I Didn't Start The Fire - Part Two

Today I decided to go on a little drive and show you how close the fire was to my house.  Before we get started tho, I had a question from my good friend Joey, who  asked how the fire got started.  
Apparently a guy (age unknown) was driving his truck home, and it started overheating.  So being the smart soul that he was, instead of pulling into his driveway, he pulled onto the DRY, DEAD GRASS at the side of their house.  Yeah, because that's about as smart as say, lighting a firework in the DRY, DEAD GRASS.  The grass caught on fire, totaled his truck, and his house, and 3 other homes right along with it.
I hadn't realized until today, how close the fire really was.  For all of you that gave me hell about not evacuating, ummmm, it was close.  OK?  I admit it.  
I did a video
Disclaimer.  I blather on about useless stuff.  Don't mind my talking.  I apologize in advance for the shakiness of the video.  I was driving and recording at the same time.  You will be amazed at how close this fire came to some of these homes.  Incredible.

Again, sorry about how hard my driving/movie making skills are.  I'm sure you are all running for the medications right now.
Stay tuned for Part Three.  It will be all about the happenings in the backyard, that fateful night.

I Didn't Start The Fire.....

Or How We Started Our Summer Vacation

If you are my friend on facebook you already know that on Friday, June 29th, there was a fire that was started on the mountain by my house.  We were in the mandatory evacuation zone, but Mr. Dazee and I are rebels.   Our power went off at 9:00 pm that night, and didn't return on until last night, Saturday June 30th at 10:00 pm.  

I need to mention that it was also 99 degrees outside during the fire.  A cool 91 inside the house.  Yeah, good times.

And, the battery on my cell phone died.  *uncontrollable crying*

Oh, and our internet did not work until this morning, Sunday July 1st, at 10 am.   I'm just letting  you right now, there is no way I could have lived in the days of non air conditioning, outhouses, no internet, and my Keurig.  Just sayin.  

Did I just hear a collective, "show us photo's woman!!"  

Well alrighty then, here ya go.

Here is the very first picture when the fire started.  Taken from my back patio

The helicopters came to the fishing pond across the street from my house. This is taken from the west side door of my home.

Holding the camera in the air from the same place I actually got a photo of the copter grabbing the water (and probably a bunch of fish) 

Flying towards the fire

This guy had a longer line.  Friday night they were lined up 4 deep to get the water.  It was quite mesmerizing watching it go on.

After the evacuation was lifted at 6:00 pm Saturday Night, I went over to the park to snap some photo's.  

Here is the pond.  The water level went down quite a bit

From the same exact spot, here is a photo of my house

If you look at the mountain behind the house, that is the one that burned two years ago which  I posted about in this post.

Here is a photo of the mountain that was involved in this fire.  Where I have put the arrow there is a subdivision of homes, the fire went all the way around them, but they saved those houses.

Apparently I was a television star friday night.  My daughter and her family that live with us were not home when it happened and couldn't get home because of the evacuation.  They went to my youngest sons house and were watching the news.  They were filming the helicopters getting the water and they saw me standing in the doorway taking photo's.  Aren't you glad you can now say you know someone famous.  hehehehe

Now for your viewing enjoyment, I took a video of the copter getting the water and flying off.  

Stay tuned for the adventures after dark from the patio.  It's a page turner