Y'all have been asking

[SGKent]

Have been getting PM's and e-mails from fellow Samba bay owners asking how we are here. I am in the Sacto area and other than smoke and supporting folks working with OES we are fine.

I've added some photos from AP / Google showing a portion of the damage in the Santa Rosa area since it is near the Redwoods and wineries, and many of you have passed thru that area. As these fires progress some of our bay brothers and sisters will be affected by these fires. If you are, please share your needs, and stories here. This is awful. As of last night the count on homes and businesses destroyed in California these last few days was about 3500. Something like 560 people are unaccounted for. The count has to be larger today because the winds have kicked up again.

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[MorkC68]

Stay safe dude.
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[vwjetboat]

omg...

[raygreenwood]

Damn...thanks for posting! Be careful!......
Ray

[Wasted youth]

Steve, have the responding agencies been able to arrange the air drops with retardant? Seems like an unusually high amount of devastation.

[TDCTDI]

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[SGKent]

Steve - those were my own thoughts. Cathy knows someone in that area from the local walk for cancer thing she sponsors every year. Apparently from the time the evacuation notice was given to the time the winds pushed the flames thru was something like 15 minutes.
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[tristessa]

Glad you're safe, SGKent. Scary shit.

My parents home in Santa Rosa is in the evacuation zone, and while they're fine and the house is fine, but quite a few people I grew up with live/lived in Coffey Park, Larkfield-Wikiup and other areas impacted by the fire. Hell, the Kmart that burned is where I bought my first bike with my own money...

What I've heard about the conditions Sunday/Monday makes me think of the night when the Oakland Hills fire started back in '91 -- warm, dry and hella windy. My Scout troop was camping in the hills east of Petaluma that weekend .. almost blew my tent down the slope.

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[Xevin]

Yes, very tragic. My buddies winery he works for burnt down. You all probably saw it, Signorello Estate. My two sisters and mom live in Napa. You can see the fires on the hill behind where they live. Cars are packed up and ready to go as the winds are forecasted to pick up. Be well all you folks in the area.
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[TomWesty]

That's just heartbreaking. In the last few years I have had 2 fires stopped just blocks from my house. That is unbelievable devastation. And many folks had very little warning. At least in my case we had a day to ready for evacuation on the big fire. That was the first time I had seen a jet airliner dropping retardant. It always used to be WWII refitted bombers before that.
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[Wasted youth]

I don't know if this link will work or not, but this was what I was asking about... it will be blocked by the network's Facebook login screen, but you can click 'not now' at the bottom of that, then play the video:

https://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco/videos/10155177759189436/

I wasn't trying to suggest a large dump of red snot on evacuees, but I suppose that could have been implied. The idea is to dump it on the location prior to the flames getting there, so hopefully people would have already left by that point.

[SGKent]

Steve - we saw that air tanker leaving McClellan Field yesterday while we were on the way home. Huge 747 air tanker. Many of the large CalFire planes fly out of there.

from home tonight I was thinking about all this. I think we are spending too much money deciding how many trees are needed before one gets AG water, whether the home should have a lawn or decomposed granite in front of it, whether a bullet tip is cheating the magazine button law, whether we should arrest someone for saying he instead of she, too many laws determining who can pee in a specific toilet, while the city parking elevators are used for a toilet for the homeless - not to mention the hepatitis outbreak from it in San Diego, and not enough time planning for emergencies like this. I see a Katrina here where the state says nothing like this can happen here but it does. Some 90 year old man burned to death in a mobile home because there was no one to drive him away from the fires. He'd lived there a very long time. Can't believe the state feels it is more important to spend millions figuring ways to beat the 2nd amendment than build and maintain a database of folks who absolutely will need help in this kind of emergency. The reason it is a pattern to me is last winter we turned on the TV here in the Sacramento area and a warning flashed on the screen - "if you are in the following communities evacuate - Oroville dam is in the process of breeching and it is anticipated it will fail within the next 15 minutes - evacuate immediately. Seek high ground" Fortunately they barely got out of that one. Even now when one reads the engineering reports that have been published they are worried about a wet green area on the main dam. The roots that damaged the mail spillway were there for years and the inspection crews just wrote them off. The state is failing miserably to do its duty in leadership on these things. The party and guy at the top would rather spend billions digging tunnels than simply maintaining what is already in place. Look at what bay owners here have had to go thru with catalytic convertors and we still don't have an approval from ARB. I wrote them last week and they said we'll see if we can find someone to answer your questions - and........ I am still waiting for that someone to contact me - apparently so was the 90 year old in the mobile home but help never came.

[Abscate]

You would have plenty of money if you didn't have to bail out the rest of the states, for which we thank you.

God bless and stay safe/
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GOD BLESS YOU
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[Randy in Maine]

Amazing just how fast those fires are moving. Not much anyone can do to really stop them either. Stay safe!!

[SGKent]

[airkooledchris]

Shut off the electricity intentionally when there are so many reports of downed lines?

Im sure it's not that simple and it would likely take out a ton of homes that aren't in the direct path, but at this point the extreme measures need to be considered.