2008 Annual Fire Thread

[Mousey Girl]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

5 Freeway through Newhall Pass is open again.

It figures. I just got home.

Normally it would take me about 2-2 1/2 hours to get to the O.C. area. Today it took me that long just to get to the half-way point. It took over an hour and a half to get from Castaic to Piru & 126.

It was eerie seeing the thick, black smoke hovering on the hills behind Magic Mountain. By behind I mean looking south from the 5.

When sitting in traffic I watched several different fire companies heading towards the Selmar fire. The ones that I could read were from Sacramento & Oakland. There was also lots of heavy equipment being moved towards the fire.

I was really looking forward to seeing everyone tonight. I just couldn't continue. By the time I called NA I had been in the car for over 3 hours and had gone only 100 miles from my house.


The air around here is starting to get pretty smokey. We will be getting the smoke from the Montecito fire.