Hi Michele,

I was thinking you might be up near the Castaic Fire. It's a very scary experience. We evacuated last year for the Oak Park fires. Poor animals.

We've been watching out for the news all day in between packing and some paperwork we have to do before we leave. We're right between the Malibu and the Santa Rosa Valley fire - no visible sky here and lots of ash falling. Very hard to breathe here with the smoke and ash. Winds here are near hurricane strength and above - whirling winds. We lost some trees. No immediate fire danger. Fire is about 5 miles away but we have a ton of brush and it's VERY dry.