This is not the kind of map I like to make. Today the San Diego County published a list of homes in Rancho Berndardo that were lost on Monday as the Witch Creek Fire, pushed by 50 MPH gusts, burned through the “Lake Hodges Funnel”. This map shows a grim picture: Whole streets, whole neighborhoods […]
Our web-hosting firm, without any prior notice, turned off our web site at around 11:00 am PDT on Tuesday morning. I found out about 20 minutes later that is was due to bandwidth issues; we had had about 35,000 hits since Monday morning, and we had about 1,400 people on line simultaneously at the time […]
While we wait for our site to come back up, I took a look at Matt Drudge’s page for the first time since Saturday. I saw this amazing piece of information: Civility Reigns at San Diego Stadium SAN DIEGO (AP) – Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted […]
This scrap of information was harvested from the comments section on the San Diego Union Tribune site: ” I just got back from a drive through part of east Fallbrook – with a police escort. It is surreal. Mission Road from the freeway to past Meagan’s bluff is on fire on both sides. Live Oak […]
Horse evacuation from the previous “safe spot” is now underway. There were several hundred horses at this location and adjacent. It was north of Mt. Israel road and the Elfin Forrest area on the North side of Lake Hodges. As reported earlier a offshoot that was part of the Witch Creek Fire began advancing early […]
Word has come down that where we stashed the horse is now under evacuation. Before we leave to move him to (safety?) I wanted to post a note on it. He is being moved because of the resurgent burning at the north side of Lake Hodges, near Del Dios. This area did not burn yesterday, […]
A mandatory evacuation order has been issued for Fairbanks Ranch: Reverse 9-1-1 calls are going out to issue mandatory evacuation orders to 1,197 Fairbanks Ranch households, city officials said. Residents can take shelter in the Encinitas Senior Center at 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive and Carlsbad High School at 3557 Lancer Way. My daughter Jacqui (as […]
Word from the north is that the main part of Fallbrook was spared from the Rice Canyon fire. The area is still under threat, but according to a report on local news the vast majority of Fallbrook proper was not burned as some had feared. From the Fallbrook Village News ” UPDATE (8:58 am) With […]
UPDATED 10/23/07 – 1831 PDT: This evacuation has been canceled. There is a mandatory evacuation in effect for parts of Del Mar west of Interstate 5: Here are the actual details: A mandatory evacuation order remains for all areas of Crest Road, and San Dieguito Drive, Oribia Road, Avenida Primavera along Crest Road, Serpentine Drive, […]
The Harris Fire in southeast San Diego County is making the residents there increasingly nervous. As you can see from this updated (0530 today) map, the fire has moved beyond the evacuation area and is following Hwy 94 right up into Spring Valley: My sister, Jacque Hoffman, and her son Devon went up to the […]
