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I'm not likely going to be active or around the forums for the next few days. @_@

I'm currenly running on 4 hours sleep in the past 72 hours, have a sleepless night ahead of me, oodles of stress, and very bad headache.

The situation is this: I'm in Southern California, current firestorm capitol of the world. The Simi Valley fire (52,000 acres burned so far) is no more than 5 miles from here, and it will very likely be up into the hills above my house sometime tonight. My younger sister and I have already gotten the valuables ready to pack into the car if we need to evacuate.

If evacuation is voluntary, we've decided we're going to stay and protect the house (Much like my Dad did that last time the hills burned 15 years ago.). If it's mandatory, well, we pack up and run. =/ I'll try to keep you guys posted. (And I am taking pictures! Once I get the film developed, there will be pictures!)

~Rep Prod

Good luck! Hopefully you and your family will be safe and none of your possessions will be damaged.

Good luck

I'm in Los Angeles so the fires aren't impacting me too badly, but I've been through the Rancho Cucamonga lately and seen how bad it is around in there ... Good luck with this, Rep.

Good luck Rep. I don't exactly know about how you're feeling, that said, I do know people who were involved in the NSW bushfires recently. My uncle lived not 2km from the bushfire.

Hope you don't need to evacuate...

Even though I live in Goleta (quite a bit north of the fire, about 5 hours drive in good traffic), our entire town is shrouded in smoke and the smell of burning wood is in the air. I can hardly imagine what it must be like down there right next to the fire, but it can't be all that dissimilar from hell. I was in Kern County when the fires broke out there over the summer, and the place was charred to heck. Many were homeless, and the hotel I was staying in was burnt to a cinder (the fire struck town while I was away and the police quarantined off the area, so most of my belongings that weren't in my car were destroyed). However, corny as it may sound, we all worked hard and pulled what we could together. Heck, I even made a couple friends out of the mess.

Point being that while this is hell on earth, you will survive it as long as you plan and keep your wits about you. Seeing as you've apparently done both, good luck. That's about all I can wish you.

Thanks for the support guys ^^; It's especially heartening in light of the recent massive anti-mod sentiment. So far, so good. The air outside is nasty, but it appears the fire is moving away from my location.

... It's still gonna be a long sleepless night though x_x

]Thanks for the support guys ^^; It's especially heartening in light of the recent massive anti-mod sentiment. So far, so good. The air outside is nasty, but it appears the fire is moving away from my location.

... It's still gonna be a long sleepless night though x_xWell, at least you're alright. I for one share none of this "anti-mod sentiment" and wish you all the best.

As for the air, I invested in an air filter for the house. It works up here, but I'm not sure how much good it'll do down there. :/

Well, a friend found an image of California and the fires from space, which I took the liberty of editting a smidge to show about how far it is from here. (Well, the image is more than 24 hours old, so it's even closer than the image shows, but...)

(Warning, large image! (http://rpstudios.ian-justman.com/junk/Firesfromspace.jpg))

And that's 12 miles, not 12 meters :wink:

Good Luck

Good luck rep. Hopefully you won't need it though.

I'll keep you in my thoughts.

Good luck... Whatever is happening here, keep you and your family safe.

Don't worry... we'll still be here :)

-Drakma-

p.s. That's a big f'ing fire.... OOOOF!

I would think it would be quite impossible to protect the house from 10 mile wide walls of fire...

But then again, they do have some very fancy hose nozzles nowadays, it may just be possible.

thats a big f*cking fire, hell i bet you could roast hotdogs from 20miles out....

on a serious note, Rep stay safe and be ready for the evac order soon.

Godspeed. I hope you're safe.

Anti-mod, no...anti-mod decisions....ahh well, that's off topic.

