I’d show you a photo of it on a car, but I don’t have a reasonable camera.
Hence, a 3 photos (from a bad camera) of the sky:
I am in california, and there is a forest fire, bad one, relatively nearby. In fact, it is very close to my school.
so that, in the sky (and falling from it) is smoke.
the sky like that is only something I got used to seeing in half life 2 demonstrations. Aiieee!
dude, im in cali to… redwood city, nuthin like dat neer heer :o
woah, that was spooky…
I was listening to the BBC worldservice over the net while reading through the messages… I opened your message EXACTLY as they started a news piece about the fires!!!
Looks like the fire may be here by morning at it’s current rate
it is currently about where my school is; I don’t know if my school is burning down or not. If (though I doubt it) stuff is still burning there monday I don’t know how I will even get to school, the freeway nearby (the 118) is closed.
Now, this is the part that gets me. (I haven’t been this near a forest fire before, lived near anglest forest last, but in the city in the foothills) If we are told to leave (should we be so lucky) I will not be allowed to take my computers. My dad will be videotaping EVERYTHING come first thing tomorrow morning so that we may keep track of what we have, and we will if required to leave only be taking important paperwork and documents (including photos) that must not be destroyed.
I hope my house doesn’t burn down.
(oh, and soot falling from the sky floats and spins, I guess it looks like big sparse snowflakes)
yea… that sucks… i hope your house doesnt burn down 
its happened to me before, but i think its worse if you wake up in the middle of the night to it happening.
z3er, at least take your hard-drive. that way (if you don’t drop it) you’ll have your data.
ps. biggest irony here would be if you dropped the drive, but the house didn’t burn. So don’t drop it!! (better yet, make backup cds/tapes/whatever of important stuff, so you can take that if you need it)
I have 3 computers that work, total of 4 hard drives. Interesting idea though. I don’t know if we will really have time for that, there are more than 12 computers in my house. wonders if insurance will cover a 486 used as a firewall…
oh, and hard drives withstand dropping alwright. If I haven’t mentioned I work in a computer lab; one of my jobs is to swap drives for different classes. They fall a good amount, and hold up pretty well. I guess it would be more of a concern if the board breaks though, they are in removable drive cases.
It is the moring now (I got up half an hour ago, the sun has been out for a while). The fire isn’t here, and the winds would have to change direction for the fire to come here (it’s overnight path wasn’t directly in our direction) but we don’t want to risk it.
outside the large clouds of smoke aren’t here, instead their is enough smoke that if you only saw a picture of it it looks like fog. It smells like a barbecue (well, standing down wind of one), but is annoying that you can’t get out of the smell. It isn’t strong enough (yet) that you must avoid it.
The power was almost going out last night, and it appears it did overnight. All of our clocks (well, except on computers and my watch) needed to be reset for daylight savings time anyway.
now that I think about I can tell you the power went out most recently 5 hours ago. I was asleep then.
Well, no classes tomorrow, the campus will be closed.
I doubt my school burned down (expansive areas of well-kept grass, and widely spaced concrete buildings)
the wind has been blowing the fire around still, and no signs of relief from the winds until tuesday at the earliest. Things could still change to bring the fire here, I need to pack up my irreplaceable valuables.
(and I got a ati 9600 se today, free copy of half life 2! Let’s see how the linux drivers go…)