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So bloody much has happened…
Aug. 26th, 2020 12:02 pmSo bloody much has happened…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been three months since I’ve done any posting here. Life happens. You would think that with quarantining at home that I’d have plenty of time to post & yet it’s been horrifically busy.
I’m currently sitting in the kitchen of friends; we’ve been evacuated for the past week. Wild fires are still burning across much of Northern California. A little over a week ago we had a thunderstorm, something highly unusual for this time of year. Northern California simply does not get rain in July or August. There were multiple lightning strikes, multiple very loud claps of thunder. It was followed by short burst of rain & then, nothing.
Or so it seemed.
I should have known better. There were many many lightning strikes over the course of Sunday, the bulk of them not with an earshot. Evacuation of our area was ordered by Tuesday evening at around seven. I spent the next several hours packing up essentials to evacuate & arguing with LJ about evacuation. Sensing mid afternoon that we might have to flee, I had already packed a bag with clothing for a week, as well as all my meds & they were in the garage next to the door.
The county had sent out an emergency alert for all residents north of the Russian River & south of Stewart’s point Road to evacuate. We live right at the bend in the river so the river is actually both north and south of us, But our section is contiguous with the north side of the river, so it was absolutely clear to me that we were mandated to leave. My husband didn’t see it that way. Eventually I won out, when he realized I wasn’t going to take no for an answer. The roads in our area are narrow and tortuous. Exit from or area, especially if everyone is leaving all at once, is a cluster fuck, so the county authorities if they are concerned about the possibility of a disaster tend to issue warnings early (actually, a good thing in my book).
The second I was clear we were having to leave a checked in with friends of mine in Santa Rosa & they had room for us and all three of the dogs. Amen! Al & Dan are old friends, with two canids of their own. They’ve been personally affected by the fire storms that happened here. Their last home, recently sold, was one of two in their subdivision that survived the tubs fire three years ago. Even though their home survived, they were out of it for almost 2 months, Secondary to all the ash and debris from the fire all around them.
For reasons I find somewhat frustrating, the local authorities as well as the state have been referring to all the fires across Sonoma and Napa Counties, now extending up in to Lake county as a single blaze, because they all started simultaneously from the same lightening storm. All the published autistics have been from the one lumped together fire. The portion of it that was threatening our home was the Walbridge fire & finding out how much containment was on that was like pulling teeth. Last night we were informed we could go home, but as LJ’s car is at the mechanic’s till this afternoon we’re still in Santa Rosa. Our tenants called last night when they got home to say that all was well, that other than the plants needing water everything was fine.
My stress level is down. Now all I have to worry about is the pandemic.
And the upcoming elections.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been three months since I’ve done any posting here. Life happens. You would think that with quarantining at home that I’d have plenty of time to post & yet it’s been horrifically busy.
I’m currently sitting in the kitchen of friends; we’ve been evacuated for the past week. Wild fires are still burning across much of Northern California. A little over a week ago we had a thunderstorm, something highly unusual for this time of year. Northern California simply does not get rain in July or August. There were multiple lightning strikes, multiple very loud claps of thunder. It was followed by short burst of rain & then, nothing.
Or so it seemed.
I should have known better. There were many many lightning strikes over the course of Sunday, the bulk of them not with an earshot. Evacuation of our area was ordered by Tuesday evening at around seven. I spent the next several hours packing up essentials to evacuate & arguing with LJ about evacuation. Sensing mid afternoon that we might have to flee, I had already packed a bag with clothing for a week, as well as all my meds & they were in the garage next to the door.
The county had sent out an emergency alert for all residents north of the Russian River & south of Stewart’s point Road to evacuate. We live right at the bend in the river so the river is actually both north and south of us, But our section is contiguous with the north side of the river, so it was absolutely clear to me that we were mandated to leave. My husband didn’t see it that way. Eventually I won out, when he realized I wasn’t going to take no for an answer. The roads in our area are narrow and tortuous. Exit from or area, especially if everyone is leaving all at once, is a cluster fuck, so the county authorities if they are concerned about the possibility of a disaster tend to issue warnings early (actually, a good thing in my book).
The second I was clear we were having to leave a checked in with friends of mine in Santa Rosa & they had room for us and all three of the dogs. Amen! Al & Dan are old friends, with two canids of their own. They’ve been personally affected by the fire storms that happened here. Their last home, recently sold, was one of two in their subdivision that survived the tubs fire three years ago. Even though their home survived, they were out of it for almost 2 months, Secondary to all the ash and debris from the fire all around them.
For reasons I find somewhat frustrating, the local authorities as well as the state have been referring to all the fires across Sonoma and Napa Counties, now extending up in to Lake county as a single blaze, because they all started simultaneously from the same lightening storm. All the published autistics have been from the one lumped together fire. The portion of it that was threatening our home was the Walbridge fire & finding out how much containment was on that was like pulling teeth. Last night we were informed we could go home, but as LJ’s car is at the mechanic’s till this afternoon we’re still in Santa Rosa. Our tenants called last night when they got home to say that all was well, that other than the plants needing water everything was fine.
My stress level is down. Now all I have to worry about is the pandemic.
And the upcoming elections.
