Evacuation status
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We’re up in Leucadia. Which may not be far enough, based on the maps! Around 1/3 of Areae is coming here, in fact.
Outside, the smoke is thick and the sky is solid yellow. Which is what it looked like last night back in Rancho Bernardo.
Near as we can tell, our house and the office are both still there.
If this area looks too threatened, we’ll keep heading north. I heard one woman on the radio who just headed to Vegas. 🙂
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As Raph has been updating in hisblog, Areae’s offices and the staff’s home shave been evacuated in as the Fires burning over a large area of California continues to grow. Raph is keeping things up to date on their status, and our best wishes and prayers are with anyone affected by
I hope the evacuation goes well, and I hope you don’t lose your home.
Best of luck, and return soon.
My parents house is up near leucadia. Based on the reports, it may indeed not be far enough, which is sort of scary for the whole my parents house being there next time I visit thing. Luckily they are out of town, conveniently enough.
I’ll look forward to updates for both your – and the rest of your team members – safety, as well as a little local news about how bad it gets out there so I can have an idea of whats going on around my parents house.
We’re still in Poway, but not in any immediate danger.
San Diego Union-Tribune has a regularly updated fire blog.
Leucadia is not an evac point, says City of Encinitas. I would suggest Coronado (not Coronado Hills), but I don’t know what the traffic situation is like. Given that Qualcomm Stadium is now harboring 10,000+ refugees, I imagine that’s it’s pretty bad.
I hope you, your family, and your team are safe.
We were actually at the Mira Mesa evac facility until we determined it was going to be a very unfun place.
Leucadia as of right now looks like it will be fine. it is no longer orange and yellow in the sky, and there is less ash falling.
According to the news, the fires in Rancho bernardo have died down … and near as we can tell, the house and office seem to be OK. But we don’t know when we will get back there.
There’s nothing quite like a natural disaster to ruin your day/week/month. In Darwin, it’s the little ticker across the bottom of the TV that says, “A category 5 cyclone is headed your way. Your house may be scattered across the neighborhood before it’s over. Have a nice day.” (I’m paraphrasing.)
There are concerns about people, pets (which have a tendency to run off at inopportune times), houses, work, schedule slippage, all the photos that could be lost, etc.
Jokingly: I bet you wished you had a web-cam near/in your office/home so you could see if they were still there.
its good to hear that you all are safe!
Damn, totally sucks Raph. Was first thinking of Grimwell and his family, and hadn’t even thought about you and all the rest of the dev world located there in California.
Sure hope everything is ok when you return, and the same for the rest of those evacuating. Really sad news, and totally scary shit that they’re showing on the news here near NYC where I am.
I’ll be praying for ya, and everyone out there.
Did you get time to move more than one carload of your stuff to safety, or was it single-trip only? I’ve no idea what I’d take with me if I only had one carload (other than my wife and kids). That’s got to be a tough decision.
I guess this doesn’t bode well for your trip to London this week?
Richard
I think the roads to Vegas are closed now, too.
Friends of ours are planning to head north to the Bay Area for the duration. We’re in south Oceanside, and for most of the day we’ve been out of the smoke. That’s starting to change, however.
Stay safe. The fire *shouldn’t* get into Leucadia, but there are a lot of things this fire *shouldn’t* be able to do, and that hasn’t stopped it so far.
Um, words aren’t really doing it justice
Best of luck. Safety first.
Corvallis Oregon will accept you and company if you ever feel like just going on up into Oregon. Beautiful and green, no fires, 1 hour to skiing and 1 hour to the beach. Your developers would be riding their bikes to work too if all was well 🙂
Hope you’re all doing ok over there.
Stay safe… I’ve been following along on the posts – I swear, I get more news on sites like these than I do anywhere else anymore – and it sounds like you’re all still doing alright.
Best of luck to you and everyone else in the area.
Sign of the Times – I heard about this 100% from the Internet, first from friends talking on IRC (I steadfastly use IRC, but no tv, what the heck does that say? “IRC, the new old school!”), but it was vague and I mostly ignored it (e.g. friend in Irvine had to log off to save his computers from the power outages from the Santa Anas Sunday night). Then I’m catching up on blogs last night and there it hits me “We have evacuated”. “the alpha can’t be going that poorly!” I heard about 9-11 from IRC-land also, although in that case I ran immediately to the tv to CNN, now its YouTube.
I’m really glad to hear that you’re all okay and got out fast. I was just watching the news about the fires this morning and was thinking of you guys. I hope that your house and office come through as well…
I hope you and your family remain safe.
If you need anything, set up a shopping list on Amazon or its ilk. I’d be happy to assist to the extent I can.
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For anyone wondering, Raph told me last night that he was leaving with his family from Leucadia to Anaheim. I haven’t heard from him since but he’ll probably give you an update when he has a chance.
Wow… been glued to my TV following this story. This one looks like the stuff of worst-case-scenario planning. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, Raph, and all the people of SoCal. Stay safe.
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Google news stories are now quoting 500,000 people displaced and about 1,300 homes or businesses destroyed. I had no idea the fires were this big. 🙁
Raph, I hope you and yours are all safe, and still have a home to go back to once things return a bit to normal.
My prayers are with you and the other folks of that area. I look forward to hearing the office and home are alright.
As of 9:36 AM today, the fires are this bad. The fire that’s relevant to me is the Witch Creek fire:
The Cal. Gov. called a state of emergency. The U.S. Pres. declared a state of emergency. The Natl. Guard was called in. I think the local military (San Diego is a Navy town with several bases of strategic importance) was requested to support the firefighting efforts. I’m southwest of the Witch fire, which yesterday appeared intent on surrounding my area of Poway. Evac orders were sent to the north, east, and south. I guess I’m in the west, but we haven’t heard anything about a risk evaluation for this area.
That all this happening is completely surreal. It’s never been this bad before. The wildfires typically occurred away from densely populated communities. I guess these wildfires happened in remote locations, too, but the Santa Ana winds brought them here. Oh yeah, I hate calling the Witch fire “wild” because the fire was caused by a blown, poorly maintained SDG&E transformer… An official investigation into the cause is underway, so it’s jumping the gun to call any of these fires “natural” disasters.
That totally pierced my heart. The thought that here’s this dev team, making this entire world, this place that is supposed to be a metaplace, beyond, above it all, out there somewhere, a place we’ll all be able to access and make and keep things in and so on…and then it turns out it’s so fragile…dependent on real people only at the end of the day, not avatars, actual people, people who have to stay a step ahead of a fire. It’s just so sobering.
Unfortunately, I think you may have to head even farther north Raph.
Take care and be safe – thoughts and prayers are with you, your family and the team.
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