It's Official! California is on Fire!

[Bennyboy]

Huge fires burning all over the state. Santa Clarita, Santa Clara area, Quincy area....Fire Season is just getting going. Gonna be a long one.....

[Bennyboy]

1. Some Video

http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_248074757.html

[Sequoia]

8. Smoke is creeping into Sonoma and Marin Counties.

We got a news alert about it and sure enough I go out at lunch and the sky is a bit brown around the horizon and I could swear I smelled the smoke.

[Auggie]

20. I wondered why it's so hazy in Napa

[Sequoia]

21. Yes, Napa was on the list too.

[lizziegrace]

2. Scary stuff

I can't watch the video at work, but have no idea what it must be like to live out there knowing every year the fires come. :(

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Fires, landslides, riots, floods, frozen citrus crops, Ahnold, the list goes on.

[XemaSab]

7. duh.... you forgot earthquakes

:P

[Bennyboy]

4. It is so smokey in Sacramento today

and we are not even close to any fires. There is a good (BAD) breeze blowing and that cannot be good.

[AlCzervik]

5. it reeks up here, i just went outside and the smell is awful.

we need rain soooooooo much.

[bridgit]

12. yep, we were out in Vacaville earlier windy yeah but smoke is everywhere...

:(

[LeftyMom]

16. It's like the end of the world outside- brownish grey skies and orange sunlight

My eyes are watering like mad and I'm short of breath.

[AlCzervik]

17. and you know between 5 and 7 it's going to get worse.

rain, rain, rain---give us some rain!!!

[BrotherBuzz]

22. Reminds me of the days when we allowed rice straw burning in the valley

My eyes are actually tearing, and I'm usually very tolerant of smoke. But look at the upside, the sun is a most unusual and pleasing shade of orange.

[Initech]

6. It's official - my state is being swallowed into the depths of hell.

Where are those rioting Laker fans when you need them?

[skygazer]

9. Its been so dry this year

All it needs is a spark. :scared:

[Shakespeare]

10. Just wait'll the Santa Anas get going.

Things could get really bad this fall. :scared:

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. We can see the smoke from the Lick Fire

http://origin.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_6806059

And, yeah, that's what it's called, because it's near James Lick Observatory. :P

[Gormy Cuss]

13. You had to use that smiley, didn't ya?

:rofl:

We can't even smell it here thanks to the wind direction.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. I had to, yes

It was most apropos. :)



We can't smell it, either — or, I can't. Wind's takin' it toward Merced, I reckon.

[skygazer]

15. I'm smelling something here

I was wondering if it was the Morgan Hill fire. :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Could be, but

I don't think the wind would carry it that way. :shrug:

[skygazer]

19. I didn't either

A lot depends on where it is, though - as the crow flies (why is it always a crow - do they fly straighter than other birds?), it's not far and pretty much due east. Last time there was a biggun that way, we got visible smoke but it was on the west side of MH and I think this one is on the east. :shrug:

It all sucks, anyway - I hate smelling smoke in the summertime. :scared:

[Ptah]

23. According to wikipedia

Origins

In the past, before technology existed to make the task of
navigation much easier, when lost or unsure of their position
in coastal waters, ships would release a caged crow. The crow
would fly straight towards the nearest land thus giving the
vessel some sort of a navigational fix. The tallest lookout
platform on a ship came to be known as the crow's nest.

[skygazer]

25. Yup, its from Morgan Hill

The Mr. could see the smoke moving over the hills toward our place on his way home.

[Gormy Cuss]

26. The smoke's getting around now.

We had that weird gray smoke sky by late afternoon (not much of a smoke smell though.)Hey, as long as it isn't brown sky --- that's when the air is really nasty.

[warrior1]

24. The sun was bright red this morning

in Sacramento. Hazy all day long. I'm not going for my walk tonight. No fucking way.

[The Straight Story]

27. Pic from yard of the smoke