Oh Sh*t - do I save the fish first? Maybe the Harley - no no my guns - or perhaps the Crossfire... What about my Jazz collection?... How come that song by the Doors "LA Woman" keeps playing in my head?

"Your hills are filled fire... If they say I never loved you... You know they are a lair..."






Is this the sun or the moon?

 

Load up the guns and all that jazz into the Crossfire and call a friend to ride out the Harley and hit the road and drive like hell.

All kidding aside, I wish you the best and hope you avoid loss. It is the top news story here in Chicago on our local news and the fires and wind look terrible. Keep us posted please if you are able to. Gary

 

I wish you the best with this man. Hopefully you, and your things, will emerge unscathed.

 

There's hardly anything scarier than a big wildfire. Hope it misses you and that all is well. Based on your photos, the old "hose on the roof" defense may not be helpful. A shift in the wind to take it all away would be wonderful...

 

WOW! Wish you the best!

 

Load up the XFire and Godspeed!

 

I'm at Pepperdine University, we were evacuated to central campus, and watched as the flames creeped down the ridge to campus...pretty scary stuff, but no structures burned on campus.

My Crossfire got hit HARD with soot and ash, any advice on cleaning it off without a hose, or car soap??

 

~ use a leaf blower.

 

I hope it all works out for you and you stay safe. SoCal is burning all over the place tonight but fortunately the closest fire to us is about 10 miles away and moving the opposite direction. For now.

Back in '93 during the Laguna Beach fire I was living on the extreme SW end of Irvine, down by UCI, and when the wind shifted (after the fire consumed some 400 homes in Laguna Beach) the fire raced up through the Irvine Ranch area and the fire dept. started setting back burns across the street from my house. We were evacuated and when I got back in the morning all I could see from the back yard was a torched hillside - far as the eye could see. The house was perfectly fine.

Those firefighters...man, I hardly know how to express my awe at these guys. Just amazing. Hopefully your experience through this is similar to mine back then.

 

Good luck to you. We all hope everything turns out well for you.

 

Good luck! I saw the fires in northern CA and AZ. Not a pretty site. Hope everything works out for you and you stay safe.

 

Great slide show in the NY Times but your shots seem more real. Still no place on earth like it.

 

Goood...San Diego AND Malibu have fires...the two places where I live.

 

My wife flew out there for business on sunday. All the people at the job there are evacuating their homes. She is flying back home tonight and will go back when the fires are out. She is flying out of la. instead of San Diego.

 

So do Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura Counties. More and more are popping up all the time and fire fighting resources are stretched beyond the limit. In some areas the winds are so severe that neither fixed wing nor helicopter water dropping aircraft can be utilized. Near Lake Arrowhead today there are whole neighborhoods burning to the ground. I'm one of the lucky ones - the Orange County fire may only be about 7 ~ 8 miles away from me, but it's moving in the opposite direction.

 

Thanks to everyone for the well wishes.

I have great neighbors who keep up on the brush removal plus I live in a 1930 farmhouse made of brick with a clay roof with 20 acres of avocados behind me.

Don't let the media fool you - it's not the drought that brings the fires. In So CA the brush dies every summer and is ready to burn.

It's the very wet winter we had two years ago that makes the brush grow so big. Then it's the winds that fans the fires - we had several this year and this wind storm is real strong and just won't die down.

Lots of smoke - the house smells like a camp fire and lots of ash and branches littered about, but it will all sweep/wash up.

But living my entire life (47 years) in California, Fires, Floods, Earthquakes, Huge Surf, Riots, Michael Jackson, OJ, Brittney Spears - hey - ya just take all in stride!

 

just heard on the radio that 500 homes in san diego have been destroyed, and they are evacuating 100,000 people. sounds like its getting nuts down there.

 

Good to hear you came out unscathed - now get back to work on that SRT so we can mimic your mods.

 

looks like SD just lost 1,000 homes. wow this is bad!

 

unf-ing believable.