I hope everyone out there is okay... didn't look very good on Fox News.

I'm about 10-15 miles south of there..............no signs of smoke yet

Damn fire bugs know the weather better than most, wind directions...Fuch we sure have our share of crazies. Hope everyone is Ok.

doesn't grant live down there as well ???

Andy

Last Tuesday there was a fire in the field behind my house. Burned right up to our back fence. Homeowners assoc is responsible for keeping this area trimmed. This week, I bought a gas trimmer. Like they say, if you want something done right - do it yourself.

Doesn't look like there is much trimming left to do.

When I left for work this morning it looked like a NUKE went off on the other side of the hill! Big Mushroom like cloud... scary looking! The winds are making it very difficult for the planes to be effective.

Dan in Almaden Valley probably had a good view of the smoke!

Not anymore this year......

Geez! That's scary. What was the cause?

BTW - if you need lawn tools I've got a shed full to borrow anytime!

Nothing looks very good on Fox news ............

The DJ on The Pig this morning was saying the smoke had blown as far south as Carmel, and that was a couple of hours after the fire started. Gonna be a bigun .........

The Cap'n

This is all warm and fuzzy and I'm glad you're all right but... THIS BELONGS IN THE SANDBOX!

(hope all stays well there.)

Did Fox News blame the fire on Barrack Obama?

"Media outlets are reporting firefighters are responding to a 3,000-acre wildfire in the area of Highway -17 and Summit Road. No injuries have been reported at this time. At least 15 structures have been destroyed and 190 others are threatened. Approximately 300 people have been evacuated at this time.

At this time there are road closures for Highway 17 at Summit road."

my sister teaches at the school at the top of 17 and summit road. Talked to her earlier and she said all the kids had been evacuated but the teachers had not been given the green light to leave (?)...lots of smoke there but no fire seen yet.

Hwy 17 is not closed! Summit Road at Hwy 17 is!

Caltrans Hwy 17

Type in 17 and hit enter to see the current road restrictions!

Grant is north of Santa Cruz along the coast. He shouldn't have any worries other than the commute. I'm just a little east of the smoke trail, I can see out out the window about 3 miles away. The fire is up in the hills, I don't of any 914 people in the effected area.

It's going to be a nasty fire season this year.

Thing that surprised me is lack of air attack early in the morning. Fire was raging for hours before air tankers were called in. General cluster fuc$ response from CDF. Doesn't make me feel to comfortable on the North side of the fire. I didn't see a single fire truck on 17 side moving to fire at 7:30 AM.

Scary as this area hasnt had a big fire for a long long time and we dont get winds like we have often.

Huge plume of smoke and ash over the fire. I had birds eye view this morning and it was impressive.

Actually, they blamed it on Hillary and Obama... Then they interviewed a televengalist who says that it is the sodomists... I guess they cannot decide.

I blame Al Qaeda ......bastards.....

we heard no sirens or planes until the radio news told us about a fire. looking out the back, we could see a huge plume of smoke. lucky for us, its about 5-10 miles south east and the wind is blowing south, so we are good for now.