Jim, I guess I'm only a few miles north of Sheila here in Lakewood. And she's sure right about the smoke. It seems to be coming from just about every direction except the Pacific Ocean. It's been so heavy today, it looks like a fog....and dropping ash all over us. I can't complain though, there are an awful lot of folks out here in much worse shape but it's been a scary couple of days out here. We certainly appreciate your concern and prayers. They tell us that the winds will die down in the next 24 hours and the temps will drop into the 70's.....it sure cant be soon enough for any of us. I've been here in SoCal for well over 40 years and I've never seen anything on this scale or with this many people having to evacuate their homes. It's sad. Thanks, Jeanne Lakewood, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Giddens" <jimgidd@suddenlink.net> To: "Red River Co Tx Rootsweb" <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:23 AM Subject: [TXREDRIV] RR Co people in Cal. Fire area > Thought is would be interesting to people connected to Red River Co > It is about the 3rd e-mail update I have received through our Clarksville > high school e-mail group. > Shelia is Shelia Gamble graduate of CHS in 1960. Patsy was Patsy Petty > and Lloyd is her brother Lloyd Petty. They all live in the area of the > fires. Sheila calls now after being off e-mail due to serious health > problems. > Say a prayer for them please. > Jim G > Subject: Sheila > > > Just got through talking to Sheila by phone. She is still at home and > thinks right now that her home is out of any apparent danger. She said > that the fires were about 3-4 miles from her house but thought that the > fire fighters had the Irvine fire contained as of now. Her biggest > problem has been the smoke. She is staying in the house with all windows > and doors closed running the air conditioner. With her health problems > she doesn't need to be breathing any of this junk in. She said that she > went outside yesterday with some of her neighbors, and that they couldn't > even see the sun for all the smoke and ash in the air. Brenda and Lloyd > are in big trouble in their area though. They are packed and ready to > leave but the highways in San Diego are jammed with traffic. Something > like a half a million people have the freeways congested. If they are > forced to leave they will go to friends at Riverside then will probably go > on from there to Patsy and Roger's. Sheila said th! > at she would call if things got worse, and she would keep us posted on > Brenda and Lloyd also. > > Helen > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >