My power is back up after being down just one hour.
Here in Lakeside, we have experience evacuations in the far northeast area of the town. However, I am in a more populated and built area of town, in almost impossible area for any fire to reach and burn many buildings.
I work at Barona Valley Ranch Resort and Casino, which was given an evacuation order at around 1 in the morning. The casino authorities defied the order (see the fireblog at signonsandiego.com), but anyone that wanted to leave could.
I was told not to report to work today, as the northbound lane on Wildcat Canyon Road, the main artery to reach the casino was closed and turned into a southbound lane, allowing many reisdents of Ramona to evacuate more smoothy.
36,000 residents were forced to leave Ramona.
There are many residential fire alarms going off near my home because the smoke is so thick, and a thin layer of ash covers everything. The sound that the alarms make remind of the the noise that the transmitters from equipment the firemen wore and you could hear on 9/11. A multi-pitched whistling.
Anyone interested in local coverage should watch on KUSI.com, as the national coverage seems to be severly lacking in comparison to the impact of the disaster.
My exact location WC, is off of 67 south of the Lakeside Rodeo grounds. The 67 is closed to north bound traffic at that point, if u are familiar with that intersection, and the lanes converted all to southbound, as Poway is having a big problem. Just moments ago, Scripps Poway Parkway to the east was closed, so it is likely that the 67 highway out of the area will not be needed except for those already out of Poway and east of Poway, which should already have been long evacuated.
Wildcat Canyon Road, which is the main road to the Barona Casino, is the place where 12 people died in the 2003 Cedar fire.
Here in Lakeside, we have experience evacuations in the far northeast area of the town. However, I am in a more populated and built area of town, in almost impossible area for any fire to reach and burn many buildings.
I work at Barona Valley Ranch Resort and Casino, which was given an evacuation order at around 1 in the morning. The casino authorities defied the order (see the fireblog at signonsandiego.com), but anyone that wanted to leave could.
I was told not to report to work today, as the northbound lane on Wildcat Canyon Road, the main artery to reach the casino was closed and turned into a southbound lane, allowing many reisdents of Ramona to evacuate more smoothy.
36,000 residents were forced to leave Ramona.
There are many residential fire alarms going off near my home because the smoke is so thick, and a thin layer of ash covers everything. The sound that the alarms make remind of the the noise that the transmitters from equipment the firemen wore and you could hear on 9/11. A multi-pitched whistling.
Anyone interested in local coverage should watch on KUSI.com, as the national coverage seems to be severly lacking in comparison to the impact of the disaster.
My exact location WC, is off of 67 south of the Lakeside Rodeo grounds. The 67 is closed to north bound traffic at that point, if u are familiar with that intersection, and the lanes converted all to southbound, as Poway is having a big problem. Just moments ago, Scripps Poway Parkway to the east was closed, so it is likely that the 67 highway out of the area will not be needed except for those already out of Poway and east of Poway, which should already have been long evacuated.
Wildcat Canyon Road, which is the main road to the Barona Casino, is the place where 12 people died in the 2003 Cedar fire.
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