Everybody in SD and SoCal OK?

[AS664]

Just wanted to make sure everybody in San Diego and Southern California is managing well with the fires and is safe. I left Carlsbad yesterday to evacuate and am in Burbank right now in LA (couldn't find any vacancy practically anywhere in Orange County). It seems like things are starting to become a bit more contained but things can change quickly.

[pdisme]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305336,00.html

At Barrett Junction, an intersection marked only by an old-fashioned roadside café, some 50 residents who refused to flee the Harris Fire gather at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. for a free meal and some survivor solidarity amid the smoking hillsides.

Last week, Leon Herzog was serving the Lamborghini Club of Southern California his famous fish fry (on the menu for the past 64 years). This week, it's among the last rag tag vestiges of a string of communities whose homes have been incinerated by the blaze.

"We've never been closed and we don't plan to be," he said.