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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 1:36 pm
I made this so that you can post updates here!! Be safe all of you affected by the fires!
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 1:41 pm
I took this picture yesterday. I'm not good with geography, but this is from at LEAST sixty miles away:

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Dovez
Member
08-27-2005
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 5:32 pm
i'll try to take a pic or two from up here in the mtns of big bear. we had a short thunderstorm here about an hour ago. there was a bit of rain but mostly the thunder...and that dreaded lightening. my smoke is coming from both the station fire and the yucaipa/oak glen fires.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 5:33 pm
From the LA Times:

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Dovez
Member
08-27-2005
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 5:47 pm
wow. that is some picture, bonza. i'm supposed to go back down the mtn to my home in los angeles this weekend but i'm not so sure that i should.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 5:54 pm
Dovez - I've seen some pics from Brentwood that were not so great in terms of the smoke in the sky. I've been around the Simi and San Fernando Valleys - again, not so great, depending on time of day and wind. Eerie at times.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 6:05 pm
Wow. What a picture. I heard a weather man discussing the "cauliflower" look of the top. He said that when a fire burns that hot and that fast, it draws ALL moisture in the area up to the top and creates its own atmosphere. It's possible to even create rain from it. Oh, how I wish it would have. Thanks for bringing the pic over, Bonza.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 6:05 pm
This was from Brentwood. At least 25-30 miles away from the fire.

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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 6:23 pm
I wondered why is was white. A cloud is made.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 6:45 pm
I totally gasped when I saw those pictures on TV earlier. Stay safe everyone out there!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 8:12 pm
they totally remind me of 9-11. I had tons of ash on my car and there was a yellow haze this morning at 7am. It was from the San Bernardino fires.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 10:04 pm
Hope Rosie will check in..
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 10:16 pm
I am here SEA. Been surrounded with smoke. Staying indoors. No chance of the flames getting me now.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 10:19 pm
Oh, yay, Rosie. I got a little worried. Good to hear from you.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 11:14 pm
Good Rosie, stay in!
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 11:16 pm
This is eerie.... Mt. Wilson Web camera goes down September 1, 2009 | 10:49 pm The UCLA-operated Web camera based at the Mt. Wilson Observatory has ceased functioning due to a server problem, most likely caused by a backfire damaging phone lines that provide Internet service from the site, according to a statement posted on the Web site. The webcam had functioned for several days as a window onto the observatory as the Station fire has moved closer and closer. Authorities say the fire could overtake the observatory and communications complex by Wednesday morning. The last image uploaded to the site was taken at 1:49 p.m., and showed smoke surrounding an array of antennas. ========= And this is the last webcam image:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/mt-wilson-web-camera-goes-down.html
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 11:38 pm
Bonza...that is freaky. California has just got to get better control of the fire situation. It's just a crying shame, year after year.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 12:02 am
Satellite shot showing smoke from all the fires:
Good to hear from you, Rosie 
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 12:14 am
Heard over and over again that if Mt. Wilson goes out that TV coverage would go too if you don't have satellite/cable. I haven't heard anything about Oak Glen being deliberately started but have heard that Pendleton is being investigated as a crime scene. I wasn't worried at all till one of the kids called and wanted me to go to his house. Then next day the other one called and informed me that Oak Glen had tripled in size. He called at least 3 times today and was even in the city. The last time he called I told him that I have a flat tire and he was perturbed that I didn't tell him before. I will get it fixed early a.m. I really haven't wanted to go outside to fool with the car. P.S. I am awake just to see if M gets to sleep in her bed or not. lol
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 3:08 am
Rosie, I pray you are safe! Those pictures are scary from Mt. Wilson!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 7:51 am
We don't have as much smoke today (though it looks like we will later on, I notice it creeping more and more across the sky) but the smoke over the mountains is so low in looks like we have no mountains to the south/southeast. Can't see any of them, just a nasty wall of smoke where they are. Watching, the news weather man had an explanation for the clouds, something about when the hot air from the smoke rises up and cools and creates its own real clouds. Also something about they could produce their own lightening. It was very strange to see the dark smoke with big white puffy clouds sitting on top of it.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 8:59 am
I hope everyone in that horrific fire's path is safe, and checks in with us.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 9:08 am
Twiggyish, I am in NO danger but I appreciate yours and all others good wishes. The smoke was my only problem. I didn't hear planes flying over me all nite long so things must really be improved.
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Dovez
Member
08-27-2005
| Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 10:15 am
for some reason there were several helios/planes scoping out the lake this morning. a good place for live scanner info on the fires is socalmountains.com
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 10:23 am
Glad to see you cked in and are ok, Rosie! Everyone stay safe! There wasnt as much ash on my car this morning but at 7:30am it felt like 90 degrees, right now it is hazy and feels like 100
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