshaw) December 6, 2017

https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/79630000/jpg/_79630637_alamydt7hcy.jpg

i hear rupert murdoch’s estate is on fire, so i guess it’s not all bad

the murdoch story is what got my attention in the first place (on the other, unkindly neglected thread)

my commute from sherman oaks to century city took two hours. its 11 miles.

is the 405 still closed off

think it fully reopened at 1pm.. so getting home should be ok. inshallah

how are yall able to breathe?

the smoke from these and the September fires is basically something in the sky that makes the light a bit murky. Fires in Australia can be stay-inside level choking from two hours' drive away.

this may have more to do with the direction the wind is blowing. air quality is bad up here in santa barbara. back patio covered in ash.

Spent a good amount of time house/dog sitting in Ojai, know the town and have good friends there, fingers crossed it doesn't burn.

the smoke from these and the September fires is basically something in the sky that makes the light a bit murky. Fires in Australia can be stay-inside level choking from two hours' drive away.

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, December 7, 2017 4:18 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

read this in Steve Irwin's voice.

I don't know her.

having trouble reconciling the "very unhealthy" AQI forecast with the somewhat meager recommendation that we simply stay indoors

I went to high school in ojai. lovely place. its in a tough spot tho - very narrow valley with one two lane freeway as the main route in and out.. but I could also see the fires skipping around it too..

AQI now hazardous with masks distributed at grocery stores

Looks like a small (2 acre) fire has just broken out in El Sereno. We're pretty close by in Montecito Heights and there are a bunch of fire trucks here and helicopters landing just down the street from us. Trying to figure out how concerned we should be! Bunch of smoke on the horizon but we're not close enough to see fire...

We're about a mile and a half away:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-el-sereno-fire-20171208-story.html

This is a lot of fires happening at once. I have my suspicions about some of them, I can't remember nearly this many occurring at the same time one right after another. I suppose it could just be conditions are perfect for it but still...

yeah def seems weird

Just saw a post on fb that Trevor Horn lost his home and studio in the fire, as did drummer Simon Phillips a day or two ago.

went to bed feeling good. not feeling so good now.

UCSB Cancels Finals Week, Postpones Fall Quarter

http://dailynexus.com/2017-12-10/breaking-ucsb-cancels-finals-week-postpones-fall-quarter-due-to-thomas-fire/

holy shit

our grad student neighbor high tailed it outta here a few hours ago, so I am not surprised. It looks like BotW blood moon out here.

if BotW were set in a 1988 pizza hut ash tray

Yeah my good friend Stripey who works at UCSB hightailed out this morning -- she figured she was going to get a mandatory evacuation notice anyway. Currently in Pismo Beach but the smoke's up there too.

We were in Pismo Beach and SLO since Thursday. Woke up this morning to view of smoke-filled sky in SLO and drove down to ready possible evacuation with more than the minimum this time (our cat, mostly).

As you noted, the AQI is much better down south. So I hope we can move that way if needed. You'd have to go far north or northeast to get away in that direction.

Damn hang in there...

There was another fire in Monrovia yesterday that I guess was knocked down.

"red flag day" not as bono advertised