San Diego Fires 2

Over the night the fire progressed closer but we're still okay. There are some areas further south in Jamul that have flared up a little but most of that is very rural. Technically we are still under mandatory evacuation but much of the area has reduced to a voluntary evacuation alert.

Here is a link to the progression so far that is current as of 7am 10/24:

http://sdfires.pbwiki.com/f/10232007_2230hrs_Evac_FirePerem.pdf

Tracy and I live in the bottom right quarter of grid square 1271.




The Santa Ana (hot, dry winds moving west out of the desert) winds that encouraged the fires is now dying down, the air temperature is dropping and humidity is increasing. The predicted date of 100% containment for the fire near us (The Harris Fire) is 10/31. It is currently 10% contained

The fires

Here are some pictures of the fires. All these pictures were taken within literal blocks of our place. Right now we are under mandatory evacuation. I'm not sure what "mandatory" means because we decided to sleep in our own beds tonight and no one is keeping us from doing that.

As I type this the fire just made it over another hill. I'm still pretty sure we're fine though, as the parking lot across the street (in between us and the fire) is an unofficial evacuation point for RVs and they're not leaving yet.