Category — Current Events

From the hills of Malibu to the Border of Mexico, California is on fire. More than 500, 000 people have been evacuated as of 9am this morning - just to put it in perspective, that’s more people than were displaced in hurricane Katrina. Try to wrap your noodle around that. More than 1200 homes have been destroyed, Qualcomm stadium is packed with people with no where to go, and the hotels have been completely booked for 48 hours everywhere in California. Firefighters need the Santa Ana winds to die down to even begin to start containing the blaze. Julie and I have been extraordinarily lucky - all we have to complain about is that our kitchen smells like a Texas Rib cookoff.

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Last night Julie and I took a gander outside our apartment to try to find out who could possibly be holding the BBQ in our neighborhood that was sprinkling ash all over our kitchen. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a black sky. We’ve been tuned into the news and the radio ever since. Fires, fed by roaring Santa Ana winds are tearing through San Diego county. Check out the NASA picture to the right - even from space, the fires look biblical.

I woke up this morning to a declared state of emergency just north in Del Mar, Carmel Valley and Rancho Bernardo. More than 8 Fires have covered immense ground and the buzz is that the winds are so strong that they may make it all the way to the ocean 15-20 minutes drive north of our house. Thousands of people are being evacuated all over San Diego just north and just south of us. Qualcomm Stadium has been opened for evacuees (sorry, no horses - I never knew that that would be a problem, but there are frequent no animals warnings from every news source). No one is equipped for this. [Read more →]