thoughts on being evacuated.

**    I am totally OKAY! i am a tad on the hormonal side.

so..read all this and keep that in mind throughout. :)

so..we were evacuated on friday morning, after the wildfire behind our home got out of control, and uncomfortably close.

i was packing up my trunk for my mom's garage sale..my trunk was full. we had been told that the fire was 100% contained, and that we were totally fine..

and then i heard sirens around 9:30am

and then, i saw a slew of news trucks trying to interview my neighbors..

i frantically, very frantically, started freaking out.

and then the sheriff knocked on my door, and told me, very seriously, that i needed to get my things, and get out.

get out?

so..i started running.

i ripped my cords from my tower on our computer, i opened a suitcase and told lyn to throw whatever she wanted inside, i grabbed underwear (lots of tops? lol) and a few other essentials.

i booked it down to the basement and grabbed our tub of pictures and other sentimental things,

and i lastly grabbed our safe.

i was trying to talk to tyler, but i kept on starting to cry.

the sherriff was knocking agian.

that dang tub was heavy!

and i was throwing all my garage sale stuff on my front porch.

and then i was trying to be calm for lynley..but i was starting to cry again.

i remembered that i needed to take pictures.

so i started snapping, of just, everything.

and then our friends showed up.

jordan and kira grabbed all my stuff, threw it in my car, buckled lyn up, and reminded me to shut our AC off.

i ran back in to get my phone.

i was sweating. dripping sweat.

and i was just thinking..why all this panic?

oh..that's right...the mountain, the super dry mountain is on fire behind our home.

our home is in the smoke in this photo. this photo is taken from across the lake.

 i called my mom, and asked/told her that me and a slew of other people were heading to alpine..
she made beds, and opened up her house for a few of us and our kids! how nice! the kids ran outside and played, while we checked facebook for updates, and watched the news. (and while our husbands went golfing? haha)

we hung out in alpine friday and saturday, until the evacuation was lifted.

our home was never in any close proximity with flames..

but there were homes that were very close to the fire.

they said that it burned close to 5,000 acres in a day.

over 300 firefighters.

something like 1000 homes evacuated.

planes and helicopters.

on saturday morning i ran a little 5k..

and afterward as i was walking back to my car, i just kept wanting to cry.

i don't know why.

i was really tired..and i was emotional.

i never think that anything is going to happen to us.

do i  have 72 hour kits?

nope.

i wished i did.

did i slightly panic.

yes.

as i pulled out of my driveway..with a giant cloud of black smoke in my rear view mirror..

i felt..okay. shaky. like crying.

like, i had my family, and my sentimental things, and that everything was going to be fine.

i did wish that i didn't have to do all that alone.

it was hard.

but..i can do hard things.

and really, most importantly, we had charlie and soft deedee.

on our way home, lyn was crying..

"my beds all gone mom. all my toys are burned up mom!"

i didn't realize how much she picked up on..

or that she was even really worried at all.

poor thing.

i did some serious reassuring.

and all was well when we finally walked into our home.

(minus the house being something like 90 degrees!)

our mountain is still on fire..but it is now miles from us.

firefighters are still trying to contain it..

i am very grateful.

fire at night.