[californiadisasters] Note From The List-Owner

Seventeen years ago tonight many of us watched on TV or in person the Green Meadow Fire driven by Santa Ana Winds rage near the LA-Ventura County line.
Then about this time of evening it began to wind down seemingly going to sleep for the night just as we did believing the worst was perhaps behind us.
Unfortunately, the Santa Ana Winds returned with a vengeance after midnight pushing the fire all the way to the Pacific Ocean burning many homes in the process.
When we woke up 17 years ago tomorrow morning and turned on our TV's we realized Southern California was aflame with about a dozen and a half fires raging from San Diego County to Ventura County.
My own first memory of tomorrow morning was turning on KTLA-TV Channel 5 Los Angeles and seeing Michelle Ruiz and blowing smoke standing at an intersection that looked disturbingly familiar which I soon realized was New York Drive at Altadena Drive and the Kinneloa Fire was raging down Eaton Canyon which was disturbing as I came from that area before moving up here to the Central Coast later as a kid. Add to that my late grandmother was in a rest home across the street from St. Luke's Hospital and the fire burned part fo the roof and fencing in back and she had to be evacuated... we actually saw her being loaded into an ambulance on CNN.

Fast forward to now and Santa Ana Winds are once again moving into Southern California and as today's events have shown, the 2010 fire season for Southern California is not over.

We have been getting a Santa Ana-like wind up here on the Central Coast all afternoon into this evening..... breezy but surprisingly warm for this time of year and we don't even have the benefit downslope winds like you folks south of the Transverse Ranges.

There was a 250-300 acre wind-driven fire out on the eastern margins of San Luis Obispo County near the county line with Kern County today along the Highway 46 corridor. Clearly the 2010 fire season is still in effect even up here on the Central Coast. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/10/26/1343417/vegetation-fire-burning-near-hwy.html

Kim Patrick Noyes
Paso Robles, CA

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