Monday, Monday

Updated map

You can [sort of] see that the hot spots (red dots) are not so much along the northern-most edge of the fire (light red area). The thin blue line is a measurement tool in the map from the fire's edge to my house, which is the upper arrow. 7.76 miles. Far enough ... for now.

Improved situation

Last night were forecast some dry lightning and gusty winds, none of which materialized. The fire crews made good progress and have a fire line between us and the fire, so unless we get really strong winds (unlikely), it's looking quite promising.

There is only a light coat of ashes on things, as you can kind of see in this picture of the car:

The sun is peeking out today and the air quality is much better than yesterday, where we basically had to stay inside and run the air conditioner. It's still pretty smoky. Here's the view out the window:

It's supposed to look more like this: