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NorCal wildfires still not contained, evacuations ordered - Santa Rosa/Sonoma/Napa

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One Eyed Willy

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Keri said:
Already have bags packed and in the car. We are ready to go and are glued to news coverage and the local fire department twitter. We are fortunate to have a lot of family near by in Orange County, but well away from the fire, so we have places we can go. Any advice on what else to pack? We've packed some changes of clothes, important paper work and supplies for our toddler. We have some small electronics packed. We also took pictures of everything important for insurance, just in case.
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Sounds like you got it covered. From my experience, get the important stuff like you did. Papers, pictures, electronics. Once thing I wish I had gotten out had I known was TVs.. expensive things. But that might not be feasible.

One thing to check is maybe your computers? Like, where are all your photos being backed up? Take them, take the USB drives, or make sure your cloud backups are in sync. Stay safe and I hope things are under control sooner than later for your family and neighbors.
 
One Eyed Willy

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jiggle said:
Houses west of Disneyland should be fine ya?
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100% absolutely, they are miles and miles from the fires. Anaheim Hills is nowhere near Anaheim really. Anaheim Hills is probably 12 miles east of Disneyland in the north western tip of Orange County, tucked into the foothills.

norm9 said:
Lots of million+ houses getting gutted. Nuts with the wind.
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Not that the price of the homes makes it any worse really, but ya.. all of these homes burning now are probably all worth north of a million. As I'm typing this I just got an emergency alert on my phone... Mandatory Evacs now for Orange Park Acres, North Tustin, East Orange.

My father in-law just text me, they are .5 mile from the flames.
 
RPS37

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South Santa Rosa checking in. No work today. My boss and co worker both lost their houses.
Glad you're alright, Jtwo!
 
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RPS37 said:
South Santa Rosa checking in. No work today. My boss and co worker both lost their houses.
Glad you're alright, Jtwo!
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Thanks man. You too.

CMojicaAce said:
Christ. This is Hopper Avenue, Santa Rosa according to the tweet replies. Looking at it on google maps makes you realize just how much was lost :(
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The breadth of the destruction has not sunk in for me yet. Its really crazy.
 
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Keri

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One Eyed Willy said:
Sounds like you got it covered. From my experience, get the important stuff like you did. Papers, pictures, electronics. Once thing I wish I had gotten out had I known was TVs.. expensive things. But that might not be feasible.

One thing to check is maybe your computers? Like, where are all your photos being backed up? Take them, take the USB drives, or make sure your cloud backups are in sync. Stay safe and I hope things are under control sooner than later for your family and neighbors.
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Thank you, this is all great advice! We have almost all our baby's pictures backed up on the cloud, which is 98% of what I care about, but I'll check to see if we've packed up our external hard drive and USBs.
 
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m0therzer0

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Jtwo said:
Yeah, took us a bit to find a place open. But Lucky in Montegomery village is open. The other stores near me are closed, except Danos Liquors
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As of a few hours ago, the Raley's just off of 101 in Petaluma still had plenty of food, and the Luccesi community center is just across the street, functioning as a relief center, though it's now full.
 
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sungahymn

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Smoke in the clouds is reaching all the way here in Orange County. Sounds real bad up north. I pray no one else dies or gets hurt real bad out there.
 
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Getting some fairly steady ash rain right now.
 
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Spacebar

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Text my cousin this morning and he is safe. He was helping a friend evacuate last night. Going to follow up with him later.
 
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sungahymn

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sqwarlock said:
That's not the NorCal fires, that's smoke from the Canyon Fire burning off the 91.
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Oh, really? Thanks for correcting me.

Shit, then there's multiple fires going on? I thought there was just one big one.

EDIT: Actually, I was thinking of the fire in Anaheim Hills, in SoCal. In any case, hopefully the wind will die down soon and no more fires will pop up.
 
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Bebpo

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Yeah, the So Cal one is pretty close to where I work. Everyone's keeping an eye on it in case they need to run home and evacuate.
 
