Yeah pretty crazy stuff. I just spoke to our friends about 40 minutes ago and they are still able to sneak in and out to thier home from escondido via highland valley. I am sure that route will be closed pretty soon. I would agree with esmith, don’t go sightseeing.
I agree Rus… I don’t want to bang on the people in charge but I am not so sure that the afternoon assumption that winds will die in the evening during a santa ana is/was a great one. The engineer in me always leans towards worst case assumptions for design parameters rather then best case. Again though, what can you do right? Like I said, I do not know much about firefighting so I do not know how much progress is made during the middle of the night anyways whether winds are blowing or not.
What really sucks is that I would be both fires are due to some arsonist. (Okay that is a very speculative statement) How or why people get thier kicks off of that stuff is beyond me. Yes I do know Cedar Fire was caused by a dopey lost hunter…
