Hey everyone. I was planning on updating our neglected blog with a report on my China trip (got back a couple weeks ago). However, jet-lag hoarded my body and mind for several days and I’m just getting around to it. Unfortunately, more pressing topics need attention, so I’ll postpone a China post (but stay tuned).
For those of you who don’t know or weren’t sure, we live in La Crescenta. We just bought a house here this summer. La Crescenta is in the middle of the biggest wildfire in California right now. It started out as a ranger station fire in La Canada (our neighbors but no real physical boundary). It has spread to Tujunga to the west and now caught us in the middle.
We are OK. We bought next to the freeway, which didn’t seem like a perfect place as it has noise, but luckily the freeway is at the bottom of the small valley, so we’re far down from the fires up the hill. My dad’s house however, where I grew up and where my brother lives with his wife and four kids, is in serious danger. Yesterday my sister-in-law Becki brought carloads of valuables over to store in our garage (which was surprisingly close to being emptied out) and later brought the four kids down. My brother and father stayed to weather it out. At about 3:30am, Ryan called to tell me he was in my driveway – the police had just evacuated them. They used the loudspeaker from the patrol car as well as the reverse 911 phone system. My dad, decided to camp it out somewhere in in his shag-carpeted pickup truck – don’t worry, he loves that kind of stuff. We were just fortunate with the timing of our house (& size) to be able to fit everyone in.
So far the fire has not been contained much and tonight is creeping closer to the top of the house-line where my dad’s house is. We’re holding all the kids pets as well. School was supposed to start tomorrow but the whole district has cancelled school tomorrow. Yeah – another day to get ready. Actually we’re heading to my mom’s at the beach in Oxnard where Ryan and family went for the night. Here’s a few photos I took last night of what’s going on:
Megan is doing fine and we are looking forward to the birth of our daughter in another week. No signs of labor yet. She’s been a trooper.We’ve got our hospital plan in place and ready for it whenever it happens.
We’ll keep you updated. In the meantime I’ve posted a few of the photos I took last night and today. You can see more in my Facebook album at:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2033336&id=1402600995&l=43396719a4
Brett
Hi guys!
I have been thinking (and worrying!) about you…glad you are safe. Megan, I hope you’re not inhaling too much smoke–I don’t want your baby to get smoked out of you! Speaking of the babe, I hope you are going to post some pictures as soon as humanly possible after she is born. Are you getting excited? Nervous? Is everything ready? Lace dresses? Pink bows?
xo, Lindsay
I didn’t realize the fire was so close to the house. That is scary….I’ll keep you all in my prayers.
I can’t wait to hear about your China trip.
Hey it’s Rachel again!
That fire was scary 
but it was fun staying at your house! luckily we’re safe and we can see the fire damage (it came to the end of our street) but we’re safe 
