Current mood: crushed What a crazy last 3 days. Sunday- The Santa Ana winds were blowing like crazy, dry desert heat. I had a really really bad feeling all day. Monday- 2:30 am in the morning. I smell smoke, jump out my bed, look out the windows and I see lots of neighbors up, looking around trying to figure out whats going on. Hence the San Marcos Carlsbad Hills fire has started, as the Witch Creek Fire which was far away has started as well. 3:00 am, I start packing emergency evacuation items. 4:00 am, Sheriffs come by the whole San Elijo Hills area and enforce mandatory evacuation. Take the dog and my girlfriend and head to my brothers house in Hidden Meadows. I swerved to miss 4 downed trees along the way to his house.When we arrive my brother who works for the city of Escondido was called into work early, he has to supply food and diesal gas to the firefighters on the line in the south Escondido area all day. I also get a call from my cousins wife who lives in North Rancho Bernardo to tell me they were evacuated along with my grandparents and they went to my Aunts in Rancho Penasquitos. My girlfriends mom calls in the afternoon to say she cant get to her home in the Lake Arrowhead area as they wont let her back up the mountain, she had left her house early am to go to work. Afternoon time, I find out my cousins, grandparents and my aunt in Penasquitos get evacuated and go to another cousins in Vista. My aunts husbands Mom also gets evacuated from Fallbrook.Everyone is glued to the TV all day watching all these fires and evacuations. Evening time, my brothers wifes Mom gets evacuated from Escondido and comes to stay where we are. I also call my mom up in Valley Center to let her know she is most likely gonna be evacuated from Valley Center and to be ready. My brother comes home and says his boss told him to get a couple hours of sleep as he will probably get called in again soon. 9:30pm, I go to sleep Tuesday-7:00 am , I hear noise in the house, I smell smoke. Jump out of bed, my Mom had just arrived as she was evacuated from Valley Center, she has 2 dogs with her. The smoke is everywhere and the ash is flying everywhere. 5 minutes later a friend of my sister in laws arrives and tells us we are being evacuated. 5 minutes later my brother arrives to start evacuating his family, 2 kids, 2dogs (1 very big Saint Bernard, took 2 of us to lift him into the back of my brothers truck) and also 2 cats. 5 minutes later the Sheriffs come by and tell us we gotta go now! We split up into 2 locations as I called a neighbor from San Elijo Hills and he says its ok here in my community(where I live) now. So we my girlfriend, my dog and I come home. The rest go to another house in Escondido which is now safe to go back to. Daytime: Glued to the TV all day, alot of smoke where I live and the Del Dios(Witch Creek) fire is near. Wind is blowing in a North West direction all day. I am very concerned as a fire 10 years ago whipped through this whole valley and destroyed everything. Harmony Groove area is evacuated at 1pm. That is a valley right next to me. At 5pm the winds totally die down and the firefighters and dropping with Helicopters, using water from Lake Hodges to dampen the Del Dios fire. Nightime: Go to bed at 10:30, wandering if we are gonna get evacuated again, as the Santa Ana Winds usually kick up between 12am and 7 am. Wednesday Morning-7:00 am I wake up and no smoke heading my way. Hooray!! To this point over 560,000 people have been evacuated throughout San Diego County. Over 1,300 houses have been destroyed and many fires are still blazing, many planes from across the USA have been brought into San Diego, including a massive plane brought in from Canada. Ill keep you posted !