Archive for October, 2007

Oct 26 2007

Great Nasa Site with Satellite Pictures of the San Diego Wildfires Smoke

Published by under Current Events,Mapping,San Diego

This NASA site has a great write up of the progression of the smoke as seen from space.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/socal_wildfires_oct07.html

Here are a couple of images of the smoke starting to swirl back to us as the Westbound Santa Ana winds die off and the normal on shore winds kick back in:

This one from the NASA site above:

This one from The Weather Channel:

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Oct 25 2007

Wildfire Sunset

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I just couldn’t stop taking shots of the sun going down last night. Maybe it was the colors, or the way the shape kept changing. Maybe it was relief at finally being home.

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Oct 25 2007

Fire Progression Animation

My buddy Gabe made a neat fire progression animation:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1738949137&size=o

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Oct 24 2007

Google Earth 3D Fire Maps

Published by under Current Events,Mapping,San Diego

Wow, this guy has some amazing stuff. One example:

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Oct 24 2007

Another Amazing Google Fire Map

Published by under Current Events,Mapping,San Diego

http://xrl.us/7myq

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Oct 24 2007

We’re Back Home!

Published by under Current Events,Family,San Diego

Our October family vacation is now over.  We stayed in a lovely condo in La Jolla.  There was an older couple booked into the same place, but they kept feeding us, so we didn’t complain.  🙂

A huge thanks to Luc and Susan for putting us (and the damn dog) up for the days we were evacuated!

We’re so glad to be home.  Sadly, Elaine caught the stomach flu I had on the first night and day of the fires, but she’s getting better.  At least she gets to use familiar bathrooms!  That’s good, right?

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Oct 24 2007

Wired Article on San Diego Amateur Fire Bloggers/Twitterers

Published by under Current Events,Friends,San Diego

The Dan Tentler mentioned is a buddy I met through the local barcamp.


http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/firsthand-repor.html

Dan’s Photo Site.

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Oct 24 2007

Wednesday Morning Update

We’re still camped out at Luc’s house in La Jolla (Thanks Luc!), waiting to hear if we’re allowed back into Penasquitos. According to the Channel 8 news, we are not yet.

I’m mainly over my flu bug, but now poor Elaine appears to have it. I hope we don’t infect everyone!

We SO want to go home…

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Oct 23 2007

Another San Diego Wildfires Satellite Photo

Published by under Current Events,San Diego

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Oct 23 2007

Map of Burned Houses in Rancho Bernardo

Published by under Current Events,Mapping,San Diego

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?uid=103857397835359262716&hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108433978883521424480.00043d307e160282349c1

Make sure to read the text to the left of the map.  There are 3 pages of houses, each showing a different map.

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