Well, good luck either way Rep, hope that yall don't get burnt outta your home, but if worse comes to worse, the only thing that truely matters is your health and wellbeing. Be safe.

ahhh...I live in the midwest
the good ole' midwest :twisted:

ahhh...I live in the midwest
the good ole' midwest :twisted:

Yup, just the odd tornado here.

hope it all works out for ya rep,

remember Cliché Kitty and Domo Kun are with you.
http://www.tomorrowlands.org/misc/images/kitty_sml.jpg

http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~sts839/domo/domokun.jpg

~Loop

*grin* I just got back from the 'rubbernecker' hangout at that parking lot some 3 miles from the fireline. My nerves are somewhat eased, and my pictures ought to be nifty once I get the film developed ^_^

Best of luck to you... by some chance, if you might not ever get back onto the computer, could you please reveal to us who [Violet] and [Dredd] are?

Just kidding, mate. Take care of yourself.

Rep take care of yourself and good luck. Hope the fire (that's one big -- well, the mother of all fires) passes your place (and your friends' and families' places, too) by. Don't let the venting on the forums get you down. It's not personal. I think they're mad about the decisions, not at the mods. Most rationale people realize you-all are trying your best to enforce the site protocols.

Best of luck to you... by some chance, if you might not ever get back onto the computer, could you please reveal to us who [Violet] and [Dredd] are?

Just kidding, mate. Take care of yourself.

Dredd isn't around anymore. Not much anyway.

Rep, remember, your life has greater value than anything you own. If you have to, don't hessitate to evacuate, we don't need to lose you over some silly posessions.

And a side note on the anti-rep threads:

Ignore them, you don't have to prove yourself to them Just because they don't like the desicsion you made. Your job is to enforce the rules of NationStates, not please other players. If you truly and honestly think, in your heart, that you made the right choice then don't bother with those people.

-Brandon of South Florida

^kick^

Damn, that's a big motherfire!!

:lol:

Hope you come out all right Rep.

Best of luck to thee.

Well, at the moment it's burning away from here, so no crispy Reppy yet! 8)

That is good, now if it can just keep burning away from you :)

Wow.. I was wondering about you and Culebra who lives down in San Diego. I'm glad you are Ok Reploid. Please try to get some sleep. I hope you get some rain soon.

Well, at the moment it's burning away from here, so no crispy Reppy yet! 8)

Mhm... crispy Rep...

Tasty!

Be careful Rep. :cry:

-=Corinthe=-

:-?

You're not the only person I know (well, knowish... :P) who's in this situation at the moment...

The woman who writes Queen of Wands (http://www.queenofwands.net) is about 10 miles from the fires as well...

*sighs*

If it was started deliberately, then whoever did it is a horrible bastard...

:-?

You're not the only person I know (well, knowish... :P) who's in this situation at the moment...

The woman who writes Queen of Wands (http://www.queenofwands.net) is about 10 miles from the fires as well...

*sighs*

If it was started deliberately, then whoever did it is a horrible bastard...


I heard that some guy was out hunting and got lost, so he lit a big signal fire and it got out of control, but that he was being charged with manslaughter

Good luck to ya and I hope you don't have to evac.

Personally I live in Orange Country (under that big white blob south of Rep :P) and we have had some freaky weather here recently (it looked like sunset all day saturday :shock:) although there wasn't much ash coming down today. Not actually close to the fires, though, so no chance of evacuation.

Urk... that thing looked like it was moving away from here, but at last check it's coming south again x_x

Reppie's sleep score: Approximately 12 hours sleep since Saturday!

Fingers crossed for you all.

http://www.kluiversrecycling.nl/img/blad2.jpg

saw a picture of the fire in the news paper this morning...
good luck! hope everything will be okay over there..

Very good news at the moment! The weather has shifted to an on-shore flow, so the humidity is rising and temperatures are dropping. The wind is still whipping the fires up good, but I think I'm in the clear now. (Granted, my paranoia is still keeping me wide awake, and the Simi fire could still burn back around the mountain, but... eh, we shall see.)

