Wednesday, October 24, 2007

California Fires - we are OK, for now

Hi, we have been out of the San Diego area since Sunday, when the first fire started in Malibu. THEN all the fires started in San Diego County.

So, if you are trying to reach us, you have not been able to because we are in the RV up by Big Sur, without cell phone and internet!

Today we drove up to Carmel, and I am in the library to publish this info. The big fire is quite a ways from our home, although several small ones started and were put out within 5 to 15 miles. It's very scary for everyone there.

So far our home is fine.... just covered with 1/4 inch of ash our neighbor tells us. We'll see Sunday when we get back. (Oct 27).

Check out this red sky we had to drive through north of Malibu! We felt like we were on Mars! Even though the sky looked like this, we could see no fire anywhere. After 20 minutes of this drive along the 101, we were happy to get into the clear skies.





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