SD Firestorm 2007 Update
Oct. 23rd, 2007 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfgroveSorry I haven't updated today.
San Diego County is still burning. Obviously.
No work again today. Rancho Bernardo is still officially evac'd. It looks like they may re-open RB, but we'v been told it looks like a war zone up there. So even when they open it to residents, I'm not sure when people who work there will be allowed back. Word from the Noon press conference is, RB still has leaking gas lines and dangerous and downed power lines, trees in the road, and sporadic spot fires.
A few areas are starting allow residents back in as of Noon today, but officials are saying it'll be 24 hours before any new areas will allow residents to return.
I called work this morning on the security line and got a human being. I don't know what that means. I think we can't leave the compound un-maned just because we are a secure facility, but I guess that means work is still standing. I now have my time reporting code and a BAE Hotline to call from time to time in order to see if I should try to go in. It's supposed to update at 3pm PST, but based on the news, situation won't have changed from the 9am update.
Hrmmm. Ah well I s'ppose that's that.
Some places appear to be getting better, some worse. Ramona is apparently about t run out of water and the fire is heading back that way. The two fires up directly North of me, the Witch Fire and the one hat started on the Palomar(?) Indian Reservation are moving towards each other and will combine in a valley up there somewhere before the day's over.
There are now an estimated 500,000 people who have been evacuated from their homes in San Diego County. That's 10 times the number of people in the Cedar Fire of 2003.
San Diego County is still burning. Obviously.
No work again today. Rancho Bernardo is still officially evac'd. It looks like they may re-open RB, but we'v been told it looks like a war zone up there. So even when they open it to residents, I'm not sure when people who work there will be allowed back. Word from the Noon press conference is, RB still has leaking gas lines and dangerous and downed power lines, trees in the road, and sporadic spot fires.
A few areas are starting allow residents back in as of Noon today, but officials are saying it'll be 24 hours before any new areas will allow residents to return.
I called work this morning on the security line and got a human being. I don't know what that means. I think we can't leave the compound un-maned just because we are a secure facility, but I guess that means work is still standing. I now have my time reporting code and a BAE Hotline to call from time to time in order to see if I should try to go in. It's supposed to update at 3pm PST, but based on the news, situation won't have changed from the 9am update.
Hrmmm. Ah well I s'ppose that's that.
Some places appear to be getting better, some worse. Ramona is apparently about t run out of water and the fire is heading back that way. The two fires up directly North of me, the Witch Fire and the one hat started on the Palomar(?) Indian Reservation are moving towards each other and will combine in a valley up there somewhere before the day's over.
There are now an estimated 500,000 people who have been evacuated from their homes in San Diego County. That's 10 times the number of people in the Cedar Fire of 2003.
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Date: 2007-10-30 04:51 am (UTC)Thanks for worrying about me. :)
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Date: 2007-10-24 06:49 am (UTC)One of Lisa's friends works for the Zoo out there and we heard from her it was in a bad spot. Not sure if it survived at all. Glad you're okay for now, hope everything calms down soon.
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Date: 2007-10-30 04:52 am (UTC)