Yikes, glad you're safe, Larry. I'm north of you in Woodside, and it's unlikely that it will come to it, but last night I put all my cameras and lenses in bags and made sure a hard drive with my archive was packed as well. Just in case.
j -- Juan Buhler - http://www.juanbuhler.com <http://www.jbuhler.com> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 10:38 AM Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > We bugged out last night. We are safe at the home of friends in Santa Cruz. > > https://www.latimes.com/wildfires-map/?fire=czu-august-lightning-complex > > seems to be the most detailed fire map > > If you zoom in between Felton and Ben Lomond, my house is near Brackney, > close to where the river crosses hwy 9 twice. > > As of about 8am we are now under mandatory evacuation > https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f0121f7f2f0941afb3ed70529b2cee75? > > I had hoped that we'd be able to go back and retrieve a couple things we > had forgotten last night, Oh well > > another fire map > > https://firms2.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:2020-08-19..2020-08-20;l:street;@-122.1,37.1,13z > > > On Aug 20, 2020, at 7:56 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I note your two posts are about 4 hours apart and in that time the fire > has halved the distance to your location. > > > > Pack the car now & get ready so there's no urgency when the evacuation > order does reach you. > > > > Hell, your last post was five hours ago. By this time you should already > be gone. > > > > On 8/19/2020 04:48:42, Larry Colen wrote: > >> Here’s a map of the fires, I’m about halfway between Felton and Ben > Lomond > >> > https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/?fbclid=IwAR2KjXriCGfRbUQeEixiannqV3ERliJpsDZk4uSe6pJV0TsCbzH8bGsA4Ec#d:2020-08-18..2020-08-19;l:street;@-122.1,37.2,11z > >> The nearest one is about 10 miles away, the evacuation zone is now > about 4 miles away. > >>> On Aug 18, 2020, at 9:36 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> There are a bunch of wildfires from the lightning in my general area. > Since people will often ask about excitement that’s 100 miles away, folks > are being evacuated about 10 miles north of me: > >>> > >>> > https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/ > >>> > >>> I’ve been hearing fire trucks going past my house for a couple hours, > but apart from smoke that’s about all the effect it has on me right now. > >>> > >>> So, at the moment, there’s nothing major to worry about. > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Larry Colen > >>> [email protected] > > > > > > > > -- > > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
