又着起火来了。一下飞机就是烟味,天的颜色比几年前的昏天黑地可差远了,只是重度污染。血色黄昏倒是真的。也可以晚回来几天的,机票很容易改,因为南加的火。公司也关了,空气质量太差。但我都没往心里去。
总觉着火离我远着呢,南加山火是常事儿。机场回家的shuttle里听同车的打电话,嘱咐撤离时从家里带什么东西走,那时才觉着火是不远了。听说紧邻的一个区开始强行疏散,这才想起应当看电视,又没有电视看,又想起收音机,果然都在讲这件事。我们这个县疏散的区域覆盖有五十多万人,附近的一个体育馆现在有一万多人了,要是都疏散了大家可去哪儿呢?刚进到家时就把开着的窗关了,现在却也有隐隐的烟味,门外的烟味可是更重了。可我还是不能有紧迫感,真是无知者无畏。
如果疏散到我们这里应当准备什么呢?想来想去,又对着网上的单子看,有用的只有睡袋,水,零食,几件换洗衣服,现金,证件,一两本书,又看了下车还有大半箱汽油。手电我没有,便携收音机也没有,车里的坏了一直也没修。别的真没什么了。单子里还提了照片,那几鞋盒的照片真值得麻烦么?当然到时放到车里也不费什么事,免得后悔。我再想不起还有什么非拿走不可的东西了,原来这个家是拔脚就可以离开的,那么多东西没几样必需。What a relief!
- Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
我今儿个看报纸,说史翠珊她们家附近很危险,原来浮生和这些人都是邻居啊。啧,啧。
浮生注意个人安全,不要等火着到窗下才走。
还以为你会有时间南巡呢。
- Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
qinggang wrote:
我今儿个看报纸,说史翠珊她们家附近很危险,原来浮生和这些人都是邻居啊。啧,啧。
嘿嘿,这可是远邻。南加有很多地方同时着火,据说因为Santa Ana带来的干热风。谢青冈关心。 - posted on 10/23/2007
from nytimes.com
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 — More than a quarter of a million people were urged to flee their homes on Monday as wildfires ravaged Southern California for a second day, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and charring swaths of scrub and forestland.
The fires, a Hydra with at least 15 separate burns in seven counties fed by gale-force winds, burned some 267,000 acres from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. Engines and firefighters from as far as Nevada and Arizona were summoned as resources were stretched to the limit.
Houses burned with no firefighters in sight as emergency crews on the ground and in the air struggled to keep up with shifting wind that fanned new fires and made others recede and reignite.
Officials marveled that there had been just one death, in a fire in southeastern San Diego County on Sunday that also injured several people, including four firefighters. [At least 16 firefighters and 25 others have been reported injured since Sunday, according to The Associated Press.]
Meanwhile, thousands of residents remained just one step ahead of the flames.
His face smudged with ash, Bruce Gallagher fled in a motor home as flames approached his house in Ramona, San Diego County. He roamed the parking lot of a mall in Escondido, carrying two large plastic bottles in search of water.
“I have a feeling it’s probably gone,” Mr. Gallagher said of his home.
About 1,500 National Guard troops, including 200 diverted from the border, were deployed to help with evacuation and crowd control, mostly in the San Diego area, which appeared to be the hardest hit.
There, seven fires intensified and forced the largest evacuation ever in San Diego County, including entire towns like Ramona and Rancho Santa Fe in the rustic northern stretches. A total of 250,000 people were urged to evacuate.
Nearly 600 homes and 100 commercial buildings have burned in Southern California, most in San Diego County. Late Monday, about 15,100 were considered threatened.
State emergency officials said they feared that the fires, devouring some of the thickest and driest brush in years, could surpass the destruction of 2003, when California experienced its worst fire season on record.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had declared a state of emergency in seven counties on Sunday, said President Bush had called to offer federal assistance with the blazes, which could take several days to extinguish. [Mr. Bush ordered federal aid to the region early this morning, The A.P. reported.]
