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10/24/2007: "FireWatch - Day 4"

They're calling our current firestorms the largest US natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina, and I'd have to agree. It'll be weeks until they can get their hands around all the numbers, but they'll be staggering - entire neighborhoods burned to the ground, miles and miles of scorched earth, nearly a million people evacuated.

The good news is that there has only been 1 fatality - damned near amazing, if you ask me. I think that since so many of the evacuees are from the same general area as the Cedar Fire of 2003, they're taking the whole thing far more serious than in the past. There's also a new reverse 911 system in place in many of the affected areas, that calls individuals to tell them to flee.

As you can see from the picture, there's a whole bunch of fires, and a ton of smoke in the air. The red dots represent the various fires, and the yellow dot is me. I'm feeling surrounded - fires on the north, east and south, and ocean on the west. Fortunately, the PV peninsula remains fire-free - so far.

More to follow ...