NASA’s high-resolution satellite flew over Southern California Sunday afternoon. This is what it saw. The fire you see outlined on the right side of the picture is burning in an area called Agua Dulce, which is south-by-southwest from Palmdale. You can see a little smudge that looks like a baseball diamond made of brown dirt on the eastern edge of the shot – that’s a dry lake located on Edwards Air Force Base. Draw a line from the northeastern corner of the fire zone near Agua Dulce to “home plate” on the dry lake, and that’s about where Soffit House is located.
UPDATE: My previous description of where my house would be located on the map is, as my friend Spungen points out, incomplete. Go about four-fifths of the way south along the line I describe from the dry lake to the outlined corner of the fire. According to an interactive map from Newsweek, the “Buckweed Fire” in Agua Dulce is about 13 miles from my home (Spungen’s home is even closer to it than mine, unfortunately).
I’m glad your doing ok (so far). If I remember Palmdale/Lancaster, you’re up in the highdesert and there’s not a whole lot to burn. I hope my recollections are correct.
oh yeah, looks like TN got some rain!
Dude, you’re nowhere near Edwards or any dry lake. I must be misunderstanding your baseball diamond diagram.
Poorly-written, I agree. About four-fifths of the way south on the line I describe is where Soffit House would be.
Have they contained the Agua Dulce fire yet? I hope that you guys are still safe.
Yes, it’s all under control now. There are still a lot of fires and we haven’t seen blue skies for days. We had just s splash of rain yesterday and that may clear out the air a bit; we’ll see today.