FIRE!

article about the Goleta fire
As of this morning this is the latest news, that the fire has grown! Great! Last night it was like...300 acres, and we watched it spread to 1900. Yeah. Right on our hills. Wanna see?


The fire station next to our house. The yellow is sky that's left, but then there's smoke all over the place.











A lot of these pictures are blurry, but you can see the fires. Our camera really sucks.





























This picture was a mistake, because the stupid flash was on, but it reflected weirdly on the ash, so now you can see, we were breathing smoke.










These next two were taken this morning. It's really hard to see the fires, but they're still raging, and there's some smoke.




























Because of all this, we're pretty anxious to get out of here, luckily Tim & Allison are going to SJ this weekend and offered to let us hitch a ride. Our power was out for a few hours last night in a very big power outage across most of SB county. I think it was caused by the fire, is what the article says. Anyway, fireworks are supposed to happen in the exact same place where I was taking the pictures (not on the hills, but in-between us and them) but I wonder if they will be canceled. In any case, the fire is getting worse, and it's hard to fight it because nor-cal (in Monterey) is on fire, too, so California is spread pretty thin. We're just happy to get out of here, especially if the power was still out. Luckily it went back on so I could blog, yay.