Posted on 10/21/2007 9:48:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Oh, good! I can’t imagine leaving my babies behind. If I go, they go.
I still can’t reach any of my friends, although my husband got in touch with two of his. Both were evacuated, but doing fine.
El Toro is now receiving San Diego evacuees...also...
We have American Indian names for everything up here.
I noticed you guys have American Spanish names.
Was California once a non American territory?
Just curious to all the spanish names.
Well, there is no where near the destruction in San Diego as there was with Katrina. There may be an estimated 750,000 people evacuated but we would be counted as one of the homes evacuated but we are still here at home. We are no where near the fires at this time, by the way. (We are packed and ready to go we are about a minutes drive (or less) to interstate 15.)
Most of the evacuations are precautionary. They learned from the Cedar fire to evacuate early and not wait until the last minute and create panic. Black Mountain is directly behind us. We've been through this a few times before and last time we were not allowed back in after we were told that we would be. Most people on the street are gone some are still here. If the fire even begins to come close, we will be gone in a flash.
Take him up in a chopper and set him down in the middle of the fire and let him fry.
I can tell you this much about the changing winds.
In the area of Santee I live in, the winds are stronger now than they have been and are coming out of the SouthWest. I can barely make out the top of Rattlesnake Mountain, which is directly to my south. NOt even a quarter mile.
In fact, it looks bad enough that I need to make verify that it is just smoke from the Harris fire and not a new, closer fire.
afk
Did they ever do anything with the Marine base there in EL Toro? I know there were plans for houses and stores etc.
Check your History books...Spanish Missions up and down the coast of California.....
A Start:
3 areas in San Diego just had the evacuation order lifted.
I am so impressed with all the good people showing up to help or if evacuated helping others even in their time of need.
Kudo’s to Californians.
Prayers continue.
>>all that smoke is gonna come back when the winds change....<<
that is exactly what’s happening in my area now. I thought at first there may be a fire breaking out close to here but it is just the smoke blowing back on us.
Horrible air quality!
Hot damn! Who gets first shot?
LOL! You called that one : )
I hope they catch more of them.
I didn’t relize he had more than one.
I love the one he has up here in the PNW.
Built into a side of a mountain on the water.
Thanks!!
I’ll share.....
Stay inside. I remember the smoke from the Idylwild fire several + years ago. It actually hurt your lungs to breath that.
I think they were saying they'd be there by tomorrow morning. It's not much, but if they can spell a few exhausted firefighters it'll help.
I hope you didn't get anything higher than a D in high school US History. California was Spanish territory for 250+ years, then, when Meixico won its independence in the early 1800's it became part of Mexico until the Mexican War when the uS won and annexed California, and most of the Southwest (1848).
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