I just got home from attempting to work.... after evacuating my office in Santaluz this morning and filling one car with office 
computers and files, when I got a call at about 6:30pm that preparations were being taken to evacuate the barn in Del Mar (across from the polo grounds). The head trainer lives in .. er.. well, in Ramona and was not able to get out. She called me, I had the only truck that could pull her trailer, so off I went. She would do what she could to get out... even running barricades.... but she did make it out.Dave asked me "well don't they have an evacuation plan?"... well yes... we are the evacuation plan! Currently the facility is host to an additional 450 horses from evacuated areas. "Yes.. we're evacuating the evacuation center!". A fire broke out in Morgan Run, which is on the east side of the polo grounds. We're on the west.
So now I have one car full of work computers, and another full of horse stuff..... luckily the flame was put out and I was allowed to come home and sleep a little.... hopefully I won't get a call in the morning to move out the horses... cause ladies.. lemme tell you.. the plan is to basically turn 700 horses
"loose" in the wetlands (although it's fenced in so they can't get to the roads)...... there's nowhere else for them to go.
Hopefully things will look up.. and the thought of Rancho Santa Fe going up like a Christmas Tree on Halloween will be a long distant nightmare...Sleep tight..
Raja
Pictures... The Left: view from the beach 1 block from my house. Yep... that's real color. The Right: The road in front of the office & some massive sycamores that ripped up in the Sunday night wind storm. Amazing that at my house.. not even a breeze.
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