Head of Vengarl

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Damn, just heard a family friend lost her house in the fire. I can't imagine how awful that must feel.

I'm in the South Bay and the air keeps getting worse. Offshore winds are blowing the smoke toward us; a huge brown cloud has been steadily hovering this way all day. The sky now has that unmistakable orange glow that happens when the air is smoky from wildfires.
 
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Got this from Twitter just now
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north end of the city is just straight up nuke style levelled. if thats where i think it is. its still pretty hard to get a bead on solid info.

jesus christ. there are some videos of cardinal newman highschool that make it out to be 100% gone as well

this is impossible to comprehend
 
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RCSI

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Bebpo said:
Yeah, the So Cal one is pretty close to where I work. Everyone's keeping an eye on it in case they need to run home and evacuate.
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I am keeping apprised of the situation for the one in So Cal, north of my area has received mandatory evacuation.
 
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Murder. She Wrote

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Disneyland has been a lot of fun today, but I do have to say the fire clouds made it a tinge apocalyptic. Oh yeah and the ash floating everywhere.

I hope everyone is safe, 0% contained as of 30 min ago is crazy.
 
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Keri

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RCSI said:
I am keeping apprised of the situation for the one in So Cal, north of my area has received mandatory evacuation.
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I live just to the north of the current evacuation area, but depending how close you are, you might want to pack a couple bags, just to be safe. It looks like the evacuation area is spreading south.
 
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RCSI

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Keri said:
I live just to the north of the current evacuation area, but depending how close you are, you might want to pack a couple bags, just to be safe. It looks like the evacuation area is spreading south.
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Already started. My Grandmother and cousin (2 miles north of myself) were told to start evacuating by 5 pm.
 
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J-Tier

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Had to drive by the fires on the 91 earlier this morning. The ash and smoke has painted everything in a dark orange. Like Mad Max post apocalypse. I've a few friends who live in the evacuation area.
 
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NihonTiger90

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Jtwo said:
Got this from Twitter just now

north end of the city is just straight up nuke style levelled. if thats where i think it is. its still pretty hard to get a bead on solid info.

jesus christ. there are some videos of cardinal newman highschool that make it out to be 100% gone as well

this is impossible to comprehend
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This is also the Coffey Park neighborhood (you can see the park in the upper left of the photo and a school in the upper right:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.476122,-122.7478497,872m/data=!3m1!1e3
 
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NihonTiger90 said:
This is also the Coffey Park neighborhood (you can see the park in the upper left of the photo and a school in the upper right:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.476122,-122.7478497,872m/data=!3m1!1e3
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Its super unbelievable. It really is such a quiet neighborhood. We're waiting to hear about a coworkers home who lived there. She definitely evacuated and is fine but we haven't heard about the house yet. Tons of people around town are posting pooled melted metal from their cars. Its so crazy.
 
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AniHawk

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fire is about four miles north of me at peters canyon in tustin. i'm just east of the evacuation line. have a bag packed just in case.
 
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The feeling here is unlike anything else. All my neighbors are outside standing around. Groups of people chillin on their roofs. The scene is wild. This is the first big disaster I've really experienced. I was alive during the 88 quake but was like a baby basically.
 
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wenis

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Anyone have the hotline for finding family members handy?

I thought I saw it earlier today.
 
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teh_pwn

"Saturated fat causes heart disease as much as Brawndo is what plants crave."
I can't imagine having a literal Hell approach your house and destroy everything you know. Stay safe all.
 
Robot Carnival

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jeez... some of those pictures looks frighteningly similar to the 2049 version of LA and surrounding areas from the new Blade Runner movie. (I just watched it last night).
 
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opticalmace

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Took 6.5 hours but I managed to get my grandparents.

Don't know for sure but their home is almost certainly burned to the ground. All they have left is one wallet, a walker, and the clothes they're wearing.

What an awful day.
 
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LaNaranja

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Fuck I really hope the OC one stops spreading into Tustin. If it keeps moving south west it will be in my neck of the woods soon.
 
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