Sacramento has a 2 alarm fire by i-5 near Natomas.
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I'm in Elk Grove, so if it gets to the point where I'm in danger, Sac County as a whole is pretty much fucked.
Edit: not too surprised, though, the air is dry and the wind is straight bonkers.
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80 and 5 are both back open, bridge is fine in Vallejo. News is saying that it did actually cross the straight, but it was contained to 150 acres or so. There was a grass fire kinda near to me, but they managed to put it out relatively quick.
Some houses destroyed in Windsor, but it hasn't ripped through town like Paradise.
One of our trees lost a healthy branch, and tons of leaves everywhere, but nothing else here.
Looks like overnight, the worst winds are going to be up in the sierras.
There was a lot of wind and my internet went out while I was trying to binge Bojack Horseman, so I think we can all see the true tragedy, here.
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There's a fire next to the 405 in LA that's being called the Getty Fire, due to it's proximity to the Getty Center.
The hillside on the other side of the 405 in the Sepulveda Pass burned during the last big fire weather event we had, I guess it was only a matter of time.
Traffic is gonna suck, air quality is gonna suck, people have lost their homes, big suck all around.
Edit: oh, because it was discussed yesterday, here's a snippet from the LA Times coverage of the Getty Fire:
Several homes also were burning on Tigertail Road, and officials say embers were being cast a mile ahead of the body of the fire amid moderate winds.
It is nowhere near as windy as it was up north, or even had been down here this past week, and embers are still traveling a mile ahead of the fire line.
The Getty Fire's mandatory evacuation zone has been expanded a bit, there's now a corridor through Pacific Palisades running right down to the Pacific that has to evacuate.
More heavy wind anticipated in norcal on tuesday so they're shutting down power again, which is to say not turning the power back on at all for a large rural portion of the people who've been blacked out since they haven't inspected their lines yet. Looking like 5-7 total consecutive days of blackout for large swathes of norcal.
Sigh yep no power restoration today for me looks like.
At least we have a supermarket that's well-hardened against blackouts here, seems like they can keep their refrigeration and all their departments running on generator and solar power, and the only thing they were running out of yesterday was bottled water.
Jeez, sounds like there might be even more people blacked out on Wednesday too.
LA is back under a Red Flag warning again beginning at 11AM this morning and lasting until Thursday evening, and my corner of LA is also under a gale watch from 2AM to 5PM tomorrow.
Ronald Reagan library is basically surrounded by fire now.
Outside of California:
"A new October record low temperature for the lower 48 states was set this morning when Peter Sinks, Utah fell to -45.5 between 2:15 and 2:30 am. The previous record was -34.5 set on October 28th (two days ago). The record prior to this year was -33 at Soda Butte, WY (Yellowstone National Park) on Oct 29, 1917.
The record for the entire US including Alaska is -48 at Clearwater, AK on Oct 31, 1975. Additionally -44 was recorded at Chandalar Lake, AK on Oct 26, 2008 and Clearwater, AK on Oct 30, 1975"
I'm watching the local ABC affiliate's live coverage of the Easy Fire and they're on the ground with some folks trying to evacuate a bunch of horses and good lord do those horses not want to get in their trailers.
Edit: Easy Fire up to 972 acres now, so it more than doubled in size since my last update an hour ago.
We're supposed to get 20mm+ of rain tomorrow night, so boroughs around here are frantically trying to contact residents to delay halloween activities to friday night
I wonder how successful that will be
On that ABC7 livestream, they cut to a crew in Fontana covering multiple big-rig tip overs due to wind on Interstate 15. One happened while they were broadcasting, shit's bad. Emergency workers and news crews on the scene can hardly stand up in the wind.
Easy fire up to 1300 acres now too.
78mph wind gust recorded at the Boney Mountain weather station, lots of locations in SoCal getting gusts over 70mph.
Edit 2: New smaller fires in Calabasas (101 northbound closed) and Jurupa Valley (evacuating a mobile home park.) Lots of wind-borne embers in that second fire. Jurupa Valley fire is up to 50 acres, was initially reported as about 10. Fire captain just told the ABC7 crew to GTFO of the way, fire was moving quickly.
We're supposed to get 20mm+ of rain tomorrow night, so boroughs around here are frantically trying to contact residents to delay halloween activities to friday night
I wonder how successful that will be
Rain here, too, if probably not that much. Thank goodness trick or treating is done in the apartment buildings here, though. I remember going out in the snow when I was younger, but rain just seems worse to me.
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Reporter stopping woman with arms full of stuff with dog trying to evacuate house. I would have told reporter to go fuck themselves and get out of the way.
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@ElJeffe - not sure whereabouts you're at, but fyi
Fires happen anyway only now there's a bunch of people without power who are reliant on their phone's battery for news updates. Great job, PG&E!
Given how many trees are down and the condition of PG&E's infrastructure, I would expect today to be a LOT worse if they hadn't, tbh.
I'm in Elk Grove, so if it gets to the point where I'm in danger, Sac County as a whole is pretty much fucked.
Edit: not too surprised, though, the air is dry and the wind is straight bonkers.
Some houses destroyed in Windsor, but it hasn't ripped through town like Paradise.
One of our trees lost a healthy branch, and tons of leaves everywhere, but nothing else here.
Looks like overnight, the worst winds are going to be up in the sierras.
The hillside on the other side of the 405 in the Sepulveda Pass burned during the last big fire weather event we had, I guess it was only a matter of time.
Traffic is gonna suck, air quality is gonna suck, people have lost their homes, big suck all around.
Edit: oh, because it was discussed yesterday, here's a snippet from the LA Times coverage of the Getty Fire:
It is nowhere near as windy as it was up north, or even had been down here this past week, and embers are still traveling a mile ahead of the fire line.
Also air quality on the west side fucking sucks right now.
Winds are back to coming from the west, so all the smoke which was blown out over the ocean is getting blown back in.
Air quality will probably (counterintuitively?) get better again when conditions get bad again later in the week.
At least we have a supermarket that's well-hardened against blackouts here, seems like they can keep their refrigeration and all their departments running on generator and solar power, and the only thing they were running out of yesterday was bottled water.
Jeez, sounds like there might be even more people blacked out on Wednesday too.
Stay safe in the LA area, the next few days are being forecast as record extreme fire danger.
The Easy Fire in Simi Valley is now up to 407 acres.
There's also a much, much smaller fire in the community of Nuevo out in Riverside county but they're reporting structures burned.
Outside of California:
Edit: Easy Fire up to 972 acres now, so it more than doubled in size since my last update an hour ago.
I wonder how successful that will be
Easy fire up to 1300 acres now too.
78mph wind gust recorded at the Boney Mountain weather station, lots of locations in SoCal getting gusts over 70mph.
Edit 2: New smaller fires in Calabasas (101 northbound closed) and Jurupa Valley (evacuating a mobile home park.) Lots of wind-borne embers in that second fire. Jurupa Valley fire is up to 50 acres, was initially reported as about 10. Fire captain just told the ABC7 crew to GTFO of the way, fire was moving quickly.
Rain here, too, if probably not that much. Thank goodness trick or treating is done in the apartment buildings here, though. I remember going out in the snow when I was younger, but rain just seems worse to me.
https://abc7.com/watch/live/
While up North I'm freezing my ass off.