That's the response I gave my sister when she called yesterday morning to see how we were doing. Sunday as we left church there was that smell of smoke in the air and ash falling from the sky, and by Monday night we had our 72 hour kits, air mattress, blankets and other evacuation items lined up at the door
waiting in case the order came. At times I felt like I was almost surrounded by fires to the north, east and south. I wasn't really too worried, having gone through this situation 4 years ago (shortly after Harrison was born), but I'll have to admit after going to bed knowing that
Del Mar (directly north of us) was being evacuated last night, I did wake up at 4:30 in the morning to check to see if we were under any advisories. This fire, unlike the one last time, seemed likely to hit the coast. Thankfully we haven't come to that point, and it looks like we'll probably avoid it. People are being let back into the areas closest to us, while new evacuation orders have come out for Julian. We were actually planning on going to Julian on Monday - I am sad we wont be making that trip, but very thankful the fires didn't start after we were already there. It's been kind of nice - all four of us have been home together for most of yesterday and today. We tried to make the best of it - the boys didn't seem to mind getting to watch a little more TV than normal,
and had a bunch of fun with play-dough in the kitchen. I think they will be wanting to go outside by tomorrow, and hopefully the wind change will make that possible. We've been shut up in our house since Sunday night due to the very poor air quality outside. Tonight we are just thankful that it looks like the worst has passed (at least for us) and life will be getting back to normal very soon. Sam plans to go back to work tomorrow (even though campus is technically closed for the rest of the week - no rest for the anxious to graduate graduate student...), and I might try to make it into the Y tomorrow. It felt nice that we felt pretty well prepared - we had crank operated lights and radios, some water storage, first aid kits and other basic needs and supplies readily on hand. It also felt nice to not have to use them.
That's the response I gave my sister when she called yesterday morning to see how we were doing. Sunday as we left church there was that smell of smoke in the air and ash falling from the sky, and by Monday night we had our 72 hour kits, air mattress, blankets and other evacuation items lined up at the door
waiting in case the order came. At times I felt like I was almost surrounded by fires to the north, east and south. I wasn't really too worried, having gone through this situation 4 years ago (shortly after Harrison was born), but I'll have to admit after going to bed knowing that
Del Mar (directly north of us) was being evacuated last night, I did wake up at 4:30 in the morning to check to see if we were under any advisories. This fire, unlike the one last time, seemed likely to hit the coast. Thankfully we haven't come to that point, and it looks like we'll probably avoid it. People are being let back into the areas closest to us, while new evacuation orders have come out for Julian. We were actually planning on going to Julian on Monday - I am sad we wont be making that trip, but very thankful the fires didn't start after we were already there. It's been kind of nice - all four of us have been home together for most of yesterday and today. We tried to make the best of it - the boys didn't seem to mind getting to watch a little more TV than normal,
and had a bunch of fun with play-dough in the kitchen. I think they will be wanting to go outside by tomorrow, and hopefully the wind change will make that possible. We've been shut up in our house since Sunday night due to the very poor air quality outside. Tonight we are just thankful that it looks like the worst has passed (at least for us) and life will be getting back to normal very soon. Sam plans to go back to work tomorrow (even though campus is technically closed for the rest of the week - no rest for the anxious to graduate graduate student...), and I might try to make it into the Y tomorrow. It felt nice that we felt pretty well prepared - we had crank operated lights and radios, some water storage, first aid kits and other basic needs and supplies readily on hand. It also felt nice to not have to use them.
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