> FYI for the rest of you.
>
> Updated map (by LA Times):
http://tinyurl.com/325jz2
>
> - Sai
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>
> Date: Oct 23, 2007 4:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [BoD] Fires in California--off topic
> To: LCS Board of Directors <bod@...>
>
>
> For those not in the area, let me try to give you an update on
> what's going on.
>
> I myself live in Orange County--specifically, in west Orange
> County. In Southern California, LA County is in the north;
> San Diego County is in the south; Orange County is right in
> between the two.
>
> If these maps that I've found are accurate, it looks like Orange
> County, for the time being, is safe. This isn't to say that we
> haven't been having problems. The winds--especially two days
> ago--were, in places, up near 50 mph, and it was dry and hot.
> The wind caused damage to some of my students' homes
> (classes aren't cancelled, by any means, but especially those
> students who commute and live in north or northeast Orange
> County, which is where I teach, are keeping an eye on things.
> Several were absent yesterday to help out relatives). The fires
> in Malibu (no idea if this is current) look something like this:
>
>
http://hitsusa.com/blog/210/malibu-fire-update/
>
> It's in north and eastern LA County; right in the middle
> where there are no fires is LA city, Hollywood, etc.
>
> Down south, the picture looks like this:
>
>
http://hitsusa.com/blog/215/san-diego-fires/
>
> If you look at the picture, you'll see the 5 freeway on the
> left traveling south to an upside-down V shape. That's La
> Jolla, where UCSD is. The evacuation are is north of the
> 56--looks like Oceanside, though the scale of the map is hard
> to tell. This doesn't affect San Diego proper, for the most
> part, but the northern areas of San Diego County, right
> up against the southern-most parts of Orange County.
>
> This map concerns me:
>
>
http://hitsusa.com/blog/219/california-fires-map/
>
> The area around Long Beach is where I live--as you can see, it's
> fire-free. Corona is at the end of the freeway I take to work,
> about an hour and a half east of where I live. There's a long
> stretch of nothing between here and there, but it itself is a populous
> area. In between Laguna Niguel and San Diego are a lot of
> newer communities--large developments that used to be
> nothing but wilderness. At present, it doesn't look good (in
> fact, I didn't know the fires were that bad in the south... A
> friend of mine's mother lives near Laguna Niguel; I'd better
> call him). Several years ago when the fires were bad in San
> Diego, it was that area near El Cajon and the 8 freeway that
> was where it all started. Hopefully there's enough manpower
> to keep it under control; if not, it could potentially spread to
> downtown San Diego, albeit very slowly. Last time, the
> firefighters were able to get it under control before it got to
> the very populous areas.
>
> As for myself, this is the second time I've seen bad fires. The
> time in San Diego several years back was much worse, because
> of where I was living. At present, the sky where I live is orange
> and filled with smoke, but other than that, life is going on as
> usual. None of the schools in the area have been closed, and
> other than power outages, the area around Long Beach has
> been pretty quiet--especially now that the winds have died
> down. I don't foresee anything terrible happening to this
> area, but, of course, I'm greatly concerned about the areas
> near the fires--especially Pepperdine University, right in Malibu,
> where my mother is attending a Master's program (not presently,
> of course; classes have been cancelled). If you wanted to stay
> updated, I'd say that Google map is a good one to look at.
>
> As for Northern California, I can't speak for the Bay Area, but
> in the center of the state, the weather, apparently, is gorgeous:
> not dry, not humid, 70 degrees, plenty of sunshine (which is
> good, since the relatives I have that live up there are in an
> area prone to brushfires). Let's keep hoping.
>
> -David
> *******************************************************************
> "A male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."
> "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
>
> -Jim Morrison
>
>
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>
> On Oct 23, 2007, at 4∞28 PM, Sally Caves wrote:
>
> > Especially concerned about our San Diego and LA friends-- I think
> > David P. has relocated, I but I'm not sure. I can't remember where
> > some of the rest of you are; mostly in the Bay Area? Sylvia
> > Sotomayor is in Claremont, I don't think that's threatened, but my
> > cousins live in San Diego.
> >
> > Sally
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