Question Evacuation!

Not yet, but I'm packed to go!
The Carr fire is trying to eliminate my home town.
Here is an incident map...

Eep! Oh my gosh!

Hope you're okay! Keep safe!

Safe so far. Spent part of the AM making lunches for fire fighters...

I'm still here, my apartment is still here, and the sheriff hasn't said I have to leave... So after spending 11 1/2 hrs working I'm back home for a while.

From a person who has lost property to massive fire, I wish you good luck. Let's hope your apartment doesn't burn like mine did...except in your case, it would result in there being nothing to rebuild. In my case...let's just say that my apartment is looking like it will be relivable within the next six to eight months. The builders have nearly removed all the plaster, and they've already finished replacing the damaged support strut. It was quickly achieved, thanks to the efforts of Foster's construction. Central park was very helpful. They reallocated resources from the construction work going on nearby to help fix the building. Not just for me, but because the support strut was evaluated for damage, and if it collapsed it could have bought down the roof of my apartment, and the ones two floors above it.

But that's enough about me. Actually, there's a fire about six or seven blocks from my damaged apartment. I'm not there, but apparently it's visible from my roommate's lodgings in a nearby student accomodation building. Smoke billowing, sirens screaming, the works. Seems there's a lot of fire lately. This isn't that fire tornado that's recently cropped up, is it??? If so, run screaming even if it's nowhere near. We had one of those in the ACT years back. It melted through even fireproof houses, and took out a large chunk of the Canberra suburbs. At least I think it was Canberra...maybe it was Melbourne...Anyway, it was a massive blow to the Aussie economy. It was also a big blow to the house owners whose properties were caught in the blaze.

Let's hope you and your apartment get out of this safe and sound!!!

If US bushfires are as bad as Australian (and the news seems to imply this one is) please remember the golden rule of bushfires.

Unless your place has been specially prepared for bushfires (trees cut down, gutters cleaned and filled with water, wide open lawns with sprinklers on them all around the house, plenty of non-mains water with emergency pumps ready to spray water all around to protect the house) pack up and leave early and get well clear of the danger zone before the fire gets anywhere near.

Most deaths are people panicking and getting caught in cars and the like trying to leave too late and the fires surround them as they are trying to escape.

If you can’t leave early get to the best shelter you can and wait out the fire, even if necessary staying in a burning house until the fire passes and you can run onto the burnt land it’s already passed through.

Bushfires are scary, I’m glad the only two I was close to were small ones.

Agreed. Fire has a way of spreading so chaotically, so fast, that by the time you know you need to flee, it might already be too late. Or you might have hours, even days. A shift in the wind, jumping a firebreak...

Be safe.

It still amazes me that these fires burn houses completely to the ground, turn cars to deformed metal frames and nothing but ash.

I do love that you made lunches for the firefighters.

I'm safe and sound, the nearest the fire got to me was about 3/4 of a mile across the river. Part of what made this fire so bad was this: Firenado!

Anne wrote: I'm safe and sound, the nearest the fire got to me was about 3/4 of a mile across the river. Part of what made this fire so bad was this: Firenado!

And next week on SyFy, Sharkfirenado.

Just remember, you can thank Smokey Bear for this, the fuzzy fink

The problem is nature intended all that stuff to burn every few years. And humans instead settle there and keep it from burning so by the time it does get to go up it's insane. In parts of NC the fire departments light brush fires every other year and burn around 3-4 hundred acres at a time inward to keep this problem from happening. I have family with the fire depts in the areas that's the only reason I know. It helps keep alot of that from happening. Perhaps they can start trying the same there?

Not likely given the religion of the current administration in Sac town.

Yeah that seems to be a big problem all through Cali. Had a friend have to go to San Fran on business and he said the whole city is run down and filthy. Cause they spend to much trying to make people happy rather than taking care of what needs to be taken care of. His company is planning on pulling out of Cali as a whole due to crazy high taxes and such. So he had to go do audits. Idk how he does it the man is a paperwork machine. I think the more paperwork he does the happier he gets. *shudders*

Yeah jobs leaving Cali is a real concern. I had a decent job. Not a good job. But a decent job with regular hours that wasn't too hard. I even stayed long enough that my utter lack of abilities and skills was mitigate to a degree. IOW I stayed long enough to move from chief floor sweeper to actually doing part of the QA for a company. Mostly because they were chronically short of people who would stay past the chief floor sweeper portion of the job... Okay not really chief floor sweeper, but as repetitive as being a dish washer or the like...
Anyway, the business sold and the physical assets the new company wanted transferred elsewhere... Not even distant cousins there so decided not to try to get on with the new owners... Besides except for the current fire storm, I like where I live a lot!! So now due to decisions on my part I'm experiencing the exciting opportunity of being single and in poverty.

Yeah well you can't give all the people not paying taxes free this and that and expect to be able to take care of your state. Or for that matter not tax your actual taxpayers into the ground. From what I have heard Cali is almost a failed state as whole. I am active politically where I live and heard from both my senator and house rep there is talk going around of them making Cali a protectorate like Guam so the Fed can step in and try to fix things. My reps are against it cause government messed it up more government won't fix it. They just see it as a waste of more tax dollars. >.<

But yeah Cali is in for a hard time. As all the business and people that can flee the state. Good luck to you guys out there.

The general problem with migration of people from a "ruined" place to another is that they tend to bring along whatever policies and stuff that was implemented that led to the decline (be it more socialist or more preference for a 'strong' leader - aka dictator). Things get bad, people flee, but they forget the whole concept of cause and effect, and they vote for policies that will turn their new haven into what they had to flee.

Political policies, when they get bad enough to cause flight, are like a metastatic cancer - they move elsewhere and cause new tumors of political and social dysfunction. (And note - this is NOT a screed against any one side. Don't make it so. It's a note about political tendencies of migrants in general.)

Your exactly right. Look at Venezuela that country has utterly failed which is sad. A large portion of the illegal border crossings are people fleeing from there and then they want to vote here and put in the same things in place here that made that state fail.