Re: OT the Loma fire is 20 miles away

2016-09-28 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi 
Wow. I used to live just south of where the fire is, up in the hills over 
Aptos. (If you search on "Aptos View Road, Aptos, California" in Apple Maps, it 
drops a pin on the road just a mile or so from where the house is.)

Our property line was the NIsene Marks State Park ... part of Loma Prieta. The 
epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta quake was a bare couple of miles away at 
most. By that time, I'd moved to San Francisco and weathered out the quake 
there in relative safety. But my dear friend Virginia Marks, the owner of the 
Aptos house, was still living there. I remember getting down to the house for a 
visit after the quake and feeling nearly constant tiny tremblors tick-ticking 
through the flooring. Ginny had spent two nights sleeping in the truck in a 
small open clearing nearby, fearing the trees would come down on the house. 

A wildfire is FAR scarier. :-|

G

... I remember the house and the wonderful time I lived there and was part of 
the Marks family there as if it were yesterday. It was, in reality, 1981 to 
1983 that I lived there. But I visited often—all holidays, whenever I could get 
away from JPL in SoCal, Molecular Design in San Leandro, and Apple in 
Cupertino—for many years afterwards. I will never forget the quiet beauty of 
the place and the extraordinary kindness and love afforded by John and Virginia 
Marks, and their large, rambling family. John died in 1986 while I was 
traveling for JPL, and Virginia survived him until 2002. After that the house 
was sold and that wonderful retreat into the woods at the top of Nisene Marks 
Park was lost to me. 

Remembering all the wonderful times we had together in the little house on the 
mountain brings tears to my eyes. I miss you, Ginny and John. To think that 
house might be destroyed is so terribly sad. ... :-(

John's son Steven and his family live near me in Santa Clara now. I'll have to 
call them. 

> On Sep 28, 2016, at 11:54 AM, John Francis  wrote:
> 
> 
> As Larry mentioned in an earlier post, It's a bit closer to where I live
> than it is to Larry's house.
> 
> This was taken late yesterday afternoon:
> 
>http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/LomaFire.jpg
> 
> Here's another shot taken about five minutes earlier, showing a detail
> of the mountain peak to the right (whick I think may be Loma Prieta of
> 1989 earthquake fame):
> 
>http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/LomaFireDetail.jpg
> 
> Ten minutes earlier still that plume of smoke hadn't even been there;
> just the first little wisps of smoke on this side of the hill.
> 
> Loma Prieta is about ten miles from where I took those photographs;
> my house is about 1.5 miles closer to the fire (just about straight
> ahead in the main photograph, this side of the brown hillside that
> you can see between the trees). There's a pretty wide flat valley
> just beyond those brown hills, though, and it's mostly ranchland,
> so it's not likely that we're going to have any real problems.
> 
> Technical stuff - the first shot was taken with the 60-250 all the
> way at the wide end (on a K-5); the detail shot was taken with the
> same lens at the other end of the zoom range, this  time also using
> the HD1.4x adapter I just recently accquired from Stan Halpin.
> 
> There's also a 1920x1200 version of the original shot here:
> 
>http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/LomaFireHD.jpg
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 09:28:55AM -0400, ann sanfedele wrote:
>> whats more important is how far the fire has spread - hope you can breathe
>> and it doesn't get any closer to you , Larry
>> 
>> ann
>> 
>> 
>>> On 9/27/2016 10:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
>>> I don't know how far news has spread, but there's a pretty big fire
>>> going in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
>>> 
>>> http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/26/loma-fire-map-santa-cruz-mountains/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1457
>>> 
>>> It's currently at 2200 acres and 10% containment.  Someone got an
>>> awesome photo of it from the Santa Cruz Pier last night, with the
>>> boardwalk lit up in the foreground.  Unfortunately, that wasn't me.
>>> 

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Re: OT the Loma fire is 20 miles away

2016-09-28 Thread John 

Mainly I was wondering whether the wind was blowing it in your direction
or away from you.

Hope all y'all will be safe. I won't worry unless I hear there are big
changes.


On 9/28/2016 12:18 AM, Larry Colen wrote:



John wrote:

On 9/27/2016 10:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote:

I don't know how far news has spread, but there's a pretty big fire
going in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/26/loma-fire-map-santa-cruz-mountains/



http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1457

It's currently at 2200 acres and 10% containment. Someone got an
awesome photo of it from the Santa Cruz Pier last night, with the
boardwalk lit up in the foreground. Unfortunately, that wasn't me.




So, where is that in relation to you? Is it moving away from you or
towards you?

And what are the chances it's going to come to your house?


It is a long, long ways away, this a google map of Felton to the Fire:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Felton,+CA/37.10632,-121.85318/@37.0640219,-122.0996765,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m8!4m7!1m5!1m1!1s0x808e3ef78ff33bcf:0x2209215e66ebe42c!2m2!1d-122.0732973!2d37.0513374!1m0


If you look on google earth you can see that there are a couple of
mountain ridges, a fairly large town, a four lane highway and several
excavations (pit mines for sand) between my house and the fire.

If all efforts to fight the fire were to stop (all humans vanished from
the face of the earth), it might, possibly, reach my house.  So, it's
not impossible.

