Federal State of Emergency

Yeah sorry to hear Voll. It's pretty crazy out there from what I can tell on CNN. I'm sure the nation will help out and you guys will get shit under control, I know out here in Florida we get crazy 20,000+ acre fires every year, it'll calm down once they can start making any sort of progression.

Yeah sorry to hear Voll. It's pretty crazy out there from what I can tell on CNN. I'm sure the nation will help out and you guys will get shit under control, I know out here in Florida we get crazy 20,000+ acre fires every year, it'll calm down once they can start making any sort of progression.

Last count, we've lost about 140,000 acres at least to these. The biggest problem D3V is that all of these fires are 0% contained because it's simply not possible because of the Santa Ana winds, the wind is driving them Southwest in gusts up to 50 mph, you cannot fight that because you can't even put Air units up to drop Water/Flame Retardant, nor can you place ground forces in front of them as the fire simply moves too fast, you'd be killing your Fire Fighters.

Until the winds die down, we're pretty much completely at the mercy of Mother Nature.

Now, to mention something kinda cool, and frightening. There are reports of Tornadic activity at the fire line, because it's so hot (200ft high flames in some areas) that it's creating burning tornadoes in some spots.

Fuck yeah, Apocalypse!

Be safe, dude. It sound crazy there.

Raining pretty heavily here today.

Just as an update, we've lost over 300,000 acres (that's like 100,000 acres a day at this rate). There are ~1000 homes somewhat reliably counted as destroyed, but they haven't really even looked at tallying them, that's just from observation.

They've called in roughly 1000 additional Fire Engines nationwide and most air assets in relation to fire fighting are flying over to help, and we still have new fires popping up daily.

I think we've stepped up to 1% containment though, lol.

If anyone wanted to see a rough map of the fires in relation to my house, I added my house to a PBS Google Map of current burn zones and evacuation zones.

Edit: Nevermind, it didn't add the PBS one. Lemme try and fix it.

Still not working, so gonna screenshot and attach a picture.

It just won't let me save the PBS map and combine with mine, and I don't know anything about Google Maps to do this. /shrug

I hope right-wing Christian wackos don't start saying this is retribution for California's liberalism.

That's already been spread among the WoW's Off-Topic forum, and it would be really stupid as San Diego has long been a fairly Conservative area, partially due to the huge military presence here.

We only house the largest Naval fleet in the entire world, heh.

Edit: A picture from Wikipedia:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi....aqua.250m.jpg