San Diego is burning

San Diego is burning again, almost exactly four years from the 2003 Cedar Fire. We woke up to the sky being filled with smoke this morning, and news reports show that the fire has just jumped I-15, which is about 10 miles from our home.

Alberto has been called and told not to go into work, as the location of his job site is in the middle of all of this mess. I think I will stay close to home too.

We are only 2 miles from the coast, so I do not think the fire will make it here...but the Santa Ana winds were incredibly strong last night and, like they said on the news, anything can happen.

They also told us that if police came around with an evacuation call, to please do what they say, as it unlikely they'll be back a second time.

Here are some pictures I took from the Cedar fire 4 years ago. It was from my cell phone, so not the best quality, but you can see the glow of everything in the sky:

October 2003 - This was taken from my bedroom window in the morning

October 2003 - Here you can see all the gunk in the air as I was driving to work that day. That is ash falling on my windshield, and the glow of the fire is visible on the horizon.

The Cedar fire was further away than this one is, so we're going to play it safe today.

We'll let you know how it turns out!