In San Diego, some worry the flames will advance from inland mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
“This is a major emergency,” said Ron Roberts, chairman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. “The speed with which these fires are moving, because of the wind, they are probably unlike anything we’ve seen before.”
Thousands of uprooted people in San Diego County descended on Qualcomm Stadium near downtown and the Del Mar Fairgrounds north of the city, both of which opened as emergency shelters, while other people jammed freeways or made desperate bids to save their homes with garden hoses.
San Diego is particularly haunted by wildfires. The worst one in state history burned nearly 750,000 acres in 2003, destroyed 3,600 homes and other buildings, and killed 24 people across Southern California, with much of the damage and more than a dozen of the deaths in San Diego County.
Officials there said those memories prompted swift action this time as the latest fire burned in much of the same area and same direction as 2003.
The San Diego Wild Animal Park, a major tourist draw, was closed and the animals were moved to safer quarters while owners of horses throughout northern San Diego also rushed to save their animals.
Because of the fires’ erratic nature, state officials had difficulty compiling accurate data on the scope of the damage or progress in controlling them. Just as state officials at a midmorning news conference in Malibu were declaring a fire in suburban Los Angeles the state’s top priority, San Diego officials were issuing sweeping evacuation orders and television showed images of scores of buildings burning in a remote area of Los Angeles.
The hot, gusting winds, not expected to let up until late Tuesday, at times grounded fire-fighting airplanes, which are pivotal for their ability to dump tremendous amounts of water and fire retardant.
“We have to just pray the wind slows down because the wind is the No. 1 enemy in the dry weather,” Mr. Schwarzenegger said in Malibu, where a large fire destroyed landmarks Sunday and flared anew after dying down somewhat overnight.
Some of the fires appeared to have been started by downed power lines, but a few were thought to have been caused by arson.
Brush and small trees burned in most cases, but firefighters faced a difficult problem northeast of Los Angeles at the Lake Arrowhead resort, where a forest fire erupted early in the afternoon and added to the plume of smoke hanging over most of the region. Towers of flame tore through houses and other structures there, and water-dropping aircraft did not arrive for a few hours as they fought a larger fire 70 miles away in heavily populated Santa Clarita Valley, a typical dilemma firefighters faced.
Scenes of residents taking matters into their own hands played out as some fires burned for long periods without a firefighter in sight.
Dozens of men, women and children in Canyon Country, north of Los Angeles, grabbed shovels and garden hoses and fought flames creeping up a canyon within 50 feet of their homes.
About seven children and young teenagers worked in tandem with their parents as the flames approached their back fences.
“That was hot!” said Steven Driedger, 14, as he examined his scratched legs for signs of a burn. “But I’m fine.”
Steven’s mother, Carolyn Driedger, said the family, along with their neighbors, had been battling the blaze since 4 a.m.
“Our neighborhood has really come together,” Ms. Driedger said, as a firefighting crew finally pulled up in the late morning. “We had to. These are the first official firefighters we’ve seen.”
In some of the day’s only good news, firefighters made significant progress in surrounding a fire in Orange County without a single home lost.
- Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
着这么多地方啊。
liaokang,lao fang,lucy 不都在CA么?情况如何? - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
浮生赶快收拾金银细软,没地方放的,寄到我家保管也成。 - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
How about ah-San? and Maya?
Stay safe. - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
qinggang wrote:
浮生赶快收拾金银细软,没地方放的,寄到我家保管也成。
青岗,不是我说你,瞧你那点出息.没志气.你应该这么说:
浮生,金银细软咱不要了好么,火大了,来我家!
- Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
我有时会这么想:如果真的一把火烧了一切,那会好解放好轻松啊,只要银行里还有点钱。重新开始生活,重新设计人生,一张白纸,能画出什么来着?
当然是想想而已,不是求火。;) 只不过天无绝人之路也。
真的烧了,就浮到咖啡里继续生吧。;) - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
纯属个人视角 wrote:
qinggang wrote:青岗,不是我说你,瞧你那点出息.没志气.你应该这么说:
浮生赶快收拾金银细软,没地方放的,寄到我家保管也成。
浮生,金银细软咱不要了好么,火大了,来我家!
