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So, my hubby got the word to come in today and he’s there (though I can’t reach him right now – probably in a meeting). But to give you an idea of where he’s at, I combined the OC register burn area map and then a blue box I drew of where his work is. Click here to see it in a new window.

So yah the Glenn Ranch Road part – that’s his only way out and the burn area actually shows being on part of the road. And that whole square below it is his work (it’s a big area).

It takes a long time just to get out of the parking lot to get to Glenn Ranch – he sat there for an hour and a half yesterday.

So…. um, yah why are they there? Sigh.

Oh and my power keeps fluctuating

Nick got home safe and is on his way to church now. It doesn’t look like he’s going to work tomorrow. His boss said she’d call him in the morning to let him know what’s up. Nick usually leaves at 6 so she won’t call him then, so he’ll have to keep an eye on the latest info for the Foothill Ranch fire to figure out whether to head in or not.

Ok, so over an hour and a half after Nick told me he was leaving he is finally clear of the little road and the big danger zone. Now he is on a fun journey of trying to get home. It will take him quite a while most likely but he’ll find a way around all the junk. He usually takes Santiago Canyon eventually getting to Cannon (which is Imperial Hwy) then up over to Serrano, then down Weir Canyon. So, yah, he can’t go anywhere close to his normal way, hehe.

So he’ll probably go the way he went yesterday which took him an hour and a half from this point, so I’ll see him close to 6:30 and then he has to fly down to the church in Fullerton to give our worship leader his keys so he can get into the building for practice (which starts at 7pm). Nick has our worship leader’s keys because he led worship last week while the worship leader was out of town. Nick is supposed to play this week, thus be a part of tonight’s practice but I don’t know if he’ll have the energy after all this, but who knows, it’s guitar – anything is possible.

Thank goodness he’s not by the flames anymore.

I am off to get Aidan from daycare. Have a good night everyone.

Oh and sooner or later I will post about my 10 year HS reunion that I went to on Sat night

So I just got off the phone with Nick. I was hoping he was clear of the area by now since I last talked to him just before 3:30 and now it’s 20 after 4. But no, he’s stuck on the road, and they had the only branch off from that road blocked, so they’re just stuck all trying to get out this tiny road. I am so mad at his work for waiting until they got “official word” blah blah. Now everyone is in danger. His work is in a rural area basically on its own down a one lane road. That’s where he’s stuck.

Nick said everyone is being an a$$hole not letting people in, trying to maneuver around other cars to get ahead. It’s a panic / stampede line but with cars instead of people. So he’s still sitting there. I asked him where’s the fire in relation to you and he said “I’m looking at it”. His car has a thermostat and it’s 100 degrees outside his car. He has his A/C on but now has been sitting with the car on so long he’s down to less than a 1/4 tank of gas. And it’s not like there’s a gas station anytime soon. Not that he’s getting anywhere.

I know he’ll be ok, he has to be – but I hate that he has to sit in that. I can’t believe that fire officials, law enforcement, and a corporation would be so stupid as to put all these people in this situation. The evacuation order (I found out) at the time was actually voluntary – um, I guess they didn’t realize how many people work there? There’s not thinking ahead for ya. But the security guys at Nick’s work advised that everyone go and so his work issued the evacuation order stating that the Fire Dept said it was voluntary, but they wanted everyone to go.

Ok, so now they’re out and it’s been about an hour now and he’s just sitting there staring at the fire and his work.

….. waiting to hear he’s out of the area …..

So Nick just called me and let me know that his work is being evacuated. They are in Foothill Ranch, and the fire has been across the street all day today. I am surprised they didn’t have them go sooner considering over 1,000 people have to leave from the building and parking lot all at once. There’s one way out, so I hope it doesn’t get too jammed.

All the other businesses around them have been closed but his work has been pretty strict about trying to maintain normal working schedules. It’s actually unlike them to be so strict about something from what we’ve experienced so far with Nick working there, but I guess they just didn’t want to give in to panic or something? I guess it’s a lot of money to lose to send that many people home. Anyway, glad they are getting out of there now that they’ve been given evacuation orders.

It’s been crazy with him trying to get to and from work this week because he takes Santiago Canyon to get to work, and the alternate route of the 5 has been closed on and off. And when it was open it was deadlocked and not worth getting on anyway.

I hope all the people in the different fire areas are ok. I read on Kristi’s blog that there was a fire yesterday right by us, but I didn’t really see it or hear much else about it. I just know that Nick said the cops had it all blocked off on Weir Canyon. So maybe the fire there is out now that I can’t see anything from my house? I don’t know, there’s just lots of smoke everywhere from all the fires here.

I am sure Nick will make it home safely and all… but I’ll still feel much better once he’s away from the fire and home.