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[Sweder]

I can't believe what I'm reading about you guys filling your fridges with red wine. Where do you keep your Guinness?

Like Andy I heard about the fires on the news this morning after reading your thread. They said a bunch of people had jumped into the ocean to escape and were being rounded up by the coastguard - sounds horrendous. A good friend of mine lives just north of San Diego (Carmel Mountain) and was in a similar situation to your son - cars loaded, everything hosed down, watching the approaching firelit skyline. Happily for him the winds dropped with the flames a half mile from his neighborhood on three sides. Me, I'd have high-tailed it out of there long before. Good luck to your nipper.