Anne this post is for you in response to your comment
Hey,
Well I will tell you details in all of this event. I had gotten out of work at about 3:30 and exchanged cars with a mechanic at the school Cleveland School on Alameda Padre Sierra(APS), which is where I work now and the mechanic took my ride to fix my breaks and said "I'll have it back between 5:30pm-6pm. I was like fine. So I took his ghetto mexican minivan and debated whether to take his ride up APS to Sycamore Canyon Rd over to Parma Park. I didnt do it for two reason: one I was paranoid of crashing it and me having to pay(my luck) and two his doors didn't lock or something...I dunno but I didn't go to Parma Park. I had gone the day before and saw a coyote. I see that now as an omen that something was going to happen.
I went called two people one a friend from michigan and I kept saying to him"Gary, its really windy, like really windy, Santa Anas. I then called a friend in Portland and I got off the phone with her at 5:45pm when I saw mechanic come with my car down our really steep ass driveway. It was him who said Rosa there is a fire right on the foothills and I was like what where! We went up the steep as driveway and saw it, it was relatively small but I knew that shit was going to get bigger with those winds. There were other neighbors looking and I asked where is that abouts? A lady said it looks like up near Westmont College so I walked down calmly to tell the lady I live with who remember dealt with the 77 fire. She and her parapalegic son were about to have dinner. I said there is a fire and the lady wanted to see so I took her up there and her son was like FUCK! We came down and within 15 mins I grabbed shit and was out by 6:30pm As I drove off, those winds picked up BIG TIME, 70 mph NNE direction. I could not see much as I drove off except smoke and a fire glow. Traffic was not bad on our main street Barker Pass. Our neighborhood evacuated in 35 mins. these people had endured 77' and knew what to do so i think that helped me not to freak the fuck out. As I gathered the clothes off my floor I just saying to myself keep calm you need to be rational. that was it. when i was close to my dad's gf place I called my mom becuz I knew this would be on Good morning america and she'd be watchin and callin me freakin the fuck out so I called her and told her I was ok and I was on my way to dad's. my dad was unreachable and he was in Ventura. I got there and turned the tv on and I OMG'd when I saw how it spread. I was up all night you could here the 2 dc-10's commin in at around 5:30am. I kept checkin the kceyt website every 10 mins. I watched a netflix movie and ate a small bowl of beans for dinner. my dad finally called and on his way back from ventura from the 101 called and said it was huge. being the dumbass he can be was going to attempt to go up barker pass. i said don't do it and doubt if you can i'm sure its blocked off. maryann had called me around 8:30pm and the voicemail said rosa, i turned on the news and its about the fire if you are not home don't think about going up there and call me and let me know if you are alright. the next two nights I WAS OBSESSED like you with the fire. I kept checking weather winds which died down right when I fell asleep for like 45 mins and had a dream about fire...lol! when I got up I heard those dc-10s went outside and noticed it was sunny with ash and saw that the winds were calm and that is what saved our area.
sierra vista rd divided as north and south sierra vista it connects in a horseshoe pattern and then goes down and curves to the left facing the canyon, sycamore canyon. so what happened was that embers reached up with winds made it more fucked and destroyed that house which belonged to an architect who had help many in this neighorhood rebuild their cribs after the 77'. he was not even in santa barbara, he was in vegas. the next house down had a bunch of sculptures which burned to bits and a little studio was gone but the house was saved. I thought of you when I returned sunday afternoon cuz my landlady was about to hop in a neighors car and go for a drive around the neighborhood and thought oh anne would love this! so i saw the house gone and saw the sculptures gone. it was pretty surreal. we talked to forest service people who were really nice and saw what hard ass work they had.
by the way, i had no word about our place. my landlady didnt have a cell phone, forgot her meds, and address book.
