OT: Levi's house destroyed
Andrew Stadler
John Murphy
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John Murphy
5 AM - wife
wakes me up, the neighbor has called, her phone "is broken". We fiddle
with phones for 3-4 minutes, both calls and wireless. "I groggily say
Cell and internet are down, I think there are fires". She tells me to go
to neighbor.
5:15 AM - neighbor has an impromptu evac center for
his extended family - mostly from Larkfield or Coffey, who are
scattered around the couches. AM radio is playing with ominous stuff. I
am slowly coming awake, basically
realizing there are indeed fires and we aren't in immediate threat but
some bad things are going on.
6 AM - wife tells me to go fill the car up with gas. I get to Nature's
Market, there is a huge line. I decide to try Rotten Robbie since it's
not by the freeway, also jammed. End up at the gas station at HBG
ave/Dry Creek, takes me 20 minutes. Valero also jammed. There are
several cars and RV's parked under the freeway at Dry Creek. The gas
lines were primarily evacuees headed in the direction of Ukiah to family
- I learned that a lot of the people under the freeway pretty much had
not enough gas to get to family but no money or credit cards to pay for
more gas - either because they had not enough time to find their wallet
or were unbanked and had no cash.
7 AM - get home, vainly trying
to get any useful info, only the AM radio is going and they are focused
on real problem areas. Cannot get a text to family, run around the hill
waving the phone does little. Jill makes breakfast and I silently pack a
back "just in case"
7:30 (?) Jill says "should we just go?" I
say "I'm already packed and I really want to get the hell out of here
honestly. We can't do anything except maybe become evacuees"
9 -
we finish packing and leave. Decide to head to oakland via Hopland - "I
do not want to go near any fires and US 101 is closed".
9:45 -
Cloverdale. Phones go crazy with texts now we have cell service. Call
family and indicate to the world we are safe. We get the the first
notification that a friend's home is burned. It won't be the last 
:(
4 PM - Oakland. I go out to get food and see the first video of the fire. My shellshock goes into overdrive.