California is on fire again.

**RICHARD** · 10-21-2007, 10:41 AM

Well here we go again!

The Santa Ana winds gusting over 80 miles an hour since early this morning.

We have three fires going and a few houses that have burned...

Malibu, Chatsworth and Castaic.....

The L.A. County Air Operations base is a half mile from my house and they just flew the Firehawks over the house.

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And we also have the reporters who are doing their best to ask the evacuees stupid questions like, "Where are you going?", "What do you have in the car?" , 'Where are you going?", "what did you put in the car before you left?"
and "where are you going?"

**DrKym** · 10-21-2007, 10:44 AM

OH NO RICHARD!

You aren't in the line of fire are you? Are you and the Edster going to be ok?

**Chica** · 10-21-2007, 10:56 AM

ARE YOU OKAY NOW!!????

ARE THE FIRES UNDER CONTROL?????

**Randi** · 10-21-2007, 11:09 AM

Just read about it on LA News, how frightening!! I hope you're all OK!

Please check in and let us know.

**gini** · 10-21-2007, 11:44 AM

I just saw a news update on t.v. A Presbyterian Church and an animal hospital have been destroyed. There is no word yet if they got all of the animals out. I pray that they did.

The winds are horrific - and that is what causes the fires to spread so rapidly as flames jump from one spot to another.

At my home the winds were strong last night - but all is calm right now.

**wolf_Q** · 10-21-2007, 11:47 AM

How scary! I hope everyone in the line of fire will be ok and that they'll be able to get it under control soon.

**NoahsMommy** · 10-26-2007, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by gini

The winds are horrific - and that is what causes the fires to spread so rapidly as flames jump from one spot to another.

At my home the winds were strong last night - but all is calm right now.

Amen to this....the winds have been HORRIBLE at our place. We live in the hills of Simi Valley - VALLEY. Valleys are NOT good places to live when windy, espeically when the place you live means - WINDY VALLEY (Simi = windy in Native American).

Luckily its died down A LOT since everything began, but wow. On Monday, my mom was so distraught - we had to give her 3 margaritas to calm her. My mom doesn't really drink - maybe wine socially. She was soooo upset to see her garden in ruins.

Her/their Gardens have been in 'Garden Tours', have won Awards many times over. Most weekends consist of at least one day in the garden and during the week after work I'd say about 2 to 3 days spent out there until it gets dark. My step-dad is retired, so he is out there additionally during the day. They spend a lot of time, money, energy, and LOVE on that garden. Its VERY important to them...my mom has been gardening since she was a little girl - taught by her mother. We have things in the garden that belonged to my grandma, from her garden, her English Garden.

Our Arbors came down - they were so top heavy with roses and flowering vines that despite being reinforced and cemented in at the bottom, the wind toppled over first. All the trees are so wind blown, are naked (leaves have been blown off), snapped off in the weaker areas, leaning or have snapped off because the 80 mph wind was too strong for our 2-year-old and younger trees (2 years is the very oldest...). Poor, poor trees and bushes. Even the tree stakes snapped - these are wooden poles thicker than the trees they support!!

I'll be back to write more, work is calling...