Fire Status - Tuesday morning

I awoke around 5:30a to catch news from KPBS' webcast talk about a fire that 15 minutes earlier had just flowed around the mountain that contained its transmitter. 10 minutes later, at 10:40a, their broadcast stopped.

The fire has gained major ground overnight.

Charlotte left to return to Chapel Hill last night on her flight at 10:30p. I'll call her later this morning.

I am safe. My car is packed with bare necessities as of 8:30p last night. My friend, Stu, came over after evacuating his home in Carmel Del Mar. My upstairs neighbor left last night to stay at family. Other neighbors of mine -- Colleen, Dana, and Madrine, are staying in touch with me and we're all together sharing evacuation info for our area.

Sarah and her mother were evacuated yesterday afternoon from La Costa. They are with friends in San Diego. The plan as of last night was to touch base this morning so I can take care of Sarah today. All schools that I know of are certainly closed.

I've been using the San Diego County Emergency website for official info, but there have been several hour periods without updates after 5p yesterday. KPBS has a low bandwidth page for info even though it seems their over air broadcast has been lost. KPBS has also been updating a Google Map with events. I'm getting spotty webcasts from KGTV 10 News that just resumed.

I'll post here with major events that involve me as I can.