My note was meant as reassurance.

By straight line, it's actually closer to both John and Nicole than it
is to me.  But I live in what's considered the Santa Cruz Mountains, so
it is likely to be described in a manner to make it sound close to my
house.

I do have several friends who live in the evacuation zone, as of last
night it was about a mile from my friend JB's house.

It is also just a few miles from the epicenter of the '89 Loma Prieta
quake, and a lot of that area was burned out in a big fire in 1985.







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Re: OT the Loma fire is 20 miles away

2016-09-28 Thread John Francis 

As Larry mentioned in an earlier post, It's a bit closer to where I live
than it is to Larry's house.

This was taken late yesterday afternoon:

http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/LomaFire.jpg

Here's another shot taken about five minutes earlier, showing a detail
of the mountain peak to the right (whick I think may be Loma Prieta of
1989 earthquake fame):

http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/LomaFireDetail.jpg

Ten minutes earlier still that plume of smoke hadn't even been there;
just the first little wisps of smoke on this side of the hill.

Loma Prieta is about ten miles from where I took those photographs;
my house is about 1.5 miles closer to the fire (just about straight
ahead in the main photograph, this side of the brown hillside that
you can see between the trees). There's a pretty wide flat valley
just beyond those brown hills, though, and it's mostly ranchland,
so it's not likely that we're going to have any real problems.

Technical stuff - the first shot was taken with the 60-250 all the
way at the wide end (on a K-5); the detail shot was taken with the
same lens at the other end of the zoom range, this  time also using
the HD1.4x adapter I just recently accquired from Stan Halpin.

There's also a 1920x1200 version of the original shot here:

http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/LomaFireHD.jpg



On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 09:28:55AM -0400, ann sanfedele wrote:
> whats more important is how far the fire has spread - hope you can breathe
> and it doesn't get any closer to you , Larry
> 
> ann
> 
> 
> On 9/27/2016 10:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
> > I don't know how far news has spread, but there's a pretty big fire
> > going in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
> > 
> > http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/26/loma-fire-map-santa-cruz-mountains/
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1457
> > 
> > It's currently at 2200 acres and 10% containment.  Someone got an
> > awesome photo of it from the Santa Cruz Pier last night, with the
> > boardwalk lit up in the foreground.  Unfortunately, that wasn't me.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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Re: OT the Loma fire is 20 miles away

2016-09-28 Thread ann sanfedele 
whats more important is how far the fire has spread - hope you can 
breathe and it doesn't get any closer to you , Larry


ann


On 9/27/2016 10:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I don't know how far news has spread, but there's a pretty big fire 
going in the Santa Cruz Mountains.


http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/26/loma-fire-map-santa-cruz-mountains/


http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1457

It's currently at 2200 acres and 10% containment.  Someone got an 
awesome photo of it from the Santa Cruz Pier last night, with the 
boardwalk lit up in the foreground.  Unfortunately, that wasn't me.






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Re: OT the Loma fire is 20 miles away

2016-09-27 Thread Larry Colen 



John wrote:

On 9/27/2016 10:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote:

I don't know how far news has spread, but there's a pretty big fire
going in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/26/loma-fire-map-santa-cruz-mountains/


http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1457

It's currently at 2200 acres and 10% containment. Someone got an
awesome photo of it from the Santa Cruz Pier last night, with the
boardwalk lit up in the foreground. Unfortunately, that wasn't me.




So, where is that in relation to you? Is it moving away from you or
towards you?

And what are the chances it's going to come to your house?


It is a long, long ways away, this a google map of Felton to the Fire:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Felton,+CA/37.10632,-121.85318/@37.0640219,-122.0996765,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m8!4m7!1m5!1m1!1s0x808e3ef78ff33bcf:0x2209215e66ebe42c!2m2!1d-122.0732973!2d37.0513374!1m0

If you look on google earth you can see that there are a couple of 
mountain ridges, a fairly large town, a four lane highway and several 
excavations (pit mines for sand) between my house and the fire.


If all efforts to fight the fire were to stop (all humans vanished from 
the face of the earth), it might, possibly, reach my house.  So, it's 
not impossible.


My note was meant as reassurance.

By straight line, it's actually closer to both John and Nicole than it 
is to me.  But I live in what's considered the Santa Cruz Mountains, so 
it is likely to be described in a manner to make it sound close to my 
house.


I do have several friends who live in the evacuation zone, as of last 
night it was about a mile from my friend JB's house.


It is also just a few miles from the epicenter of the '89 Loma Prieta 
quake, and a lot of that area was burned out in a big fire in 1985.






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Re: OT the Loma fire is 20 miles away

2016-09-27 Thread John 

On 9/27/2016 10:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote:

I don't know how far news has spread, but there's a pretty big fire
going in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/26/loma-fire-map-santa-cruz-mountains/


http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1457

It's currently at 2200 acres and 10% containment.  Someone got an
awesome photo of it from the Santa Cruz Pier last night, with the
boardwalk lit up in the foreground.  Unfortunately, that wasn't me.




So, where is that in relation to you? Is it moving away from you or
towards you?

And what are the chances it's going to come to your house?

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