08-21-2020, 12:29 AM
From a letter from a friend near San Fran California:
The fires have gotten worse overnight. They are spreading with 0% containment. There are 40,000 acres burned, up from about 20K yesterday. About 22K people evacuated so far and I just heard that number should double in the next few days. The air quality today is much worse -- no surprise. I'm holding out hope that the fire won't actually come this far. Of course, this is hard to predict. Once fires start jumping from house to house...? I don't know. Normally, we shrouded in fog this time of year, but we have a heat wave. I hear we now have air tankers finally onboard. Up until today, there was too much smoke for planes to fly over the fires. Oh the irony.
And, naturally, we still have to worry about Covid.
The fires have gotten worse overnight. They are spreading with 0% containment. There are 40,000 acres burned, up from about 20K yesterday. About 22K people evacuated so far and I just heard that number should double in the next few days. The air quality today is much worse -- no surprise. I'm holding out hope that the fire won't actually come this far. Of course, this is hard to predict. Once fires start jumping from house to house...? I don't know. Normally, we shrouded in fog this time of year, but we have a heat wave. I hear we now have air tankers finally onboard. Up until today, there was too much smoke for planes to fly over the fires. Oh the irony.
And, naturally, we still have to worry about Covid.