Fire Update

17,000+ acres burned, and growing. Still only 5% contained, but that's a pretty huge thing when you consider that at 11pm last night, it was 3500 - 5000 acres. At 5:30 this morning, it was 7 - 10,000 acres. 3000 firefighters working on it. Miraculously, only 3 structures have been burned, which is mindboggling when you see this thing and realize that 17,000 acres is the size of a small city. Huntington Beach, California, to be precise. (puts that in perspective, doesn't it, KJ?!) It's stretched 15 linear miles east to west from where it started. I'm really worried it's going to cross the 101 and move toward Malibu. That will be Bad. It's definitely a "terrain-driven" fire, so if it crosses over to Malibu, it will most likely also burn back this way and into Topanga Canyon, which we are about 1 mile northeast of. The last big fire in this area was 33 years ago, when the house that was originally on this property burned to the ground. That's something to think about, folks. Please pray it moves AWAY from us and doesn't move back east. I so can't afford to lose everything.

Thanks,
Jenie