Southern California Fires

I went out yesterday from work around noon to get some lunch and the sky was a odd shade of orange and there was ash on my car. The fires are in San Diego county and then sort of encircle Los Angeles. Fortunately, they are not on the mountains near my house.

We normally have beautiful sunsets in Los Angeles, but the fires have made some amazing sunsets the past few days.

This is satellite image of some of the fires around Los Angeles. This does not include San Diego. MSNBC has an interesting interactive map of the fires: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21436901/

We did Nelson's birthday at Lake Arrowhead earlier this year... here is a recent photo of the lake. I talked to Sister Solidad yesterday and she said the fire is just 2 miles from their cabin that we stayed at for the weekend.

“It'll go all the way to the ocean before it stops. We might save some stuff, but we can't stop it.”

San Diego Fire Capt. KIRK HUMPHRIES, on the California wildfires that have forced the evacuation of nearly 1 million residents