Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 4:55PM San Diego Fires
I’ve been hearing from a lot of people wondering about how I and family/friends are doing with the “Great 2007 San Diego Firestorm” (I just made that up), so thought I’d throw something up here.
Our neighborhood had to evacuate (we were among the 500,000+ that have evacuated thusfar), we were threatened by the Witch fire (which had clamed about 200,000 acres and was only partially contained when I wrote this) as we’re adjacent to Rancho Santa Fe. My wife and I were out of town on a family emergency while this was going on, our daughter went with close friends, and our son was off at school. It was a strange and somber experience talking my daughter through what to do in what may have been the last time someone was in the house (what papers to get, go through with a camcorder looking in closets and drawers, what photos to grab).
My daughter got back in after a couple of days later, and our area was fine. I’m hearing from neighbors though about “marble-sized embers” in their yards, which means it may have been a very close call indeed.
I know everyone’s probably seen videos and photos from this disaster, but thought I’d pass this one on. This is a map of San Diego county put together by local TV station KPBS. It *really* lets you see the extent of this horrific disaster. The percentage of the county and sheer size of the area affected is staggering.
This map is being updated regularly (at the time I wrote this), and is the most informative fire map I’ve seen so far. It shows which evac centers are at capacity, where volunteers are needed, etc.
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