been reading a bit the last few days about the evacuations around Irvine for the fire

you and the family OK?

The firefighters and police are doing a tremendous job. Efficient and professional.

Please pray for the two fire fighters gravely injured battling the fires on the ground.

Aside from the fire fighters and public safety personnel putting themselves in harms way, the rest of us are safe and things look more dramatic than they really are. The evacuations appear dramatic because the fairly dense suburban neighborhoods results in huge evacuation numbers (100k residents). But, generally speaking, the Irvine neighborhoods abutting these open spaces with wild grass and brush are newly developed, have all been built with wildfire threat in mind, have fire suppression sprinklers, and have generous fire breaks separating the neighborhoods from the open spaces. Each of these communities also have huge arterial thoroughfares for traffic management.

All the planning is working exactly as intended, and we have fires blazing right up to the edge of neighborhoods without a single structure lost in the Silverado fires. There's a different fire burning a little ways north of here, and my understanding is that they've lost four structures up there, at least one of which was under construction--but the houses up there are generally older.

We own a house in one of the voluntary evacuation zones and our tenants have relocated due to air quality issues. Our own home is just outside of another voluntary evacuation zone by about 100 meters.

This local emergency has shaken a few loose bits out of my own bug-out plan. For instance, I need a more efficient transport method for guns. But for the most part, preparing for evac was calm and organized.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Aeteocles,

thats good to hear

Dave just texted me - he and the family are fine

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
This local emergency has shaken a few loose bits out of my own bug-out plan. For instance, I need a more efficient transport method for guns.

Maybe you can get a deal on a lightly used bearcat or something similar with room inside for a safe or two?

On a more serious note, I have the same problem and have yet to figure out a great solution for it. When our fire rolled through in June I was too busy fighting it to worry about bugging out. That would have been a cluster.

I think I'm going to get a bunch of these:

https://www.harborfreight.com/...-long-tan-56862.html

I won't take *every gun, just the ones that exceed insurance replacement value. I'm currently using soft cases for when I take 1-2 guns out to the range, but that doesn't satisfy the need to get a bunch of guns out of the house locked for transport.

Aet and Nht! Aet, I saw you marked yourself safe, thank goodness! If you evacuate and need a place call me. Nht, thank you for the text my friend.

Can't 2020 be over with?

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
We own a house in one of the voluntary evacuation zones and our tenants have relocated due to air quality issues.

My daughter is at UC Irvine and she checked in OK, except for the air quality...luckily they are all already wearing mask. The campus is one of the designated areas for evacuees to relocate to.

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
I think I'm going to get a bunch of these:

https://www.harborfreight.com/...-long-tan-56862.html

I won't take *every gun, just the ones that exceed insurance replacement value. I'm currently using soft cases for when I take 1-2 guns out to the range, but that doesn't satisfy the need to get a bunch of guns out of the house locked for transport.

Glad y'all are safe. Didn't even know HF carried these...thanks for the tip!

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Originally posted by davetruong:
Aet and Nht! Aet, I saw you marked yourself safe, thank goodness! If you evacuate and need a place call me. Nht, thank you for the text my friend.

Can't 2020 be over with?

Thanks for checking in Dave, and thanks for the offer. We're good, we did not end up leaving.

I've got family over in the Woodbury section, no issues but, now they know what I've been dealing with the last 3-years with these fires

Air purifiers are sold out everywhere around here because of the fires.

My wife exasperatedly exclaims, "Can you just predict other disasters so we can buy this stuff before we need it?"

Me: What the hell woman? That's *all* I do. I'm constantly trying to accumulate stuff in advance of when we actually need it.

Wife: Well, why don't we have air purifiers then?

Me: Can I go buy a generator?

Wife: No, we don't need a generator. The power hardly ever goes out.

Me: So when you ask me why we don't have XYZ, the answer is "You." You are the reason why I don't have whatever it is that you want today but should have bought yesterday.

^^^ And then you woke up in the hospital....