请问阁下是谁的马甲啊?
浮生是漂亮mm,要是真按你的思路来,那不是分明让加州的火烧到我家嘛。 - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
纯属个人视角=阶级异己分子
曾用名:小赵~,就事论事,王木匠,等. - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
门后的泡菜坛真的不要了么? :-)
浮生 wrote:
如果疏散到我们这里应当准备什么呢?想来想去,又对着网上的单子看,有用的只有睡袋,水,零食,几件换洗衣服,现金,证件,一两本书,又看了下车还有大半箱汽油。手电我没有,便携收音机也没有,车里的坏了一直也没修。别的真没什么了。单子里还提了照片,那几鞋盒的照片真值得麻烦么?当然到时放到车里也不费什么事,免得后悔。我再想不起还有什么非拿走不可的东西了,原来这个家是拔脚就可以离开的,那么多东西没几样必需。What a relief! - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
今天我给自己鼓个掌。
玛姐在另条线上夸我写字有进步,我却觉得自己审美直觉有进步,我第一感觉这个马甲就是你。:)
好久不见了呀。
干嘛老换马甲,弄得大灰狼似的,我们这些小红帽都害怕。 - posted on 10/23/2007
The only thing that can not be burned is memory.:-)
If you live in a risky area, it's not a bad idea to think about evacuation. For example, given the area you live (which is close to that of mine, I suppose), always make sure you have enough gas in your car to drive 2 hours at a speed of 25 mph. That's a drive to West Virginia in a slow-moving traffic. Store an extra 2 gals of gas in your garage. When there is an emergency, you will find gas stations either shut down or having a very long line.
Always store drinking water, canned food, sleeping bags/blankets, spare clothes, flash lights, a tool-box, battery-powered radio, a tent, and other camping-gear, in an easily accessible area in your garage. (Ideally, one should put all these items in his trunk, but most people probably do not have space for that all the time).
Always carry $200 worth of cash with you, in case credit card transaction is suspended or unavailable.
touche wrote:
我有时会这么想:如果真的一把火烧了一切,那会好解放好轻松啊,只要银行里还有点钱。重新开始生活,重新设计人生,一张白纸,能画出什么来着?
当然是想想而已,不是求火。;) 只不过天无绝人之路也。
真的烧了,就浮到咖啡里继续生吧。;) - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/23/2007
恩,我们家要是着火了,我唯一心疼的就是我的书,我的碟,还有我的钢琴。
山火严重吗?我不看电视不看报纸,啥也不知道。向浮生问好! - posted on 10/23/2007
比想象的严重,布什已经declare federal emergency for seven counties. 希望南加的朋友平安无事。
Strong Winds, High Temperatures
Intensify Sweeping California Fires
Associated Press
October 23, 2007 1:39 p.m.
SAN DIEGO -- Thousands more residents were ordered to evacuate their homes Tuesday, bringing the number of people chased away by the wind-whipped flames that have engulfed Southern California to at least 300,000.
By day three, the dozen wildfires had burned 1,200 homes and businesses and set 245,957 acres -- 384 square miles -- ablaze, and the destruction may only be the start for the region. Tuesday's forecast called for hotter temperatures and more stronger Santa Ana gusts.
The blazes bedeviled firefighters as walls of flame whipped from mountain passes to the edges of the state's celebrated coastline, spreading so quickly that even hotels serving as temporary shelters for evacuees had to be evacuated. As the fires spread, most out of control, smaller blazes were merging into larger, more fearsome ones. Evacuations were being announced in one community after another as firefighters found themselves overwhelmed by gale-force Santa Ana winds, some gusting to 70 miles per hour.
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders pleaded with residents to stay off cell phones so that emergency crews could do their work. At least 274,000 homes -- about 300,000 people -- were asked to clear out in San Diego County alone, he said. Officials cautioned that more evacuations could be necessary, as the fires carved a path Tuesday toward populated areas.
