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Of course the best info comes from bloggers, this is one of the best overviews I have seen of the route of the fire. http://and-still-i-persist.com/?cat=50 As it is moving now the fire will sweep directly south of us, unless the wind changes.   

About an hour ago 250,000 people had been evacuated, my guess is that by now the number has doubled.

Usually during these wildfires the only places being evacuated are the inner eastern areas of the county.  Now the evactuations are in the coastal areas.  This is scary.

The villain in this story, is the Santa Ana wind.  If you haven’t ever felt one of our winds, it is like nothing I have felt anywhere else in the country.  It is a powerful wind, but it doesn’t cool you off at all, it makes you hotter.   The wind is completely dry and hot.  [...]

San Diego county is really just a maze of canyons.   The coastal communites seem a million miles away from the hot, desert inland.  But the canyons go straight east from the sea to the sand.  So when the Santa Ana winds are blowing hard and furious east to west; a fire that starts in the [...]

Vista is relatively clear and free of smoke, Vista schools are closed.  San Diego is under a thick cloud of smoke, San Diego schools are open.  Go figure!   Richard headed off to work this morning, the freeway was a parking lot and there was a thick smoke cloud straight ahead so he came back home.  We [...]

One of the many, many things about human beings I will never fail to understand are those who refuse to evacuate when a raging fire is headed right at them.  Firemen are risking their lives pulling people out of burn areas when those people were told to evacuate hours ago.   Unbelievable. Speaking of unbelievable they [...]

I don’t have a lot of information about the fires in Southern Cal other than what I see on tv.   I will link below to a fire map.  The problem for most of San Diego County right now is smoke not fire and I just wanted to let anyone in the area know that the [...]

    Professor Albus Dumbledore is a fictional character! I read the books, so don’t add things post-publishing. Your stories are done. Now, stop pandering for what ever is your reason to the ‘gay’ movement. BTW, Batman and Boy Wonder are fictional also.

Sergeant Sean McCabe comes home from Iraq and now intends to join the FDNY.  He sums up his enlistment quite simply “But there was no draft. This is all gonna come down to the guys who raise their hand, and I wanted to be one of them.” Those who are fighting in the middle east [...]

Did you hear that leader of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate? After his writing to Rush Limbaugh’s producer in order to get Rush censored because the Democrats don’t like what he says, Limbaugh sold that letter on ebay auction website. The current, with hope and prays temporary, majority leader Harry Reid today spoke on [...]

Foxnews is reporting that Sam Brownback has pulled out of of the Republican race for the ’08 presidential nomination. He joins Tommy “the other” Thompson to the sidelines. The Wisconsian Thompson recently announced his support for the former Mayor of NYC, I don’t think Brownback will follow that course; Any guesses for whom he will [...]

Over at the Rush Limbaugh website, he has the letter that U.S. Senate leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats sent to Mark Mays who is the CEO of Clear Channel Communications. The Senate Democrats wrote this letter in a response to Limbaugh calling a soldier, who lied about serving in Iraq but claims he [...]

This story in the NY Post is so horrible I can’t even find the words to condemn. Read it and say a prayer for our troops whose lives mean less than liberal sensibilities. Excerpt: U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping [...]

So the fear is that the Religious Right is going to run a third party candidate.  I have stated clearly I will support Rudy if he is the party’s nominee even though I don’t want him to get the nomination.  (For that matter I didn’t want Dole or either Bush to the get the nomination and [...]

    From out of the northwest the mad S.L.U.T.1 makes her proposition to the political Left. The endless hate for cars is causing reckless abandonment toward spending possible billions of dollars on a public transport system for a minimum of ridership. The Madison Townhallers met last night for their October gathering at the Fitchburg town listening [...]

A coworker recently engaged me in a painful “discussion” about health care. This man is actually convinced that the current state of health care in America is so horrible, people are leaving America to get better health care in Mexico and Cuba. Now, however flawed and inaccurate the details, I can understand why some people [...]