DAY 3 - WORSE, AND BETTER

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

9 p.m.
We watched the movie Flyboys tonight. It is terrible. I think. Brain cannot compute.

6:29 p.m.
Me no thinkie so good. Something happen to my brain. V. v. fuzzy. And I can't watch any more fire. I do not like any words that start with f. Need rest.

4:49 p.m.
We're closing the office early. Everyone is spent. But it was good that we opened the office. People seemed to need to get to the pattern of everyday life, at least a little bit.

Don spent the day righting things at home. Making sure we can go on our trip without worry. He sounds beat, too.

2 p.m.
Hit a wall. Exhausted.

1:42 p.m.
Here's a new map... dare I say this is getting BETTER?!

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10:47 a.m.
The Wild Animal Park reports they have lost 2 animals due to fire related complications. A kaing (right) and a clapper rail (left).

8:27 a.m.
Hey we're getting rather famous. catdirtsez:

The latest numbers: 640 square miles, 1300 homes destroyed, but "good news with bad numbers". Witch Fire is the worst of them! We're number one! That's for all SoCal. Suck it Malibu! Many correspondents on the ground. Full coverage! What is FEMA doing differently? What are you doing in your home to save yourself from disaster? Matt Lauer needs a fire save!

In fact, we got Al Roker at Qualcomm. Natalie Morales in RB. CNN correspondents downtown. The best of the best newscasters are here. I think I might prepare tea at the agency, for whomever might wander in wanting a quote...

6:22 a.m.
So last night, we slept in our very own beds, which was quite good. You can see from the map below that we are out of the immediate danger zone (our house is in between Encinitas and Carlsbad, closer to Encinitas, and only a couple miles from the coast). This is because the wind direction is taking the fires East instead of West.

But what's happened overnight is that a couple fires have merged creating a megafire. Though you can see a couple + in black circles (meaning these shelters have closed operations) and green flames (meaning these fires have been 100% contained), there is still unbelievable amounts of destruction going on. The winds are dying down so hopefully, today's the day we take command of this puppy.

The Chargers are relocating their game to Arizona this weekend - Qualcomm is still full of displaced people. As are many other shelters.

From what I can tell, the kids won't be going to camp this week. That means Don won't be going to work. By the time we hit the plane for Hawaii, we're really gonna need it!

I am going to go into the office today - many of this week's meetings will relocate themselves into next week when I'm gone, which surely will strike utter panic in the hearts of many. But what can ya do.

OK I got smart and linked you straight to Google, so you can click on this map and navigate all around...

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