Fire Photos

Here are a couple photos from the fire. These first two were at the intersection of San Marcos Blvd. and Rancho Santa Fe Dr. looking Southwest. This was Monday morning, 10/22 about 9:45am as I was driving home from an appt w/a client in San Marcos. This was the moment I realized that the fire was huge, was moving fast and was moving toward us!!! I was literally driving under that "line" in the sky w/blue to the right of me and black/grey to the left of me. But by the time I got home, it was all black/grey and very little blue visible. And that is the color the sky remained for the next several days.

This next photo was taken by a colleague who lives in Orange County. This is from his home looking across Mission Viejo lake in Irvine. Amazing photo! Says it all.

There were a couple evenings that I was coming home, driving west and the sun was like an enormous orange/fuscia glowing fireball in the sky - I had wished more than once I had my camera with me, but didn't. But here are some add'l photos online I found that showed this image and many others, if interested: http://www.flickr.com/groups/sandiegofire/pool/

It is now just sort of a typical coastal haze out there, but we did actually get some rain last night - those big fat drops that slowly, randomly drop from the sky when the humidity is high and the air just can't hold it in anymore. It was welcomed and helped tremendously to continue the containment efforts w/all fires over 50% contained and more than half of all fires in SoCal are 100%contained - yay! Now, if we can just keep it that way!