Crown Fire

Well, it has been a pretty scary 30 hours. About 3:00pm on Thursday afternoon, fires broke out around our house. By 7:30pm Thursday night, a manditory evacuation was called, and we packed up the car with documents, hard drives and a ton of pictures. We spent a fitful night at our friend Jamie and Greg's house, and I took the pictures you see below:

From this shot, our house is in line with the red tail lights on the right hand side of the screen.
The fire is less than a mile from our house.

This was the view from our friend Jamie's house, about a mile from our house, 2 miles from the fire.


Here was the moon at 11:00pm Thursday night.


Here was the moon about 10 minutes ago....quite a big improvement!

We're back at home tonight, and the reports from all sources is that the fire is 20% contained, and should be well under control by morning.

Fire is a scary, powerful thing...it is amazing what you deem important when you have to grab what you can when being evacuated. Things just don't seem as necessary when you have your family with you and their safety is all that matters.