[onyx]

This is a nightmare from hell.

[Hildy]

This is the worst thing I've seen. I've bit every fingernail I have. The fire now has crossed over to El Cajon. If it travels a bit south, I'm in trouble.

[CARepubGal]

Heartbreaking and terrifying.

[Travis McGee]

I live 3 miles south of Mount Soledad in PB, and I drove my kids up just before sunset. (This is a famous mountain atop La Jolla near the coast, with a big cross on top that the ACLU hates.)

Hundreds of sight-seers were there, taking pictures and gawking.

The air was pure and clean, no ash at all, a seabreeze was coming in. The sun in the west was blood red while still high above the horizon.

To the east you could see almost all of SD County shrouded in thick gray smoke. As it got dark, fires east along 52 near Mission Gorge were visible, and more fires up toward Escondido. Most of the fires were invisible in all the smoke.