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San Diego Fires -- 2007

IJ Reilly said:
The answer is no. These fires take residential buildings located in hillside suburban areas for the most part. You're hearing a lot about the huge numbers of people evacuated, but these numbers are probably way too high, and do not represent people who have necessarily lost their homes. The vast majority of evacuees haven't lost their homes.
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thanks for clearing that up. i don't really trust the news too much anymore...but the way it was sounding, the whole city was on fire and i thought it was another new orleans coming (as in 90% of the city burned down). looks like that is not the case, even though i still feel bad for those that lost everything.
 
There are indeed vast areas where most of the land has burned (as you'll see in the fire maps), but these fires have been away from the most densely populated areas. Cities have much less vegetation and many more natural firebreaks (roads), and firefighters give priority to directing fires away from populated areas, until the fires can be contained.

One thing that affects all of us, even if we live in the middle of the city, is the smoke and soot in the air. Dusk comes very early with our darkened skies. Breathing this stuff day after day can't be very good for our lungs.
 
furcalchick said:
thanks for clearing that up. i don't really trust the news too much anymore...but the way it was sounding, the whole city was on fire and i thought it was another new orleans coming (as in 90% of the city burned down). looks like that is not the case, even though i still feel bad for those that lost everything.
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These fires, as bad as they've been, weren't even as devastating as the 2003 round. The TV news programs could save a lot of money by running tapes of fires from years ago and even use the same narration and interviews, and hardly anybody would be the wiser. Brush fire coverage has become that generic. Even when you're in the middle of it, the amount of actually useful information transmitted by the local news stations is negligible. How many times do they need to ask someone who just lost their home how they feel about it? I've yet to hear anybody say, "Great! I never liked the house anyway."
 
furcalchick said:
that's probably the biggest widespread concern with these fires. can't be good.
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Breathing out is perfectly safe around here. :cool:

I wonder if the State of California should file a class action suit against Mother Nature? We might use the money we win to help victims of respiratory problems. Mother Nature doesn't carry around a lot of cash (except when banks are hit by hurricanes), but she makes her own diamonds.
 
As the fires are contained, the concern is definitely going to be air quality. Even as the smoke itself clears and the air is no longer grey/brown, there's going to be tons of particulate floating around invisible to the naked eye.

I'm back at work in SD today and several of us in the office has been fighting headaches, most likely due to the air.
 
Air quality is pretty nasty up here in Ventura County too. A lot of the smoke and ash that get blown out to sea with the offshore winds gets blown right back over land when the winds reverse like they did today. Then on Sunday/Monday we're due for some more offshore winds. The process will continue until we get some rain.
 
yeah my eyes hurt here at work

i wish i could go biking, but ill have to wait
 
Thank goodness for the brief showers that came through this morning - they'll really help to clean up the air and knock down some of the dust. Another couple of days and things should be much better.
 
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