Friday 22 Aug

The fire grew to 3000 acres overnight- mostly straight to the south. Directly toward us. Not so good. By mid afternoon the the level 3 go now line was the end of the public rd- which is a long rock throw to the north of our house. But our zone was still at level 1.

Josh A arrived late Thursday night - M45 had a gig at Brasada Ranch Friday night from 5-7. With the level 3 line so close I called the Deschutes county sheriff for some guidance since we are so close to level 3 line. She said we should live our lives as level 1, and that they would go to level 2 before they go to level 3.

So we loaded up the sound system and instruments and went to Brasada arriving at 3PM. We set up the sound system and did all our thing. Around 345 Suz gets a call from our neighbor Michelle who informs us the sheriff was just at our house and they want everyone to evacuate (for the record - Suz wanted to cancel the gig and evacuate at 1pm- she was right).

We were 20 seconds into listening to the Boxcars “Jeffreys Hell” and had to tear down the system pack up and head back to evacuate. Josh A drove home, Jered had just arrived in Redmond and now had additional quality time with his aunt. The pic below is what we saw driving north on our Rd- Mountain View Rd.

We had a significant sense of urgency when we arrived home. Fortunately we had done a bunch of evacuation prep in the morning. We loaded cats and connected the trailer etc quickly grabbing some limited stuff and headed to the RV park at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond.

the power went out shortly after we left - so our outside cameras do not work. That was very troubling.
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