Thanks for the thoughts. Yes, 2 years ago we were 1/4 mile from the burn perimeter. Same house. We are farther away now, but in a precarious position nonetheless. I think the big difference is that firefighters had at least some ability to respond in mass and prepare themselves for the real fight (which started 4 days into the fire).
Right now, to the best o my ability to tell, they have kinda managed to seal off Geyserville and the main part of Healdsburg. They haven't yet established a perimeter around WIndsor but are massed there to try to make a stand. Meanwhile, the fire threatens to jump 101 in between Healdsburg and Windsor. They REALLy want to prevent that, because most of that area has not burned in a really long time.
Our business on the west side of SR is still under threat if that happens. Our home, on the east side, has a slight advantage (in my unprofessional opinion) in that several miles of 2017 burn zone lies between the current fire and our home. Unless of course it burns down the east face of the Mayacamas and then blows back over (always looking at the bright side?).
Anyway, we are in a mandatory evac zone. When they announced the evac of Windsor and Healdsburg yesterday we packed up and were out of our home in an hour in order to get ahead of the traffic (which we did). We arrived in Tahoe with the cold front. 20 degrees when I walked the dog this morning! Sadly, I didn't realize Rose opened WROD last week! Left pretty much everything I would need in SR :-(.
