Federal State of Emergency

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

This is just going to add to the Katrina thing. Either the Government wont do something right and people will be pissed that they screwed up again, or the Government will do things right this time and people will say that since there's more of a white/rich population there they helped but didn't help in Katrina due to the poor/black population.

How much you wanna bet?

Yeah, once it's over for a short while, I'm sure it'll pop up.

"George Bush doesn't care about black people"

No, the real black Jesus (Kanye) is always right!

Is your home in danger yet?

Wow, stay safe, looks like there is fire to the north and south, hopefully the winds die down and you get some rain.