Any complaints about the "fascists" evacuating people in Ventura County?

[jberryhill]

Or is there an exception for dangerous circumstances not of human origin?

[elleng]

1. nadin just wrote:

'No local evacs, no EOC activation, so all we did was listen to the damn scanner all day.'

[Bluenorthwest]

2. She is far from Ventura County....

nt

[elleng]

4. Thanks.

Don't know Cal geography!

[jberryhill]

10. Thank God you arrived

This thread was in danger of not having a breaking situation report from Nadin.

You saved the day.

[elleng]

11. HA! You're late.

[jberryhill]

16. Damn

And with Meta gone, I can't even catch the highlights.

[olddots]

3. It's 5:44

sirens blaring and the smoke gets thicker 25 miles south east ...there is a difference between what happened in Boston and the millions of people who choose to live in what the native Americans called the Valley Of yellow Air


we are past due for a quake and this fire will be bad because it might be on several fronts in a very dry part of the country.

[kestrel91316]

8. Camarillo and the Springs Fire aren't in the Valley of Yellow Air,

I don't think. That would probably be us here in the San Fernando Valley. Though it's not yellow right now - it's gray. And suffocating.

Winds out of the SW are blowing all that smoke right to my apartment.

[PlanetBev]

13. Hey Kestrel

We've exchanged notes before. I used to be a 91316 gal. I rode out the '94 quake on Killion Street. I live in Westlake Village now. I couldn't wait to get indoors tonight. The smoke and ash is awful around here.

[kestrel91316]

20. Yeah, you guys must REALLY be miserable. We've got that mess in

Glendale going on now also, but I don't think it will spread too far. Air is just PUTRID tonight. Migraine is raging.

[malaise]

22. Stay safe

[kestrel91316]

24. Fortunately the only fire risk in my immediate area is from other apartment buildings -

no brush within at least a mile, and that is all to the south so anytime the Santa Anas blow, the fires just head farther south. Once the winds reverse and blow to the north, it's off the ocean and much cooler and moister and the fires lay down.

[Hekate]

12. Camarillo is in Ventura County, to the north of L.A. and down the Conejo Grade

When driving back from SoCal to the Central Coast, the Conejo Grade is my sign that I am coming back to my own "country" even though I still have another hour-plus to get to Goleta. Around Camarillo I will be able to open my car's windows and feel the cool coastal air, and breathe deeply.

Except when there's a fire in the region....

[PlanetBev]

19. I'm up and down the Grade a lot

It does seem like you're going to another world. The Central Coast is so cool...literally and figuratively.

[Fumesucker]

5. You mean taking shelter from something like this?

[jberryhill]

9. What on earth does she have in her hand?

The apocalypse came and she brought along dish detergent?

That looks like it came out of Watchtower or some Mormon publication.

[Fumesucker]

21. It's quite real and it came from the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jan/09/wildfires-australia-pictures

These stunning pictures of five young children and their grandmother huddled together under a jetty in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley were captured by their grandfather Tim Holmes. The family was forced to stay in the water for several hours as homes around them were razed to the ground. The pictures, taken on 4 January have just been released

I would guess the bottle was for drinking water, the river doesn't look very clean.

[Hekate]

14. The label says "Mango" -- could be fruit juice for the kids.

[morningfog]

6. Major fire does not equal one suspect.

[Hekate]

15. Except when it does. We have some arsonists who just love to see it all go up in flames...

They're pretty hard to catch, too.

[villager]

7. Firefighters fighting a fire!? Then who the hell needs the 4th Amendment back!

Your logic, as ever, is impeccable!

[whatchamacallit]

17. Lame

n/t

[jberryhill]

18. Your comment is offensive to the handicapped

[NutmegYankee]

23. Are they going door to door with machine guns?

yeah, didn't think so.