As more fires burn out of control I’m hoping all the C C families are safe. I think @lilmom and @takeitallin might be near the southern Ca fires. Stay safe. My future son in law thinks his grandparents home has burned in the Paradise Fire.
Hope Ca gets some rain soon. Enough to green our hills but not so much that it triggers mudslides.
This is terrible. We drove through Santa Rosa right after their fires. I cried when I saw the devastation. If I could send our rain that way to extinguish the blazes. To the folks in the line of fire: if you are told to run, run. No, sprint!!! No family heirlooms are worth more than your life.
A co-worker told me today that her son had just graduated from the police academy and hired by the sheriff’s department. He has been sent to fight the fires, even though he is not a trained fire fighter. The fire departments are spread thin and need all of the help they can get.
We are among the 200,000 evacuees. A horrific situation. Still no word on how this fire started.
@TatinG - stay safe.
So sorry, @TatingG !I hope they get this under control soon. thinking of all the folks in distress out your way. <3
The stories coming out of these are terrifying. And now the administration is threatening to pull federal funding to fight them. 
That’s bad. I don’t think it’s doable. I hope not.
Yes, it’s foolishness, @intparent .
TatinG, so sorry for you and all those displaced. Best wishes.
@TatinG, sending good thoughts that you’ll soon be able to return to an undamaged home.
@TatinG, glad to hear you safely evacuated and hoping your home is not affected.
My daughter texted me yesterday from her university in southern CA but far from any fires. Her roommate’s family was evacuated yesterday morning so she was an emotional wreck. She ended up leaving while my daughter was in class to drive up to where her family is now staying. I was scouring news reports this morning and unfortunately from what I have been able to read about her neighborhood, as well as looking at the fire maps, I’m not optimistic her home will survive. Her street was mentioned in one article as having homes on fire.
I haven’t had any updates from my daughter yet today but I’m sure her roommate’s family probably doesn’t know much since they can’t back to the area yet.
All I have to say is during a time of crisis if you are in a leadership position you should try to show compassion and kindness to the people facing devastation and not criticize that State just because they didn’t vote you into office.
To my friends and neighbors in both northern and southern CA, we wish you the best during these horrible firestorms and know that you nor the State government didn’t cause these fires.
@TatinG glad to hear you are safe. I hope your home remains. I have been evacuated in the past and have multiple friends who have had multiple evacuations in the past few years. It is an emotional roller coaster. Please take care of yourself.
I just read the tweet and all I can say is WOW. Releasing all the water in the rivers and streams wouldn’t have made our parched brown hillsides green. We need rain. We need to acknowledge climate change is real and research and makes what changes we can.
My daughter attends a junior college not too far from where the Paradise fire is burning. Her town did not have power on Friday and she was texting me that she was thinking of going with a friend to her house for the weekend. However, the friend didn’t have enough gas and all of the gas stations in town were closed. Also with everyone texting and calling her she had limited battery on her phone, and again no power. I was a wreck thinking of how she was supposed to evacuate without gas. Finally, an aunt that lives about an 1.5 hours from her went to pick her and her friend up. So scary.
Of all the things I thought of to pack for my daughter when she was going away to school, I never thought a gas can would be one of them. She lives off campus in an apartment and I’ll be sending her back to school with a 5 gallon gas can.
Sorry, first thing I’d get a kid is an auxiliary lipstick size cell battery charger. Or multiples. Or explore other sorts. Maybe train her not to run low on gas.
A gas can wouldn’t be the last thing. It wouldn’t even be on my list. Plus it’s a huge fire hazard if stored improperly and sometimes can invalidate a lease.
S at Stanford reports quite a bit of smoke. “Smells like you’re sitting at a camp fire 24x7.”
Pepperdine is safe for now. They chose not to evacuate, rather clustered their students on campus. Campus is a staging area for firefighters so I guess that’s why the decision was made. They’ve now lifted the shelter in place.
I read an article saying a power plant’s transmission was blown 15’ before the fire broke out. Really could not imagine the panic and devastation when trying to flee on a gridlocked road with fires coming from three sides!
If hoping for the dry wind to stop is not guaranteed, hoping for federal government supports should be a given!
D at Stanford reported that her apartment was hot this morning but the presence of smoke discouraged her from opening the windows.
Because I grew up in the midwest with cold winters and worked midnight shift with a longer drive, my dad instilled in me the practice of filling up gas tank at a half full/empty and decades later, I still do it every time. Now in California, it is certainly out of habit, but I also do it in case of earthquakes, fires, or an accident over the Grapevine - anything that could have you in your car for hours. My husband thinks I am silly but it drives me nuts when I take “his” car and it is almost empty. Funny how things stick with you.
We are on acreage in the Bay Area and even though I never use my dog carriers, logic and Martha Stewart would say to stuff them in garage under other crap, but I have them in place where I can get to them quickly around the side of the house. Doesn’t look great, but they are ready at all times. Not trying to say I am so smart, just things one has to think about depending on where you live.