Fire, again
San Diego is burning again. I moved here just a couple of months before the Cedar (and other) fire(s), which started almost four years ago today. Today we have two major fires, and already they are saying it may be worse than 2003.
Because of technical problems, I can’t uploads images to this blog, but I have them at the following links:
Sunset facing west
Sunset facing west 2
Sunset facing northwest
Sunset facing east
These are all taken from our back yard. The fires are south near the 94 and Dulzura and north near a place called Witch Creek, on the 78 not far from Ramona. We’re about 30 miles from either of these places, but there is smoke in the air here and ash falling. Because of the Santa Ana winds, the smoke (etc.) blows west, so we get the residue and the oddly-colored skies.
They’re running a crawl right now over 60 Minutes. The southern fire is now at 14000 acres and the northern is at 5000. It’s 7:50pm PDT. Tomorrow the Santa Anas are supposed to be worse. Right now, it’s 71º, 9% relative humidity, and the dew point is 9º here. Make that 7% in Ramona near the fire. The winds are down some all over, only 20mph with gusts to 40 mph now in the calm of the evening in the fire area, but tomorrow they’ll blow hard again.
Our air is officially unhealthy, here, because of all the ash and smoke. Santa Anas by themselves make my skin feel like it’s being peeled off and my eyes burn and I get a weird hacking cough. The crappy air doesn’t help. I feel sorry for all the poor folk and elderly who may be unhealthy already, having to live with this stuff. And the animals and people dying in these fires.
Think good thoughts for their suffering. It’s going to be a long week of the winds and fire.