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Old Nov 15, 2008 | 07:47 PM
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Driving home from a detail class today had to exit the freeway that was closed due to the fires in Yorba Linda.
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Old Nov 15, 2008 | 07:53 PM
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Yes, it never seems to end. Mid november and 100 degree winds blowing out of the East at 40 mph at 5% relative humidity.

I'm in San Diego and last year we had it here (among other places) and three years ago as well. Unbelievable!

But the wind is shifting back around (which, despite our human "can do" attitude, is the ONLY thing that will stop these fires) so hopefully things will settle down in a few days.

To those in that area, prayers and best wishes!

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Old Nov 15, 2008 | 08:55 PM
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Sorry to hear that Ed, this can`t be good.......
 
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Old Nov 15, 2008 | 09:38 PM
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A lot of you good folks stood by me last year when the fires came thru my neighborhood. It was 10 days of hell. These fires are north of us and they are really big.

Prayers for those north of us and we hope the weather settles down so San Diego doesn't turn into another mess.

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Old Nov 15, 2008 | 10:48 PM
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hey ed we can see and smell the smoke out here in cucamonga.
its a shame everytime it's dry and the wind start's blowin some idiot starts a fire!
 
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Old Nov 15, 2008 | 11:56 PM
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Thanks guys. Im the city north of the fires but have club members who live in the areas and they are safe. Very strange to see all the freeways shut down.

Yorba Linda/Corona fire gives John Force a scare | The Fabulous Forum | Los Angeles Times

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Old Nov 16, 2008 | 12:19 AM
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Let`s all pray that they, as everyone, stay safe.
 
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Old Nov 16, 2008 | 09:15 AM
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We had a little SoCal chapter BBQ yesterday, I snapped a couple of smoke pics - we were about 20mi to the sw of the fire in Ed's pictures.
This was at around 10:30 am or so:
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/d...TEnov15019.jpg
12:30 when I took this one:
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/d...TEnov15025.jpg
You can see the smoky haze in the background of this picture of Ron's beautiful '54:
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/d...TEnov15016.jpg
Smoke covered the sky by 2:30:
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/d...TEnov15028.jpg

Let's hope the weather gives the folks that are trying to get a handle on this a bit of a break. Humidity levels have been in the single digits, and it's unusually hot for this time of year - even for here.
 
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Old Nov 16, 2008 | 11:57 AM
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so-cal fires

Hey guys I live in La Verne so I smell and see the OC fires and I had to work saturday morning in North Hollywood so here is a roof top photo of the Sylmar fire.

Good Luck

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Old Nov 16, 2008 | 12:32 PM
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socalw. where was that picture taken from? what business? that tower is where i might have worked
 
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Old Nov 16, 2008 | 01:41 PM
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It was from plumbers furniture store on sherman way just east of the 170 freeway. I think its a small rock crushing plant for base.
 
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Old Nov 16, 2008 | 03:26 PM
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thanks. i know where that is at. thought it might be near sun valley
 
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Old Nov 16, 2008 | 04:45 PM
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Makes Okie land not seem too bad. Scary stuff there. Hey Ed, detail class? Joe
 
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Old Nov 16, 2008 | 06:20 PM
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At Meguiars shop. I can't believe the results using product the right way. I learned a lot. Class started at 8:30 to 2:30. Morning was all power point presentation on the proper way to wash and detail a car to 12. they even got pizza from everyone. Then we took what we learned to a truck paint job. I will post some pics. You can check out the link below for pics from the last time.

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Old Nov 16, 2008 | 06:59 PM
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Here is another link on the class with some pics

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