I left my house at 1:00PM Wednesday to go help a friend remodel his bathroom, and I didn't get home until about eight or nine on Thursday. They had all of the routes roadblocked.

My house was basically two ridges away from the inferno, about 1-2 miles as the crow flies. Fortunately, I was West of it, so the winds kept it going the other direction. But if you recall any references to Old Stage, Lefthand, or Lee Hill being closed, that's my neck of the woods.

They wouldn't even let local traffic enter, but fortunately my dog and cat made it through just fine ( I wasn't able to reach them for a day and a half.) I didn't even have any of that soot on my property some people reported.

Anyways, everything is back to normal again.