When you live on the coast, surrounded by an ocean and a Bay,
you do not expect to have to evacuate due to forest fires
miles away.
Then my town started catching on fire, post office burned down,
golf course set afire, hospital shut own and evacuated and
suddenly we are put on alert to flee, and only one way to go
and a 2-lane route south, toward more fires..to go it on.
Then they have to turn off all power (imagine, by choice) because
the heat was causing transformers to explode, so they preclude
this by cutting off all power.
So you are either sealed inside your house in 90* weather with no
way of cooling or you crack a window and all the smoke pours in..
or you evacuate. They draw a line on the map and at a certain point
they will force you to go, and if you go the wrong way, you will
be arrested as a terrorist (a policeman told us this.)
Anyway, we sheltered in place and the cutoff line is up the street.
The air smells fresh, the wind has changed direction, the temperatures
have dropped 20 degrees, looks good. Power back on..for now.
They have not yet allowed evacuees back.
Lincoln City, Oregon 9/10/2020
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2020/09/fires-burning-near-lincoln-city-scorch-2400-acres-determined-to-be-human-caused.html