Having one hell of a month. First off the shop I work at Moreland Choppers caught fire and burnt up one of the owners bikes a fully restored $25000 65 panhead. and a customers crappy POS. I lost a sterio and the charger to my drill, Lucky Me :) We think a bum was sleeping on our park bench and maybe tossed a sigarette in the trash and caught it on fire and then spead to the building.
Now my house is /was in jeopardy of going up in smoke because of eight fires going on at once.  Fire is up in Malibu with scattered fires down too Valley Center and still moving South. I was literaly in a horse shoe of fire. Fire got withina a miles of my house just up on the hill. Same thing three years ago with the Cedar fire. Fire came over the hill and then went out or moved south of us. I'm outta danger now but my parents maybe having to visit me here soon. Fires got so bad that we only had one way outta here through hwy 78 which was on fire a few off ramps down from the detour route.
My buddy Mike some of you have talked with him, he was evacuated out early morning and spent the day at my place. Hes now back home to his now ashy apartment complex.
Ash is everywhere he told me. Here its stilll just smokey because winds are still blowing pretty hard keeping ash from settling. Winds gusted upto 50mph just pushing the flames. Got some early morning pics up at Mikes new website. . We use it to setup next ride days. Sign up if youd like. 

http://www.musclecross.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=27

Theres a couple short videos and some pics of the smokey sky
No other pics were taken much later, we were trying to stay inside out of the smoke.