"Please stay at home today if you can," he said. "Stay off the freeways. Allow our emergency vehicles and people needing to evacuate to move around freely."
President Bush declared a federal emergency for seven counties, a move that will speed disaster-relief efforts. He also sent federal disaster officials to California. He did not plan to visit the area himself, fearing his visit would detract from firefighting efforts.
"All of us across this nation are concerned for the families who have lost their homes and the many families who have been evacuated from their homes," Mr. Bush said Tuesday. "We send the help of the federal government."
Fire crews and fleeing residents described desperate conditions that were sure to get worse. Temperatures across Southern California were about 10 degrees above average and were expected to approach 100 degrees Tuesday in Orange and San Diego counties.
Deputies arrested two men for looting in the community of Ramona, and there were a handful of other looting cases reported, said San Diego Sheriff's Lt. Mike McClain.
The fires were exploding and shooting embers in all directions, preventing crews from forming traditional fire lines and severely limiting aerial bombardment, officials said.
"Lifesaving is our priority. Getting people out from in front of the fire -- those have been our priorities," said Capt. Don Camp, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Thousands of residents sought shelter at fairgrounds, schools and community centers. The largest gathering was at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, where up to 10,000 evacuees anxiously watched the stadium's television sets, hoping for a glimpse of their neighborhood on the local news. Sanders pleaded for donations of blankets, cots, pillows and food for the people staying there, and officials said more people were expected to arrive Tuesday.
San Diego County was ablaze from its rural north to its border region with Mexico, where the wildfires that started Sunday claimed their only fatality to date: Thomas Varshock, 52 years old, of Tecate, a town on the U.S. side of the border southeast of San Diego. His body was found Sunday afternoon, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office said.
Wildfires continue to sweep through the Malibu Hills in California. Video courtesy of Reuters.
Forty-two people were injured, 16 of them firefighters.
In San Diego County, public schools were closed, as were campuses at the University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University.
The scope of the infernos was immense and was reminiscent of the blazes that tore through Southern California four years ago this month, killing 22 and destroying 3,640 homes. The fires have been made worse by fierce Santa Ana winds. The winds -- which sweep through Southern California's canyons in fall and winter -- are stronger than normal, turning already parched scrubland into tinder. They generated walls of flame that bore down on housing developments in a wide swath.
East of Los Angeles, a two-front fire destroyed at least 160 homes in the Lake Arrowhead area, the same mountain resort community where hundreds of homes were lost four years earlier. One of the blazes, near Green Valley Lake, was so intense that firefighters were forced to pull back. It jumped Highway 18 and was headed toward the community of Running Springs, said Steve Lowe, a fire information officer with the San Bernardino National Forest.
Touring an evacuee camp at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged to do everything in his power to assist the firefighting effort and help those who have lost their homes.
"I will be relentless all the way through this," Mr. Schwarzenegger said.
Copyright © 2007 Associated Press - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/24/2007
谢各位。也希望其他南加的朋友安好。
touche wrote:
我有时会这么想:如果真的一把火烧了一切,那会好解放好轻松啊,只要银行里还有点钱。
我有时也这样想,不过不能光烧我家,得把我公司也烧了。算了,这一轮错过了,明天乖乖上班去。
qinggang wrote:
今天我给自己鼓个掌。
青冈我得给你鼓个倒掌,人视角的马甲都穿旧了你才认出来啊。 - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/24/2007
谢谢!我们这几位都住在北加州, 离大火有点远!
浮生mm保重!
qinggang wrote:
着这么多地方啊。
liaokang,lao fang,lucy 不都在CA么?情况如何? - posted on 10/24/2007
我家没事。转两段关于 global warming 的:
San Francisco Chronicle
M&R: Southern California blazes add to global warming
Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
According to the California Air Resources Board, the blazes raging from Malibu to the Mexican border will send some 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, plus 200,000 tons of methane and nitrous oxide.
