Fires in San Diego

I'm safe, I'm not even in an evacuation area, though it's one of the few in the county.

A friend of mine has a much better update here. I did have trouble finding gas but I'm all filled up and even found a mask when I went out earlier.

If you go to the Google Map, which isn't quite up to date, I'm just north of Miramar base in the big white area that isn't in danger.

It looks like the third circle of hell here, though the sky was actually worse in 03. We're a federal disaster area finally and the Governor is around somewhere. He was bitching out the federal government yesterday and got on TV telling everyone that yes, Malibu was bad, we're all sad the castle burned, but San Diego is in real trouble. We're just not as sexy as a castle burning to the ground.

They got the planes etc in the air today, that will help significantly. Hopefully the winds will cooperate and let us fight these fires.

San Diego has really come together helping people who need it. Every time they make a plea on the local news for help they come back a bit later saying that the response was overwhelming and they're good. It's nice to see the community taking care of each other.

Lots of animal care also, they really took to heart the issues in the past with people not leaving due to not being able to take their pets. Lots of places are set up for animals, everything from gerbils and snakes to horses.

FEMA is on their way and the whole National Guard (well those in the states atm) are coming also. Maybe something was learned from the clusterfuck that was Katrina.


edit: http://twitter.com/kpbsnews

good updates