Oh yeah, the totals as of the last news report I saw on the SoCal fires:

Total acreage burned: Over 600,000 acres
Total fatalities: 20 (including one fireman =/)
Total homes lost: 1,552.
Total damage: Over US$2 billion

I'm just glad you are ok Reploid. My heart goes out to all the victims.

All of our prayers and hopes are with you in your struggle. My family has fought lots of hurricanes in South Florida. One time our house was almost eaten up by the ocean. But hurricanes go away fast. May you be safe.

Damn ... I hope nothing terrible happens to you, Rep. If it gets your house, you can have my truck to sleep in!

I think I'm in the clear. The Simi fire is 40% contained, there's a chance of rain over the weekend, the humidity is up and the temperatures are down!

Current SoCal fire stats:

7 fires out of control
Total acreage burned: 728,000
Total homes lost: 2,600
Total fatalities: 20
Total # of firemen on the lines: Over 11,000

Wow.

Well, the sky's been free of ash for the last couple days here. I know wasn't the same fire that was causing you problems that was giving us an early xmas here, but I hope it's a sign for the better ;)

Glad to hear you're ok Rep

IT'S RAINING!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Oyie, I'm acting like a n00b with all those smilies! :oops:

I was in Calafornia last year, at Yosemity National Park, smoke and smoke everywhere, it was impossible to inhale anything but smoke.

I live up in Massachustets, all we get up here are snow storms and huricanes.

I hope you get out of this allive Rep.

Not to go gravedigging, but this post is relevant to this thread.

Yes, the fires are out, no, my house did not burn down, and yes, the first batch of pictures are uploaded!

http://rpstudios.ian-justman.com/junk/Firepics/

Sadly, the pics I took at night of the ridge above the house all backlit orange and from the Walmart parking lot at around midnight didn't come out =< In about a month, I'm going to be going up the coast, which I'm told is largely blackened all the way around Simi Valley and through Ventura. I intend to get some pictures of the burn area just to show how big this fragging thing was. ^_^

~Rep

congrats on surviving it Rep,

man California cannot get a break,
last month it was on fire this month it is flooded,
next week it will be frozen solid.

IT'S RAINING!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Oyie, I'm acting like a n00b with all those smilies! :oops:
MEN!
hallelujah**
ITS Raining MEN
AMEN, ,

couldnt help it.lol

congrats on surviving it Rep,

man California cannot get a break,
last month it was on fire this month it is flooded,
next week it will be frozen solid.
After that, I think it's about time we cecede, neh?

congrats on surviving it Rep,

man California cannot get a break,
last month it was on fire this month it is flooded,
next week it will be frozen solid.
After that, I think it's about time we cecede, neh?

Yes, and break off from the rest of the US...

... to go hang with Hawaii
:wink:

either that or get Lex Luthor to hijack a couple of Nukes and seperate CA from teh rest of the US,

I actually think it woudl be funny if a state tried to seceed from teh Union today, bet the UN woudl love to send Peace Keeping troops in, or should they dcide to suport them send in Defense troops.

Did WalMart burn down? :twisted:

Wow, those pictures are fierce...pretty surreal for you, I'd bet. I'm sincerely glad you and your family made it through safely.

Thanks for posting the pics; viewing those images really adds some perspective to the news reports we've all been hearing.

Good pictures, I can almost smell the smoke.
I hope this is the last of it.
Did you dig trenches around your place, or keep it soaked, or what?

Good pictures, I can almost smell the smoke.
I hope this is the last of it.
Did you dig trenches around your place, or keep it soaked, or what?

Thats a large fire :shock:

No, the Walmart didn't burn down =p

And luckily, at it's closest approach to the house (about two miles), the wind shifted or something and it bypassed my immediate area, instead moving up into the Newhall pass. A day or two later, the weather changed and we got rain @_@

If we have a really wet winter, the damage from these fires isn't over =/ It won't take too terribly much rainfall to trigger mudslides- especially up in the mountains. Luckily, I don't have to worry about that!

2 miles!
2 close
2 contemplate.

Are you all well? No respiratory trouble?