10-23-2007, 08:11 PM
Imagine that.. 500,000 evacuated.. that's official.. news conference from S. Diego County Office of Emerg Svcs .. not all at once, but close..
UPDATE.. when I wrote 500,000 that was about 15 minutes ago. As the news conference ended they raised it to 513,000
Some neighborhods were just opened up for re-occupation... some folk can return.. some.
A total of 324,000 residences (homes and apartments) have been put under one form of Evacuation or another. That's a third of all residences in S Diego County. County is only 4500 sq miles.. about 75x60 miles...
The Leg IX folks across LA, Orange, San Bernardina and Riverside counties (north of San Diego) are troopers! Offers of assitance, crash space etc. My phone's (both of them) have been ringing off the hook. LEG IX HQ in San Diego is AOK, no threat but we've our essentials at hand.
Folks from our extended SCA Household are pulling together.. about 8 have had to evacuate.. most going to one lady's house.. party party party!
The fire in south S Diego County is just a few miles east from Scithius's villa but the wind is about 7MPH instead of 37MPH and that is good!. Cristobal watched the fire at Mt San Miguel south from her house. Same for Arachnia, who lives much much closer, who's second floor was aglow with firelight all night long. She didn't get any sleep. Haven't heard from G Marius Trajanus today. He lives in an evac area of Poway.
Newer and new fires in north S Diego County ...
-Palomar Mtn fire is 3000acres+, That's where the famous observatory is located and they just issued evac orders for the whole mountain... scattered homes, and a few tiny communities
- 2 small fires on Camp Pendleton US Marine Base, a growing fire in east county mountains.. Cuyamaca/Descanso area.. winds in the mountains reaching 40+ MPH. Much lower wind speeds along the coasts and in coastal canyons, but they'll pick up mid afternoon. Fire fighters have abandoned a canyon area in Fallbrook (north San Diego County).. winds are too high... the fire is laying across the ground as the fire is driven onward! They expect that fire to connect up with one burning near Escondido the Witch Creek Fire. A wing of that same fire's burning west towards LaCosta, Fairbanks Ranch and the Pacific Ocean.
Just heard that Ramona lost its main power source that drives its water pumps.. that means NO municipal water.. two 40' truck mounted generators are on their way to Ramona. But it'll take about 12 hours for them to set up and get the pumps back on line.... and the winds in Ramona are picking up!!
The Harris/Potrero Fire, the one Scithius is near is also spreading south towards the Mexico border, out east in the mountains near its source at Potrero... i'ts spreading east and north.. slowly but spreading .
The Gov is here, FEMA chief, Homeland Security Secy, the Prez arrives tomorrow.
1000+ homes across the County gone... and that's just the official guess
We're being asked not water lawns, wash vehicles..ie: restrict water use. Too much water use reduces water presure.... some fire trucks as pumpers hook up to a fire hydrant and suck water out of the piping. If the pressure is low they sometimes suck air. Lots of trucks sucking water... Already reports of trucks losing water pressure and volume partly because well intentioned folk left hoses on, on their roof tops etc. When they do that they leave an open line to air when pumpers start drawing water from the hydrant system. A problem in older neighborhoods.
More later!
UPDATE.. when I wrote 500,000 that was about 15 minutes ago. As the news conference ended they raised it to 513,000
Some neighborhods were just opened up for re-occupation... some folk can return.. some.
A total of 324,000 residences (homes and apartments) have been put under one form of Evacuation or another. That's a third of all residences in S Diego County. County is only 4500 sq miles.. about 75x60 miles...
The Leg IX folks across LA, Orange, San Bernardina and Riverside counties (north of San Diego) are troopers! Offers of assitance, crash space etc. My phone's (both of them) have been ringing off the hook. LEG IX HQ in San Diego is AOK, no threat but we've our essentials at hand.
Folks from our extended SCA Household are pulling together.. about 8 have had to evacuate.. most going to one lady's house.. party party party!
The fire in south S Diego County is just a few miles east from Scithius's villa but the wind is about 7MPH instead of 37MPH and that is good!. Cristobal watched the fire at Mt San Miguel south from her house. Same for Arachnia, who lives much much closer, who's second floor was aglow with firelight all night long. She didn't get any sleep. Haven't heard from G Marius Trajanus today. He lives in an evac area of Poway.
Newer and new fires in north S Diego County ...
-Palomar Mtn fire is 3000acres+, That's where the famous observatory is located and they just issued evac orders for the whole mountain... scattered homes, and a few tiny communities
- 2 small fires on Camp Pendleton US Marine Base, a growing fire in east county mountains.. Cuyamaca/Descanso area.. winds in the mountains reaching 40+ MPH. Much lower wind speeds along the coasts and in coastal canyons, but they'll pick up mid afternoon. Fire fighters have abandoned a canyon area in Fallbrook (north San Diego County).. winds are too high... the fire is laying across the ground as the fire is driven onward! They expect that fire to connect up with one burning near Escondido the Witch Creek Fire. A wing of that same fire's burning west towards LaCosta, Fairbanks Ranch and the Pacific Ocean.
Just heard that Ramona lost its main power source that drives its water pumps.. that means NO municipal water.. two 40' truck mounted generators are on their way to Ramona. But it'll take about 12 hours for them to set up and get the pumps back on line.... and the winds in Ramona are picking up!!
The Harris/Potrero Fire, the one Scithius is near is also spreading south towards the Mexico border, out east in the mountains near its source at Potrero... i'ts spreading east and north.. slowly but spreading .
The Gov is here, FEMA chief, Homeland Security Secy, the Prez arrives tomorrow.
1000+ homes across the County gone... and that's just the official guess
We're being asked not water lawns, wash vehicles..ie: restrict water use. Too much water use reduces water presure.... some fire trucks as pumpers hook up to a fire hydrant and suck water out of the piping. If the pressure is low they sometimes suck air. Lots of trucks sucking water... Already reports of trucks losing water pressure and volume partly because well intentioned folk left hoses on, on their roof tops etc. When they do that they leave an open line to air when pumpers start drawing water from the hydrant system. A problem in older neighborhoods.
More later!
Hibernicus
LEGIO IX HISPANA, USA
You cannot dig ditches in a toga!
[url:194jujcw]http://www.legio-ix-hispana.org[/url]
A nationwide club with chapters across N America
LEGIO IX HISPANA, USA
You cannot dig ditches in a toga!
[url:194jujcw]http://www.legio-ix-hispana.org[/url]
A nationwide club with chapters across N America
