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mom60 · 07-04-2008, 05:20 PM

Binx- The Music academy is safe. The fire right now is in the foothills above Goleta. They are calling it the Gap fire- The SB county website has been putting up updates with evacuation maps. The main problem is the wind. It can come up and totally change the direction of the fire. Also the hills are very dry and it just takes one spark or some careless person to set off fireworks and start another fire somewhere else in the hills. I would also have confidence in the people running the Music Academy to have a plan. Also they seem to be giving people lots of time to get out. Going on the side of caution. Also they are using reverse 911 so if his housing has a land line they would get the information.
The electricity is a problem for the entire area. The press conference at 2 today asked that everyone conserve electricity all the way down to Carpinteria. The prediction is the power is going to go out and you should be prepared. Binx you might try to reach your son today during the day. The last two days the power went out in the early evening.
I did go get cash today. I also got water. I tried to get a battery operated radio but the stores I tried were sold out. I have heard it is impossible to find one at this point. I took the passports and put them in a place that I can easily grab. I always have plenty of food on hand and a hand operated can opener. I am going to also put all the flashlights in a good place. Hadn't thought about meds and first aid kits. I also am going to get the sleeping bags together in case we have to leave. Next on the list is to think about photo albums.
In the past we have had a family plan for emergencies but we have not updated it. It obviously in our case takes an emergency to remind us that we are unprepared. I did make sure we have full tanks of gas.
We had to leave New Orleans during Katrina while moving our child in and remember how the roads were at a standstill. Our roads will be worse if mass exodus ever needed to occur. Only one highway going south and north.
We are lucky that if we need to leave our home which is in a rural area we have our office which is in the downtown area that we can sleep at.
Any thing I am not thinking of.

07-04-2008, 05:20 PM	#12
mom60 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,107	Binx- The Music academy is safe. The fire right now is in the foothills above Goleta. They are calling it the Gap fire- The SB county website has been putting up updates with evacuation maps. The main problem is the wind. It can come up and totally change the direction of the fire. Also the hills are very dry and it just takes one spark or some careless person to set off fireworks and start another fire somewhere else in the hills. I would also have confidence in the people running the Music Academy to have a plan. Also they seem to be giving people lots of time to get out. Going on the side of caution. Also they are using reverse 911 so if his housing has a land line they would get the information. The electricity is a problem for the entire area. The press conference at 2 today asked that everyone conserve electricity all the way down to Carpinteria. The prediction is the power is going to go out and you should be prepared. Binx you might try to reach your son today during the day. The last two days the power went out in the early evening. I did go get cash today. I also got water. I tried to get a battery operated radio but the stores I tried were sold out. I have heard it is impossible to find one at this point. I took the passports and put them in a place that I can easily grab. I always have plenty of food on hand and a hand operated can opener. I am going to also put all the flashlights in a good place. Hadn't thought about meds and first aid kits. I also am going to get the sleeping bags together in case we have to leave. Next on the list is to think about photo albums. In the past we have had a family plan for emergencies but we have not updated it. It obviously in our case takes an emergency to remind us that we are unprepared. I did make sure we have full tanks of gas. We had to leave New Orleans during Katrina while moving our child in and remember how the roads were at a standstill. Our roads will be worse if mass exodus ever needed to occur. Only one highway going south and north. We are lucky that if we need to leave our home which is in a rural area we have our office which is in the downtown area that we can sleep at. Any thing I am not thinking of.
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