I are evacuated… Dammit

[wave rider]

jdc wrote:
yeah, smoke is awful this morning.

Im the blue dot in the middle -- we are "in a smoke plume" apparently https://fire.airnow.gov/?lat=38.78819632430419&lng=-121.32450733621572&zoom=10#

I was glad that I “just happened to have” some masks laying around…

[sekker]

Ugh - hope you stay safe!

[SteveG]

Friend near Santa Cruz: Doors closed, air conditioners on, masks. Friends around the area evacuated up and down the coast.

[Ca Bob]

Seriously -- at least you got out.

[cbelt3]

Holy Schmoley... Glad you are safe and have a place for your family and fur babies to hunker down. And yeah.. bonus points on the backup scheme !

[wave rider]

Thanks all for your kind wishes. This is the first time I've had to evacuate in the almost 22 years I've rented here.

[Rolando]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
You may know that Santa Barbara is chock full of eucalyptus trees. A friend of mine who lives there told me that during the last big fire they had in SB, the eucalyptus trees were actually exploding.

High oil content? I remember gathering Christmas trees in Jan for bonfires-once that pine oil lit up...

[RgrF]

We once lived in the hillsides surrounding the San Fernando Valley, after our third evacuation we moved to the flats.

[Rick-o]

Stay safe, WR!!

[numbered]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
You may know that Santa Barbara is chock full of eucalyptus trees. A friend of mine who lives there told me that during the last big fire they had in SB, the eucalyptus trees were actually exploding.

Eucalyptus is what caused the devastating Oakland fires in 93 or so. It started a pogrom against them in most public lands in Norcal. Thousands have been taken out in Bay Area open spaces. But there are still many on private property.

The fires in the Big Basin affecting Santa Cruz are redwood land with pines and scrub oaks as an understory.