In article 2017101019142580108-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, Savageduck says...

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On 2017-10-10 14:40:03 +0000, Miloch said:

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I live along the border of Sonoma and Marin County...I actually had a
light layer of ash on my car this morning...the sun was orange when it
came up because of all the smoke.

During my high school senior year in Santa Ana (1970) there was a big fire
near Corona, about twenty miles away. The smoke cloud blotted out the sun
and it cast a weird dark orange light on everything. It got so dark that the
school principal announced over the PA system, "We are NOT having an eclipse
of the sun!" When we got out of class that afternoon, everything was covered
in ashes...


It's still raging...not contained yet. Hilton Hotel in Santa Rosa gone along
with 1500 homes/building burned.

We almost always have fires every year with Cal Fire aircraft flying overhead.

Winds much calmer than yesterday & humidity up.

I live in the hills about 13 miles west of Paso Robles in San Luis
Obispo County, and last year we had to deal with the "Chimney Fire".
That burned for weeks, and when it was closest to my home the air
quality was so bad, going outdoors not a sane option. Visibility was
very limited, and if we had to evacuate the traffic on our access roads
would have been chaotic. All I can say is I am thankful that those
firefighters persevered in very tough conditions.
http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1389
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_Fire



One of my sisters lost her house in Cobb CA to the Middletown fire in 2015.
Took the insurance money and bought another house in Santa Rosa...and
yup...these fires are only blocks away.

Before the fires started, she and her husband took off for a two week vacation
in Hawaii thinking now was ideal...what the hell could possibly happen?

We've got family members/friends trying to see if the house is still standing
but the police won't allow anyone in the burn areas because of hot spots and gas
lines still burning.

I've seen TV reporters on camera from her street but it's hard to tell if her
house is part of the absolute destruction of that street. We think it might
still be standing.





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