ship-jumper's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Waiting and worried It is a beautiful day here today. We are experiencing an early Indian summer with temperature readings to set records for the month of October. The leaves are in full colour. It is truly spectacular. Ask me if I'm loving it or am in a state of bliss. My answer? No. I have much worry about my mom and aunt poolagir living in San Diego right now with all of these fires. It is an awful situation right now down there. My understanding of things is that the fires were about 30 miles from them last night around 10 PM. This morning at around 10 AM I found out the fires are about 12-15 miles from them. That is close. That is fast moving. That is just damn fucking scary. No other way to put it. Given that normal humidity ratings are on average 70% in general, and currently in San Diego the humidity is only 6%,-no, that was not a typo it is indeed at 6%, and the winds are about 50 mph with expectations to increase to around 70 mph.....ugh. Get the picture? People in San Diego have been told to not go outside unless absolutely necessary as the air quality is tipping the scales in the wrong direction with all the smoke. Schools are closed. Roads are closed. Businesses are closed. Not a good situation at all. The fires 4 years ago came within one mile of my mom's house. She had smoke damage and damage from the 'raining ash' that poured from the skies. I can only hope and pray right now that the Santa Ana winds will change and the fires will not get this close again, or worse, closer. It is very hard being about 2,600 miles away from them right now. I can't do anything, and I don't always know exactly what is going on as the news reports don't get specific enough for me to know exactly where things are happening. Mom did send me the link for the local news feeds there, so that is helping a bit. Not sure if I was there what exactly I could do anyway, but at least I could be with them. It's days like today I wish I win the lottery. If I did I win fly as close as I could, buy a big ass ship, and go pick up mom, aunt and their loved ones and bring them to safety on the water. As it is right now, even if they get the evacuation orders there really isn't anywhere they can go!! Mom has an evacuation point in her neighborhood with the stadium....but if her area gets the evacuation order....ahem...well that means they will evacuate the stadium too! Sooooo......where do they go?? Ugh. I'm not a huge control freak but it is times like this that I REALLY hate not being able to do a damn thing. Except pray. Except wait. It's the waiting that sucks the most. 11:42 a.m. - 2007-10-22 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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