Oct 27, 2019 04:31 PM
Hi SS. I'm surprised to hear you writing about wind. There hasn't been any wind to speak of down here by San Jose. Looking out my window now, I see some movement in the plants and trees, but just a light breeze. So I was about to declare my opinion that last nights apocalyptic predictions were just another false alarm.
From the latest Sonoma map (based on NASA satellite data), it looks like the fire didn't grow explosively overnight like was feared. According to Cal Fire's 7 AM update, it's 30,000 acres, up from 25,000. Most of that growth looks like it was to the north, south and east, into the remote sparsely populated hills. Containment is about 11%. That looks like a line east of Geyserville and south towards Healdsburg.
They are still adding new evacuation orders. The two blue warning zones east and west of Santa Rosa have been upgraded to orders. They have also issued evacuation orders for some of the outlying residential parts of the city of Santa Rosa itself.
https://sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/app...22aa794617
From the location of the evacuation orders, they obviously feared that the winds would cause the fire to jump their lines and rush rapidly towards the sea. Didn't happen. But the fact that they are still adding new evacuation zones suggests that they still fear that it will.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/9986/10271...evac_o.pdf
Here's Cal Fire's latest map of the fire's actual extent. The black borders are fire lines that are already in, the red lines are where there are no fire lines.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/9985/pio_e...76_opt.pdf
From the latest Sonoma map (based on NASA satellite data), it looks like the fire didn't grow explosively overnight like was feared. According to Cal Fire's 7 AM update, it's 30,000 acres, up from 25,000. Most of that growth looks like it was to the north, south and east, into the remote sparsely populated hills. Containment is about 11%. That looks like a line east of Geyserville and south towards Healdsburg.
They are still adding new evacuation orders. The two blue warning zones east and west of Santa Rosa have been upgraded to orders. They have also issued evacuation orders for some of the outlying residential parts of the city of Santa Rosa itself.
https://sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/app...22aa794617
From the location of the evacuation orders, they obviously feared that the winds would cause the fire to jump their lines and rush rapidly towards the sea. Didn't happen. But the fact that they are still adding new evacuation zones suggests that they still fear that it will.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/9986/10271...evac_o.pdf
Here's Cal Fire's latest map of the fire's actual extent. The black borders are fire lines that are already in, the red lines are where there are no fire lines.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/9985/pio_e...76_opt.pdf