I arrived home and the fires STILL are lapping at my door!
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These fires must be something! I'm stuck in Oakland, California due to the shut down of the SoCal airports and I can't get home. Apparently the Simi Valley fire is only a couple of miles from my door and I can't get good updates here in Oakland.
If anyone can post some info as to the exact location of the Simi Valley fire, please do my wife and I are kinda nervous about coming home to find our house on fire. We are going to try to get on a flight this afternoon and get home but we are basically in the dark with where and how the fire is heading in Simi Valley.
Thanks in anticipation!
Michael
If anyone can post some info as to the exact location of the Simi Valley fire, please do my wife and I are kinda nervous about coming home to find our house on fire. We are going to try to get on a flight this afternoon and get home but we are basically in the dark with where and how the fire is heading in Simi Valley.
Thanks in anticipation!
Michael
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Hope this link answers your questions. Good luck, and I'll pray that your house is not affected.
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Nuck -- I know the 118 is closed right near my house and I'm north of the 118. I just don't know what's happening exactly.
Thanks again everyone,
Michael
The link gives a phone number to call for general fire information and there are other links at the bottom of the page that list fire maps of the area.
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
News Flash:
Man is lifted by helicopter at the last moment as he narrowly escapes harms way. the helicopter barely had enough power to lift the man and his large suitcase he had strapped to himself that he said he could not part with.. All are safe and out of harms way!
My next thought is that the houses are generally insured...it is the pictures (printed/digital) that can't be replaced that I feel bad for people for (memories fade after awhile, but photos help bring them back).....TVs, etc, can all be easily replaced.
Then, for numismatic interests, I wonder......
We have coins, many of us slab them to authenticate and preserve them. We even put them in plastic boxes to store and preserve them (and some, like me, put them in safes and safety deposit boxes).
So, if the fires hit, and hit hot enough, do you just figure to kiss your coins goodbye? Would it be better for raw coins that may be able to have soot, ashes, etc, removed (can that be safely removed? I don't know), or would it be better to have them slabbed with the plastics?
I would think that if the slab melted on the coin, the coin would be practically worthless.
Due to these fires, will people lose not only their houses and stuff that we expect, but also years of numismatic history?
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I would assume so. Newport Beach is far from any immediate fire danger.
You wouldn't feel sorry if those were poor people's homes it was heading towards?
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In 1968, my family lost everything in a house fire. Only two years after loosing my father, I was an eight year old boy with nothing but the clothes on my back.
Material possesions can be replaced. Don't put it off. Tell your loved ones how much they mean to you today.
It is my sincere hope and prayer that all is well with you and your's.
Forbid it, Almighty God!
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morning. I sent the family on there way to my parrents house and stayed as long as I could. We
have been without power and phone for over 24 hours now. Yesterday and last night there was
no way in or out of our area as all the high ways were closed. This morning the CHP opened the
west bound lanes for evacuees. We made it out..... I have several friends that have lost there homes.
What a helpless feeling this is. There are so many fires burning in the San Diego county area and
not enough personnel to fight them. Driving down the free way was like driving through a war zone.
If it wasn't burning on both sides of me it was charged black, Even the center medium was burnt.
The smoke was so thick you could not have the AC on and could only see about 50 yards ahead .
I could not help but tear up as I drove past destroyed homes and miles of charged land. 13 lives
have already been lost here in San Diego county and hundreds of homes. Keep us in your prayers.
Onlyroosies
But with the night, supersoakers and helicopters can't fly and I'm afraid the winds might change as well. I have almost everything packed that I need so if I am evacuated it should be okay.
I could careless about the house ect -- material possessions -- but the coins are packed and are ready to go.
I trying to stay in here as long as possible -- a/k/a until I'm told to go.
If you don't hear from me for awhile it means I was evacuated and can't get to a computer. Otherwise I will update everyone as I endure this situation.
Wow -- a heart attack 3 weeks ago and now this -- someone really doesn't like me.
Michael
Stay safe, Michael.
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
With a heart attack 3 weeks ago - you gotta stay way cool and collected - I hope you do, and I wish you well!
Marc
I hope everything works out for you and your family. Heck of year you are having. My prayers are with you guys!
Tbig
Michael, don't be foolish. Find a place to stay and take care of yourself!
You need this aggrevation like a hole in the head,get to a safe area with your possessions,you dont need another heart attack.
Hope you folks stay safe.
A friend of mine in the LA sent me about 20 photos he took from his front yard. Here's one showing teh fire making its way over the mountain.
The fire is still about a mile away and I was able to talk to a Fire and Rescue expert near my house and apparently my development is no immenient danger. There's an area around my development that has been cleared for new houses that has created a natural defense line with no vegatation to burn. And there's no plan to evacuate tonight, however, another community in my development is right up against the mountain and they are being taken out of their 1-2 million dollar homes. Sometimes it's good to be in the cheap seats!
The smoke is bad, the smell is bad, and I'm just trying to stay indoors right now.
onlyroosies -- I know what you're going through. Goodluck to you and your family. I hope all turns out well for you and for me. These fires have done too much harm already. Keep us updated as well with your situation.
Michael
Geoman, nice snow. Snow in our forecast for the next 10 days although the mountain tops are already getting it. The Yellowstone National Park fire in 1988 was not put out until it was covered with snow. What is the chance it will snow in Southern California?
<< <i>These fires must be something! I'm stuck in Oakland, California due to the shut down of the SoCal airports and I can't get home. Apparently the Simi Valley fire is only a couple of miles from my door and I can't get good updates here in Oakland.
If anyone can post some info as to the exact location of the Simi Valley fire, please do my wife and I are kinda nervous about coming home to find our house on fire. We are going to try to get on a flight this afternoon and get home but we are basically in the dark with where and how the fire is heading in Simi Valley.
Thanks in anticipation!
Michael >>
Address list of houses that have burned
http://www.scrippsranch.org/special/fire_address_list.asp
I am hoping by tonight we will have a better idea of what the real danger is or isn't (hopefully)
My car is packed and I'm ready to roll if we are told to evacuate, but I don't think it's going to happen.
Michael
uh . . . let's don't wish for hurricanes . . .
Glad to hear things are better Michael.
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know quite a few people in the Santa Clarita Valley and the north end of Chatsworth that I have not been able to reach.
Twenty years ago, I saw a bush fire when I was in Zambia. It scared the **** out of me. My prayers go out to the people in the affected areas.
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