I captured this photo off the east-looking Lyons Peak camera about 45 minutes ago, but I had trouble posting it – Google appears to be having some kind of difficulty. If you expand this photo and look closely, toward the right side of the base of the dark gray smoke, you can see flames. They're the first I've seen all day. Hopefully this is still part of the backfiring operation we heard about earlier, and not something to be worried about. It appears to be very close to where Barber Mountain road comes around the north side of Elena Mountain.
And we finally got another MODIS satellite thermal imagery pass. This time the only hotspot on the Harris Fire is the one pictured above. Three miles southeast of my house – it figures. For this shot, I cleared everything except the last 24 hours of MODIS data, so that (if you blow it up) you can see exactly where the hotspot is.News and reports from readers have slowed way down – which means that most of the folks that have been helping make this blog a great source of information for the Jamulian community are now themselves busied with things far more important that this silly blog: they're getting back home. It feels very nice – and normal – to know this is happening. With any luck at all, we'll soon be joining them. It's not looking too good for tonight (for us to return home, I mean), but perhaps tomorrow morning.
I've been thinking a lot today of all the people who have lost their home. I sure hope the rebuilding process is easier for them than it was for the people who lost their homes in the Cedar Fire – some of whom, we've read, are still trying to get their building permits…
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