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| Thread ID: 73622 | 2006-10-26 15:40:00 | Bad Fires Here In San Jacinto Mountains, California | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 494567 | 2006-10-27 13:18:00 | Just seen a news report on your fire on BBC World, Joe. Looks really horrifying. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 494568 | 2006-10-27 13:26:00 | Latest update? | Greg (193) | ||
| 494569 | 2006-10-27 15:50:00 | This morning as I awake . . . still alive, mind you . . . . the fire's moved pretty much to the West and South . . . . nearer to us, but actually going all around our Northern flank . Our valley is still completely full of white smoke . . . the color of the smoke was black for a while yesterday until the fire generated it's own weather patters and took the black smoke to higher altitudes . Still 0-5% containment, as it was last night about 9PM our time (-7GMT) . One badly burned firefighter still clinging to life . . . his lungs are failing and he is 90-95% burned over his body . He probably will not survive . The civilian count is all over the board as to deaths . Some count to 20+, others are much more conservative . . . all the way down to no civilian casualties at all . Time will tell . I can hear the helicopters rallying now on my radio scanner . . . they are going to work the new front lines in the Gilman Springs and Soboba Hot Springs area, on the Indian reservation . . . YES . . we have Indians in our areas! I have to get to Loma Linda this AM somehow . . . almost all roads in that direction are closed so I will have to drive a very long way around to get there . We have fire crews from San Francisco and San Marino . . . way up inNorthern Califonia . There are over 3000 firefighters here now, and they are being encamped in our fields and hotels/motels . Winds are still up to 60MPH and humidity is very low at 2-8% now . The meteriological strangeness of these Santa Ana winds is that as they drop in altitude, they compress and accelerate, dropping moisture lower and the velocities sometimes to 75MPH . The winds start as a hig pressure area, usually around the four-corners area of the US Southwest . . . Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado where there is very dry air in the first place . They spin in a clockwise motion and as they travel West to East, the winds will shift from an absolute Eastern direction that really heats up and drys the air . The winds on the other side of our local mountains cause a deep temperature drop and there's been strong freeze warnings to those outlying areas . Many food crops get frozen that way while we normally cook in our own juices . The one nice thing os the winds is that they really clean out the air, smog-wise . New areas that are burned over: Sunshine Peak, Black Mountain, Soboba Hot Springs, several unincorporated villages and residences . I just lost the rest of this post as the connection timed out when I tried to preview it . . I will post it all again when I get back from my lab tests for my next surgery . . . on the 32st . Sorry . . . . . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 494570 | 2006-10-27 15:51:00 | SORRY FOR THE DOUBLE . . IT WAN'T MY FAULT! I made a mistake on the date at the end of this . . . there is NO 32st of October . . . I meant the 31st! This morning as I awake . . . still alive, mind you . . . . the fire's moved pretty much to the West and South . . . . nearer to us, but actually going all around our Northern flank . Our valley is still completely full of white smoke . . . the color of the smoke was black for a while yesterday until the fire generated it's own weather patters and took the black smoke to higher altitudes . Still 0-5% containment, as it was last night about 9PM our time (-7GMT) . One badly burned firefighter still clinging to life . . . his lungs are failing and he is 90-95% burned over his body . He probably will not survive . The civilian count is all over the board as to deaths . Some count to 20+, others are much more conservative . . . all the way down to no civilian casualties at all . Time will tell . I can hear the helicopters rallying now on my radio scanner . . . they are going to work the new front lines in the Gilman Springs and Soboba Hot Springs area, on the Indian reservation . . . YES . . we have Indians in our areas! I have to get to Loma Linda this AM somehow . . . almost all roads in that direction are closed so I will have to drive a very long way around to get there . We have fire crews from San Francisco and San Marino . . . way up inNorthern Califonia . There are over 3000 firefighters here now, and they are being encamped in our fields and hotels/motels . Winds are still up to 60MPH and humidity is very low at 2-8% now . The meteriological strangeness of these Santa Ana winds is that as they drop in altitude, they compress and accelerate, dropping moisture lower and the velocities sometimes to 75MPH . The winds start as a hig pressure area, usually around the four-corners area of the US Southwest . . . Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado where there is very dry air in the first place . They spin in a clockwise motion and as they travel West to East, the winds will shift from an absolute Eastern direction that really heats up and drys the air . The winds on the other side of our local mountains cause a deep temperature drop and there's been strong freeze warnings to those outlying areas . Many food crops get frozen that way while we normally cook in our own juices . The one nice thing os the winds is that they really clean out the air, smog-wise . New areas that are burned over: Sunshine Peak, Black Mountain, Soboba Hot Springs, several unincorporated villages and residences . I just lost the rest of this post as the connection timed out when I tried to preview it . . I will post it all again when I get back from my lab tests for my next surgery . . . on the 31st . Sorry . . . . . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 494571 | 2006-10-27 20:13:00 | Had seen this thread but had not read any of it until now. Scary stuff ! As I read it we will not get an update from SurferJoe until Tuesday as he will by now have gone on his journey to Loma Linda. :( Am sure thoughts of a lot of us from PressF1 will be with him. He is a unique contributor. Misty :2cents: |
Misty (368) | ||
| 494572 | 2006-10-30 14:43:00 | BULLETIN! The fire's about 80% contained, and the true results of it's damage will be broadcast today by about noon our time (-7 GMT). The surviving firefighter has burns over 90% of his body, and although still alive, is not expected to make it. The blanketing smoke has abated and we can breathe again....but we still see a plume of smoke rising from areas, mostly to the South of the original fire areas. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 494573 | 2006-10-30 15:28:00 | Your fire made the World section of my Dunedin newpaper, the Otago Daily Times, today. | Laura (43) | ||
| 494574 | 2006-10-31 05:27:00 | Yeah...I saw it on the BBC news too...I get the local Public Broadcast station (PBS..KVCR) and they have the BBC stuff every night. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 494575 | 2006-10-31 07:03:00 | Yello Joe, on Google Earth, is the burnt looking area from another lot of bushfires, cheers | Whenu (9358) | ||
| 494576 | 2007-03-12 23:16:00 | Hi SJ46 Just been looking at the mid-day news here in NZ and see that there are fresh fires in Orange County. Outside of the normal fire danger season. That's near you is'nt it ! Hope you and family etc are okay !! Misty :horrified |
Misty (368) | ||
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