Meds were what I forgot, and its the one thing people forget the most i heard. i kept also checking city of sb website and it was there I saw the list of homes destroyed at about 3am and was so tired Anne, saw the one home 195 Sierra Vista and read it as 135 sierra vista(my address) for 30 secs and was like fuck but then I got it. on sunday am, i saw that people were being let back into their homes and got a call at around 10:30am from my landlady that she was home and everything was ok. her son was out for 2 hours clearing ass from driveway and fruit trees. when i got there he hugged me we talked he bitched and i cleaned my room. let me tell you, he just mentioned 2 wks ago about how smart and calm i was during this event knowing i had never been through it. he said he is still impressed how well i handled that. i have my landlady to thank she kept saying have this ready and that especially when zaca fire happened, it was after gap fire she told me to register with reverse 911 and i did i never got the call but my landlady did. it was on her machine when she got back.
I miss Parma park so much they are in the hydromulching process and it will be who knows how long when I will be able to walk there again but when I do it will be so awesome and beautiful!
mountain dr, coyote, and las alturas were badly hit. and obviously you have heard that it was 10 city college fuckheads who were up ther at the tea fire area havin a bonfire(dumbasses the night before and did not extinguish the fire properly) btw, we still don't know the names of the fucks people in sb are pissed as hell about that.
i know i have bitched about sb but one thing I saw positive about this was that people were so generous...local businesses offering lodging(I could have stayed at the fess parker for free!)sandals, all kinds of shit...faxes computers..etc....i saw this community come together and that was nice to see.
and that is my tea fire story.
hope all is well with you.
btw, I remember you being notorious for reciting certain year as being the worst. well 2008 was the worst year for me on record. I got fired from my almost 23bucks an hour job with kick ass benefits on July 2, 2008. Nothing has brought down my self esteem so bad as that did. I was suicidal...I still feel really bad...but I am working with kids believe or not and I love it. I still don't want to have kids but working with them is not so much stressful as it is EXHAUSTING! I go to my job don't deal with office bullshit like i did play with kids and am off at 3:30pm...get all these holidays off but I need a another job to survive...I was lucky anne, I was able to collect unemployment and wow did it help.
what do you think about the 93 yr old man who froze to death in Bay City. Do you know I found out about it on the local sb news? I was OMG'd...
Well I will tell you details in all of this event. I had gotten out of work at about 3:30 and exchanged cars with a mechanic at the school Cleveland School on Alameda Padre Sierra(APS), which is where I work now and the mechanic took my ride to fix my breaks and said "I'll have it back between 5:30pm-6pm. I was like fine. So I took his ghetto mexican minivan and debated whether to take his ride up APS to Sycamore Canyon Rd over to Parma Park. I didnt do it for two reason: one I was paranoid of crashing it and me having to pay(my luck) and two his doors didn't lock or something...I dunno but I didn't go to Parma Park. I had gone the day before and saw a coyote. I see that now as an omen that something was going to happen.
I went called two people one a friend from michigan and I kept saying to him"Gary, its really windy, like really windy, Santa Anas. I then called a friend in Portland and I got off the phone with her at 5:45pm when I saw mechanic come with my car down our really steep ass driveway. It was him who said Rosa there is a fire right on the foothills and I was like what where! We went up the steep as driveway and saw it, it was relatively small but I knew that shit was going to get bigger with those winds. There were other neighbors looking and I asked where is that abouts? A lady said it looks like up near Westmont College so I walked down calmly to tell the lady I live with who remember dealt with the 77 fire. She and her parapalegic son were about to have dinner. I said there is a fire and the lady wanted to see so I took her up there and her son was like FUCK! We came down and within 15 mins I grabbed shit and was out by 6:30pm As I drove off, those winds picked up BIG TIME, 70 mph NNE direction. I could not see much as I drove off except smoke and a fire glow. Traffic was not bad on our main street Barker Pass. Our neighborhood evacuated in 35 mins. these people had endured 77' and knew what to do so i think that helped me not to freak the fuck out. As I gathered the clothes off my floor I just saying to myself keep calm you need to be rational. that was it. when i was close to my dad's gf place I called my mom becuz I knew this would be on Good morning america and she'd be watchin and callin me freakin the fuck out so I called her and told her I was ok and I was on my way to dad's. my dad was unreachable and he was in Ventura. I got there and turned the tv on and I OMG'd when I saw how it spread. I was up all night you could here the 2 dc-10's commin in at around 5:30am. I kept checkin the kceyt website every 10 mins. I watched a netflix movie and ate a small bowl of beans for dinner. my dad finally called and on his way back from ventura from the 101 called and said it was huge. being the dumbass he can be was going to attempt to go up barker pass. i said don't do it and doubt if you can i'm sure its blocked off. maryann had called me around 8:30pm and the voicemail said rosa, i turned on the news and its about the fire if you are not home don't think about going up there and call me and let me know if you are alright. the next two nights I WAS OBSESSED like you with the fire. I kept checking weather winds which died down right when I fell asleep for like 45 mins and had a dream about fire...lol! when I got up I heard those dc-10s went outside and noticed it was sunny with ash and saw that the winds were calm and that is what saved our area.
