SoCal Burns Again: Bumped And Updated
Picture from the Gulbransens' blog, a family living the horror.
Pray for the folks in Orange, San Diego and San Bernardino counties as they live through yet more hellish fires powered by the Santa Anna winds or devil winds as these fires happen almost every year. This has been one very expensive fire season this year when combined with the Tahoe fire earlier this year as hundreds of expensive homes have been destroyed and these fires are zero percent contained. I am hearing that hundreds of thousands of folks are being evacuated, this is not good as most of San Diego county could burn in this conflagration. I understand two of the worst are the result of arson, I don't have words for folks that would do that. Thank the Lord only one person has perished.
If you are down there and are a reader of the Barnyard please email me or post in the comments your observations.
Update: Blogger buddy Don at American Power lives down there and has a post up.
Michelle Malkin is also covering it with links to other SoCal bloggers covering this horrible story.
Update: Here is a map showing the scope of the fires, ouch, it is a massive area hundreds of square miles.
If you are down there and are a reader of the Barnyard please email me or post in the comments your observations.
Update: Blogger buddy Don at American Power lives down there and has a post up.
Michelle Malkin is also covering it with links to other SoCal bloggers covering this horrible story.
Update: Here is a map showing the scope of the fires, ouch, it is a massive area hundreds of square miles.
Update: It didn't take long before the moonbats started blaming President Bush
Update: From another blogger friend in San Diego.
She emails" We're good. It's missed us so far. We're just south of the Witch Creek fire--the really big one. It's smoky and the air quality sucks, but we're fine so far. I need to put some of the pictures up that we took last night. It's like hell in the south."
8 comments:
I'm extremely thankful I'm not down there, Goat. I hope none of the fires were started by arson. Mother nature is cruel enough to that part of the country without arsonists adding to it, but we know they do. All we can do is pray that the winds die down and that they will get some much needed rain.
Gayle I know at least two of the seventeen fires were started by arson. Two of the worst at that.
I have an aunt living in San Diego whom I contacted earlier -- luckily, she told me, the nearest fire is more than ten miles from where she lives and is not expected to make it there.
(Fingers crossed)
Those fires are nothing nice -- the closest I've ever been to one was on an evening in Reno when the mountains to the west of us were ablaze -- in the dark you could see the fire vividly and the air was literally filled, even miles away, with ash.
Everybody and everything in downtown Reno smelled as though we'd been right up there by the fire.
The difference there was that most of what was burning was unpopulated. In these California fires, thousands of people who are able to get out of the burning areas alive will lose everything they own.
Tragic.
Seth, in this fire 10 miles is less than thirty minutes of burn. It has moved as fast as 60 mph in those winds. Last I heard the evacuations were approaching a half mil and nearly 2000 homes and businesses are now ash.
Well, I know there a handful of church going conservatives in California, but I just can't help laughing about the imagery of a state with the largest atheist population in the nation succumbing so brutally to 'ACTS OF GOD'. That's just funny.
I can't believe every morning when I wake up and look at the news that California hasn't fallen into the sea yet. Between Hollywood, San Franciso's permiscuous gays and a general godlessness, I don't know how the state exists for so long.
Amy Proctor: Chill out with the fire and brimstone. All we can do is offer compassion and empathize.
Amy, the counties that are burning are all Republican strongholds in the land of fruits and nuts.
Goat, I have information that the FBI was told by an AlQueida prisoner that there was a plan to set fires on the west coast. The FBI didn't think it was necessary to inform anyone. This may not be an "act of nature" after all!
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