10-24-2007, 06:12 PM
Not Over Yet!
More evacuations from San Diego County, late yesterday, and today.. plus some folks going back home... many businesses closed, asked to stay off freeways, asked to stay home...
The total # of evacuees has reached 500,000 in San Diego COUNTY.. though many thousands have been alowed to return home.. some have had to leave again!
Fires are still burning homes.. spreading into the foothills and mountains... winds in some mountain valleys and canyons are still high... high winds and deep smoke layers make aerial water bombing impossible....
Interstate 5 and Intersate 15, the two main Freeways that go north out of San Diego, have been closed.. as of this writing I-15 is closed off an on and I-5 is just opened both directions! Yay!
Power: San Onofre Nuke plant (in the NW corner of the County) has had to shut down transmission lines due to proximity of fire. Some lines are back online.. We only have one major transmission line coming into the County that's fully operational. Others are down or shut down. Electric generation plants within the County are operating at near peak capacity. At one point last night all external transmission lines were shut down. AH! Just got word that a power line out fo Mexico has been turned on. Yay!
We just received an electricity conservation order.. turn off and don't use non-essential equipment. Expect rolling blackouts and brownouts... ( I better type faster!!!)
Tid-bit of info: there are over 250,000 horse in S Diego County and many many thousands of them have been relocated
25,000 avocado trees are lost! There go guacamole prices!
City of S Diego estimating $1,000,000,000 USD in loss so far. That's just the City!!
1500+ homes so far, and that's ONLY an estimate
Human toll: only two dead as a direct result of the fires...one of burns , one from a fall off of his roof while watering it; some elderly being evac'd from hospitals and elder care facilities havedied; about 14 firefighters with injuries, some burns, two in very very serious condition; about 60 injuries total..... that number is varied and fluctuates.. reporting is difficult..
Since the winds are lessening the fires can spread somewhat evenly in all directions! Yikes! .. and are! Some winds are blowing easterly and that's driving some edges of the fires into areas that were unburned yesterday.
The bigger fires are expected to burn for another week.
Air temps remain generally high
Air quality is extremely dangerous
LEG IX folk.... all throughout Southern California: Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside Counties, remain safe as far as we know.
Our commercial shop in Tecate Mex is safe though the border crossing at Tecate California remains closed
The San Diego LEG IX HQ workshop is closed. Workshops in Orange County and Riverside County are open!
Still haven't heard from G Marius Traianus ... he was in an evac area in Poway. Two others from S Diego have yet to report in.
We remain hopeful
More evacuations from San Diego County, late yesterday, and today.. plus some folks going back home... many businesses closed, asked to stay off freeways, asked to stay home...
The total # of evacuees has reached 500,000 in San Diego COUNTY.. though many thousands have been alowed to return home.. some have had to leave again!
Fires are still burning homes.. spreading into the foothills and mountains... winds in some mountain valleys and canyons are still high... high winds and deep smoke layers make aerial water bombing impossible....
Interstate 5 and Intersate 15, the two main Freeways that go north out of San Diego, have been closed.. as of this writing I-15 is closed off an on and I-5 is just opened both directions! Yay!
Power: San Onofre Nuke plant (in the NW corner of the County) has had to shut down transmission lines due to proximity of fire. Some lines are back online.. We only have one major transmission line coming into the County that's fully operational. Others are down or shut down. Electric generation plants within the County are operating at near peak capacity. At one point last night all external transmission lines were shut down. AH! Just got word that a power line out fo Mexico has been turned on. Yay!
We just received an electricity conservation order.. turn off and don't use non-essential equipment. Expect rolling blackouts and brownouts... ( I better type faster!!!)
Tid-bit of info: there are over 250,000 horse in S Diego County and many many thousands of them have been relocated
25,000 avocado trees are lost! There go guacamole prices!
City of S Diego estimating $1,000,000,000 USD in loss so far. That's just the City!!
1500+ homes so far, and that's ONLY an estimate
Human toll: only two dead as a direct result of the fires...one of burns , one from a fall off of his roof while watering it; some elderly being evac'd from hospitals and elder care facilities havedied; about 14 firefighters with injuries, some burns, two in very very serious condition; about 60 injuries total..... that number is varied and fluctuates.. reporting is difficult..
Since the winds are lessening the fires can spread somewhat evenly in all directions! Yikes! .. and are! Some winds are blowing easterly and that's driving some edges of the fires into areas that were unburned yesterday.
The bigger fires are expected to burn for another week.
Air temps remain generally high
Air quality is extremely dangerous
LEG IX folk.... all throughout Southern California: Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside Counties, remain safe as far as we know.
Our commercial shop in Tecate Mex is safe though the border crossing at Tecate California remains closed
The San Diego LEG IX HQ workshop is closed. Workshops in Orange County and Riverside County are open!
Still haven't heard from G Marius Traianus ... he was in an evac area in Poway. Two others from S Diego have yet to report in.
We remain hopeful
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
