On 08/19/2020 05:52 PM, Arlen Holder wrote:
A few more fire weather-related world-wide real-time sites a

o Realtime lightning strikes map around the world
https://i.postimg.cc/k5M8HQL0/lightning-realtime-strikes.jpg
http://www.lightningmaps.org

I saw one like that. I unplugged the ethernet cable and lightning
continued striking for as long as I cared to watch.

o Realtime wind direction and wind force maps around the world
https://i.postimg.cc/C5xQLnZX/realtime-wind-direction.jpg
https://www.windy.com/37.340/-121.890?36.712,-121.569,7

o Realtime wildfire alert cameras around the world
https://i.postimg.cc/mkVhCJgh/wildfirecams.jpg
http://www.alertwildfire.org/southeastbay/index.html?camera=Axis-Mission2&v=518dd6b

"Mandatory" evacuation here doesn't mean that you must leave. It means
that if you do leave, you aren't allowed back in. I left too early
during the Woolsey Fire, before there was an evacuation order, before
police and roadblocks were everywhere. I was locked out for a month.

During one of my daily attempts to get back in, there was an SUV parked
just the other side of the roadblock, the INside, and I asked the
officer about it.

It belonged to area residents, who would leave the vehicle parked there
while they went to town or wherever. When they returned, they were
allowed to climb back in their SUV and drive away into the evacuated
area! Since that SUV was never driven across a roadblock to exit the
area, it technically did not evacuate. The cops were only following the
letter of the law, and didn't interfere.

If you evacuate a fire area, and your family has more than one vehicle,
try to leave one on the inside.