That output of global warming gases is equal to what 440,000 cars would pump into the atmosphere in a year, said Richard Bode, chief of the Air Resources Board's emissions inventory branch.
"In terms of global warming, it is a sizable chunk," Bode said. "But you have to remember that overall, the state puts out about 470 million tons of gases every year - so it's about a half a percent" of California's yearly contribution to global catastrophe. - posted on 10/24/2007
今早上班路上听收音机,meteorologist 说因为wind pattern shift,南加的smoke明天或者后天就会抵达我们这里,a couple hazy days ahead.
CA already has one of the most stringent CO2 emission restrictions. Yet for those who have doubts about role CO2 plays in global warming, keep in mind its effect can be offset sometimes. Just because it doesn't always show up in statistics or computer models doesn't mean it's nonexistent.
"Volcanoes -- when they erupt and inject millions of tons of fine particulate material into the stratosphere (mostly sulfate aerosols) -- have also cooled large regions of the globe. Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in 1991 and cooled most of the Earth for a few years, erasing for a short time roughly half of the global warming that took place during the entire 20th century." (“Thinking Big on Global Warming”, FRED C. IKLE AND LOWELL WOOD, October 15, 2007)
- Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/24/2007
浮生 wrote:
青冈我得给你鼓个倒掌,人视角的马甲都穿旧了你才认出来啊。
哈哈,浮生这么厉害?还有谁有哪个马甲,给扫扫盲。
我要是也弄个马甲穿穿,你会认出来吗?阿姗呢?Lucy?
- Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/24/2007
玛雅,你家那里是不是也着火了?我看 Magic Mountain 那边也有火呢。 - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/24/2007
浮生 wrote:
又着起火来了。一下飞机就是烟味,天的颜色比几年前的昏天黑地可差远了,只是重度污染。血色黄昏倒是真的。也可以晚回来几天的,机票很容易改,因为南加的火。公司也关了,空气质量太差。但我都没往心里去。
我们这好像没那么厉害,虽然附近山上也有火。据说空气质量差(我是没闻出来),禁止一切室外活动,结果两天没让游泳了,天还特热,怪难受的。反正也得呼吸空气,在岸上和在水里不都一样?唉! - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/25/2007
guanzhong 你在哪里?咱们还没吃饭呢。我这里也是很热,燥热,空气有烧火的味道。天海一片,分不清了。 - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/25/2007
还在蔓延?各位住加州的朋友请保重。 - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/25/2007
本人后天飞往灾区. - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/25/2007
会的! 我今天又看到了一条蛇:)
moab wrote:
哈哈,浮生这么厉害?还有谁有哪个马甲,给扫扫盲。
我要是也弄个马甲穿穿,你会认出来吗?阿姗呢?Lucy?
- Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/25/2007
你还是小心点儿,不要看多了就大意。 - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/25/2007
因为电脑中病毒,有段时间没上网,在此问好浮生及其他在南加的朋友,保重! - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/25/2007
谢大家关心。我不在加州,没有什么细软,根本无牵挂。
野火,我最喜欢,火山更好。只不过,美国现在是天灾人祸,一天不如一天,让我担忧,而中国是一天天往好的方向走。
但是中国的污染,让我每天都鼻子过敏,痛苦不堪。运动时间减少,是最大的问题。 - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 10/27/2007
阿姗 wrote:
guanzhong 你在哪里?咱们还没吃饭呢。我这里也是很热,燥热,空气有烧火的味道。天海一片,分不清了。
谢谢啊山想着,你们还边也热?总羡慕你们海边比我这凉快。我在洛杉矶东面疑点,还好,就是空气里有烟味。今天终于可以游泳了,痛快!:-) - Re: 野火好像不远了posted on 11/01/2007
愿望是好的也不现实吧。
这里反而少了些烟火气。
断壁残垣满地碎琉璃辞。
touche wrote:
真的烧了,就浮到咖啡里继续生吧。;)
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