Well, I thought it was funny... ;)
Let's see. I live in the North County area (right around Del Mar). My Brother and his family live in South County (Chula Vista, Eastlake specifically). Sister number one lives kinda middle-south (Spring Valley). Sister number two lives kinda middle-west (Clairmont). Mother lives out in the boondocks of North Lakeside (with her horses and dogs).
At this time me, my brother and family, and sister number one and family, are all crashed at sister number two's house (with her family), along with a friend of theirs who live just east of 15 in Rancho Bernardo (a really bad spot). It's "cozy". Feels like a typical holiday actually. We're spread all over the county and somehow managed to get 3 out of 5 of us in evacuation areas. That's not to say we're unlucky, but to indicate just what percentage of the county is inside some sort of mandatory evacuation zone. Strangely (see! I didn't say it was funny), my mom's place is still clear of smoke and fire...
Fortunately, my other brother just moved this last year from the Canyon Country area up in north LA (where there's a huge fire). That would have just about been the trifecta!
They're also being *very* progressive with the evacuations. They learned from the Cedar fires 4 years ago that if you wait too long, you end up with half of your emergency folks dealing with rescuing people in the areas directly in front of the fire and can't put enough effort into fighting the fire. It's a smart thing to do, but man is it a pain in the butt.
I think one of the more annoying aspects of all of this is the way the news is handling it. I know that they've got to report on the fire, but it just seems like they put so much effort into getting people "on scene" with pictures of burning hillsides and homes and not nearly enough into actually informing people of precisely where the fires are. You can't tell from pictures of a burning hillside or closeups of burning homes where those are, and the graphics and maps they're putting up are horrible. Huge "burn areas" that aren't where the fire is, but where it has been and might be. It's just amazing to me that in this day of instant information, no one can spend a bit of effort coming up with a googlemap style thingie with current up to date information about where exactly flames are, perhaps actually showing us on said map where the scene they're showing us on TV is. Right now, we're looking at stuff and trying to puzzle out how close that is to this person's home, or that person's home. Maps would help. Maps with something more then a fire icon kinda located somewhere within a 10 mile radius of where the actual fire is would be even better...
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