smoky sunrise

View from our balcony about 6:30 AM Monday. The sunrise is tinted with smoke and ash from the wildfires that are raging 30-40 miles east of here. If you open the window, it smells like a bonfire in your living room. Lucky for us, the fires won't make it this far west.

UPDATE 4:50 PM Monday: Here is a map that shows the estimates of where the fire will go. We are south and east of UC San Diego and Torrey Pines golf course.

UPDATE 10:45 AM Monday: Over 1000 fire engines are on their way from Northern California. There is a chance the fire will burn all the way to the coast before it's done. That would be north of here, according to predictions. On a lighter note: in a press conference, officials made clear that the QUALCOMM evacuation site is QUALCOMM football stadium (where the Chargers play) and not QUALCOMM corporate headquarters in Sorrento Valley. There was some confusion and people were showing up at the HQ for the gods of CDMA technology only to be told they have to take refuge in the football palace in San Diego, not the cell phone palace. But this funny little snafu is not an indication that this is not a very serious situation.

UPDATE 9:00 AM Monday: San Diego is shut down today. The fires are getting worse and the air quality is horrible. Ivano and I should be fine b/c we are near the coast and I don't think the fires will get this far. But they have already jumped a 10 lane highway east of here...things are getting nasty and dangerous.

Local news on the fires