8 separate and distinct fires west of the I-15. Casa Totus is to the East, were fine for now. Just watched the DC-10 make an airdrop on my old neighborhood.
San Marcos fire (Washingtonian fire according to CalFire) is the major fire at the present time. A lot of friends have already evacuated.
Hope they can get that situation out there, always had a special place in my heart for SD, lived in North Park, then Pacific Beach, Mission Bay Grad.
Full moon, choppers have permission for night ops, wind advisory canceled at 8pm. Will have 22 military birds up tomorrow AM, we finally learned from 2003 and 2007 (Witch and Cedar fires).
The Air Fire Station here at Fox Field, has depleted their Fire Planes, all headed your way. 12 Aircraft in all, are on constant alert here, yet took off early around noon, and have not come back. They usually re-fuel with retardant further south, when Diego has its fires. Fires further north (this way), result in round the clock Air Craft flying in and out all night long. What I expected to be a long night has turned out to be a quiet one. It blows my mind, that L.A. County & the State, have leased Quebec's state of the art water tankers, which do a fly by on the waters of Castaic, without so much as throttling down, while filling up with 150,000 gallons of water, sucked up full, in but a 2 minute window, of non-stop water skidding....what blows my mind, is the state could of bought a fleet of those state of the art, Bomadier Aircraft, by the 20 years the state has been leasing them during fire season. Those pumps are one of a kind, able to suck up more water per minute, than a city block uses in a day or week. WTF? this state should of invested in Bombadier. Best of luck down there Tom. You can always launch a backfire, using a rocket barrage....but I know you've thought of that Tom...
Good stuff Rob. I can see the San Marcos fire glow and occasional flames shooting up from my 2nd floor....about 7-8 miles as the crow flies. We did have a small 1 acre brush fire in Escondido about a mile away, but it got knocked down quickly. Steph did run the pre-evac drill here as a precaution. First time in the house, good practice. My theory, given the close proximity to highways and the single digit humidity and high 90s temps are the fires are vehicle or motorist (smokers) related. They know the Carlsbad fire was a truck the caught fire. Some others are thought to have been someone carelessly tossing butt out the car window.
Santa Ana conditions or Red Flag conditions where high pressure builds behind the desert to the east of SoCal coupled with low pressure off shore. Its a back flow effect, hot dry winds blow east to west. Winds have died down today, gusts of 5 mph....better than the 50 mph the last 2 days. Humidity at my location up from 7% to 14%. But were expecting 105 today....its a dry heat, lol! Now you know why they put moisturizer in sun block.
Someone had to be real pissed off to toss another's ass out the window.... ' wait a minute, you mean a cigarette butt....! Oye...!
First day in 2 weeks we have NOT had 50 mph winds this week. Up here in the Desert, we had 5 days of 50-78 mph winds. And they say we don't get hurricanes in California. Watched more than One Semi-Truck and Trailer blow over on the 14 Freeway, and Hwy 138 (2 clear miles north of me).... Not a good week to be without your own wings, and jet pack...., Batman...!
It's summer (almost) after 3 years of drought enough to make the devil beg for a drink, let the games begin....! Let's not and say we did...!
My Son has been saying since he was in Elementary School...."I hate the desert, everything just comes here to die"......(8 year old innocent kid-comment).
Scary... didn't know you were in the San Diego area... I spent a summer out there... lived on Mission Beach for the summer and have also been to La Jolla for work a couple of times.
Ah, LaJolla and Mission Viejo, two of my favorite cities on earth...! Anyone know who the Comic Artists and Writer Jim Lee is? Jim's comic book company-Wildstorm, a subsidiary of DC Comics, is located in LaJolla. Jim was appointed Vice President of DC Comics, when he merged his Wildstorm with DC Comics. Until a few years ago, Jim worked from Monday early, (long hour days and nights), until Thurdays Night. Jim jumped on a Private Cessna Citation (the nicest fastest Supersonic Private Jet, with Rolls Royce powerful yet quiet jet engines), then jumped aboard a waiting Concorde to commute back and forth to Milan, Italy, where he would spend his weekends, including Fridays, with his family in picturesque Italian Countryside aka Heaven. I have never heard of any person commuting from Italy to LaJolla, or across any ocean for that matter. Incredible, yet Jim Lee has always been one incredible 1 of a kind genius...!!! FYI...
