For those exiting Fallbrook and Bonsall a make-shift evacuation center has been set-up at the Towne Center Plaza, at the junction of College Blvd. and Highway 76.

There will certainly be questions of gas price spikes, already at $3.09 yesterday they have jumped to $3.19.



I am unsure what transpired here but there were four police cruisers that had pulled this truck over. Fallbrook is under mandatory evacuations...could this truck be coming from there, loaded with loot?


This is the view of Sleeping Indian Road facing north...

Here is the intersection from where the above picture was taken.

This is the backside of Sleeping Indian, recall that this is the hill we have a view of from our balcony.

This view is loooking downhill on Sleeping Indian, the view is of part of the Fallbrook area.


After coming down the hill I decided to go as far east as I could. Two miles down Highway 76 at the one-stop-light intersection in Bonsall. The Sheriffs department had all of us blocked. No where to go, except back via the San Luis Rey Golf Course...

The golf ourse is San Luis Rey Downs, I belong to the men's club, and there really people playing! Can you imagine, playing with a mask.

The hood of my Ford Expedition is covered (as everything here is) in ash.


This view is looking southeast of our home, and upper corner you can barely make out the sun. It is mid-morning and one would expect lots of sun and clear sky.

This is a shot of our home in Oceanside.

The air is getting heavy as the ash and smoke have settled in around here. I am trying to convince my wife to go to Los Angeles to stay with family for the sake of our daughter and her Grandfather (heart and respirtory problems).

This is the first impression of Escondido that I am able to capture. I am looking southbound on Centre Parkay at Felicita. The roads and city center are a ghost town. The orange overcast is exactly as it was yesterday, 10/22/2007. There are no individuals out and about, the smoke is thick and the wind is blowing hard. Detritis is flying everywhere. This is the closest to a nuclear winter that I care to be...



This view is from Interstate 15 looking southbound. Again, it is a weird feeling to be driving on a normally bump to bumper freeway. Not a sole to be seen, police, fire and all other emergency vehicles are busy fighting the fires.



This picture kind of captures what one sees as you are driving around, just scorched earth, it reminds me of a moon or martian landscape. Sorry for the graininess, but I had to shoot while driving.

Here is the view as I begin to pull up Pomerado Road up to the Retirement Center, literally the fire was licking at the foundation of what we call 'Casa.'


This view is off the balcony leading from our Master Bedroom. The hill that you see is Sleeping Indian, the Rice Fire and Mission Fire are due east of that hill.
This view is looking due east off our balcony. As I have described we are surrounded by fires, and just around our little area is free of smoke, and is perfectly clear. North of us is the smoke for the Rice and Mission fires in Fallbrook, CA. To our south is smoke from the Witch Creek Fire (the largest of the fires).


This view is looking directly aouth. The smoke is from the Witch Creek Fire.

The lights are flickering here now and then, so I will post this and edit later. Please, if you use these photos attribute them under copyright, all rights reserved by Eric Jay Addington, I Dig Photos.