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soapmistress

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But there's a huge fire about 2 miles away and it's really windy. The freeway is being shut down and it's so smokey that people on the highway can't drive.

Should I gather essentials (money, water, gun etc) and stay put? I feel like driving away from it but I'm not sure what the best thing to do is.

Shit.


Shit shit shit shit shit.
 
well thats not good. I would pack up some stuff just in case and if it seems to get too close, then you leave
 
Do you have a bugout bag at the ready? If so, get it in the car and grab whatever you'd never be able to replace (family photos, stuff like that) and get ready to flee if you have to.

If you don't have a bugout bag...after this is over, we gotta talk.

:)
 
Get your hose and soak everything,Roof, trees, bushes, etc.
Pray that it misses you.
 
My friend just called and is leaving her house because it's across the street from her and she's coming over. I'm getting my shit together and leaving. The news is chaos and they don't know what the hell is going on. Shit.
 
Seriously - in case you honestly don't have a bugout bag...

Don't forget prescription meds, insurance docs, essential financial paperwork.

Clothes for a couple of days.

Cash if you have some on hand.
 
Turn on the sprinkler to cover the lawn on the side closest to the fire (and hopefully that wall of the house) and gtfo.

Talk to you later--and I pray that you're on your own computer when we do!
 
If you do drive, put the air conditioner on a low setting toand on recirculate instead of on the setting that draws in "fresh air" you want to keep the outside out.
 
Get together your essential paperwork, precious items, food for a few days, as much water as you can bring (fill water bottles, water jugs, anything), as much cash as you can scrape together, etc.

Also, if time permits, change the message on your answering machine to let callers know that you got out safely, and telling them how to contact you by cell phone.

Best of luck.
 
I hope to hell that Soapmistress has already high-tailed it outta there and that this advice is falling on deaf ears. If not:

1. Grab the IRREPLACEABLE and/or HARD TO REPLACE stuff (husband and kids, family photos, laptop computer with hopefully financial records, pocketbook, any money and small valuables you have, water, food) FIRST and put it into your primary vehicle. Don't forget the $5000 worth of Maple Leafs buried out behind the outhouse.

2. Take the largest vehicle that's in the best shape that you have, calling it your primary vehicle. If your primary vehicle is full of fuel, great. If not, siphon as much as you can from your other vehicles and pour it into the primary vehicle. If not possible, evacuate in a direction with a gas station and BOHICA.

3. If you have time, soak the side of your property where the fire is heading as well as you can with a water hose. Then leave a sprinkler running on that side of the house - better to pay a whopping water bill this month than a deductible for fire loss.

4. Get the heck out of Dodge.

In future, when you get moved back in, build yourself a bugout bag.
 
Jesus. Hope everything's okay. Hoping we hear from her soon.

Bugout bags aren't just for the hardcore survivalists--good example of a reason to have that sort of stuff together. All good suggestions here, Gunny probably already has a bugout bag guide on here somewhere, and if he doesn't, he should. :)
 
Try to enjoy the experience. I'm deadly serious. It's time like these humans get a chance to shine and take their blinkers off.

Pete
 
We were evacuated last October here in Cali during the fires. 8 people in an RV for 8 days. Among us was one 3 year old, and my pregnant daugher who went into labor prematurely because of the stress. My grandson is fine. :)

We took our 3 dogs, 4 cats, and 2 horses (we left the chickens with the coop door open) with us and drove to the Del Mar race track where they were set up to take livestock, etc. We put the horses there and parked the RV down the road in a dirt parking lot for 8 days before they would let us back into Ramona. It was not fun.

We kept calling our house to see if the answering machine would go off. It did, so we knew our house wasn't burned down. When they finally let us back into town, there was no running water. We have a well so it didn't affect us - oh - and our house and land were not burned, just wind and smoke damaged. Thanks be to God.

Here's hoping and praying Soapmistress's home was not burned and she is safe.
 
Thank goodness she's ok

back in the 70's I fought forest fires in CA, you DO NOT want to get caught in a raging fire.
 
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