sierra vista rd divided as north and south sierra vista it connects in a horseshoe pattern and then goes down and curves to the left facing the canyon, sycamore canyon. so what happened was that embers reached up with winds made it more fucked and destroyed that house which belonged to an architect who had help many in this neighorhood rebuild their cribs after the 77'. he was not even in santa barbara, he was in vegas. the next house down had a bunch of sculptures which burned to bits and a little studio was gone but the house was saved. I thought of you when I returned sunday afternoon cuz my landlady was about to hop in a neighors car and go for a drive around the neighborhood and thought oh anne would love this! so i saw the house gone and saw the sculptures gone. it was pretty surreal. we talked to forest service people who were really nice and saw what hard ass work they had.
by the way, i had no word about our place. my landlady didnt have a cell phone, forgot her meds, and address book.
Meds were what I forgot, and its the one thing people forget the most i heard. i kept also checking city of sb website and it was there I saw the list of homes destroyed at about 3am and was so tired Anne, saw the one home 195 Sierra Vista and read it as 135 sierra vista(my address) for 30 secs and was like fuck but then I got it. on sunday am, i saw that people were being let back into their homes and got a call at around 10:30am from my landlady that she was home and everything was ok. her son was out for 2 hours clearing ass from driveway and fruit trees. when i got there he hugged me we talked he bitched and i cleaned my room. let me tell you, he just mentioned 2 wks ago about how smart and calm i was during this event knowing i had never been through it. he said he is still impressed how well i handled that. i have my landlady to thank she kept saying have this ready and that especially when zaca fire happened, it was after gap fire she told me to register with reverse 911 and i did i never got the call but my landlady did. it was on her machine when she got back.
I miss Parma park so much they are in the hydromulching process and it will be who knows how long when I will be able to walk there again but when I do it will be so awesome and beautiful!
mountain dr, coyote, and las alturas were badly hit. and obviously you have heard that it was 10 city college fuckheads who were up ther at the tea fire area havin a bonfire(dumbasses the night before and did not extinguish the fire properly) btw, we still don't know the names of the fucks people in sb are pissed as hell about that.
i know i have bitched about sb but one thing I saw positive about this was that people were so generous...local businesses offering lodging(I could have stayed at the fess parker for free!)sandals, all kinds of shit...faxes computers..etc....i saw this community come together and that was nice to see.
and that is my tea fire story.
hope all is well with you.
btw, I remember you being notorious for reciting certain year as being the worst. well 2008 was the worst year for me on record. I got fired from my almost 23bucks an hour job with kick ass benefits on July 2, 2008. Nothing has brought down my self esteem so bad as that did. I was suicidal...I still feel really bad...but I am working with kids believe or not and I love it. I still don't want to have kids but working with them is not so much stressful as it is EXHAUSTING! I go to my job don't deal with office bullshit like i did play with kids and am off at 3:30pm...get all these holidays off but I need a another job to survive...I was lucky anne, I was able to collect unemployment and wow did it help.
what do you think about the 93 yr old man who froze to death in Bay City. Do you know I found out about it on the local sb news? I was OMG'd...