Appreciate Nathaniel for taking the time and efforts to initiate the blog!!
I am a graduate student research assistant with SDSC, also a PH.D. student in CSE,UCSD. And I came here from China in 2004. We had enjoyed UCSD and San Diego very much, and had never expected such an event would have happened here. But it did happen, all we can do is to try our best to rally together to fight with and get over it. We would all love to see a beautiful San Diego and California again, which will definitely take a lot of our courage and efforts.
Since UCSD is closed for the whole week, many students have left San Diego for safe home. After spending 2 days at home, I decided to go out to get more involved and offer some help. Together with several other Chinese students, I have been visiting 2 shelters the day before yesterday and yesterday, to see what's going on there and what we can help. The day before yesterday, for the Del Mar Fairground Shelter; yesterday, for the Qualcomm Stadium Shelter.
I created a Google Blog the day before yesterday to record what I saw and am going through here. If you get time and are interested, welcome to visit
http://glasswort9.blogspot.com Your suggestions/comments are extremely welcome on the blog. I would appreciate your taking time to read my reports very much (of course, when you guys have time and would like to :))
In my above blog (
http://glasswort9.blogspot.com), on the right sidebar, there are also links to the photos I took these few days, which look like this
(
Our Photoes during SD_WildFire * 10/24_Qualcomm_Stadium_Shelter
* 10/23_UCSD_Mesa
* 10/23_DelMar_Shelter
)
including Del Mar Fairground Shelter, UCSD Graduate Student Housing and Qualcomm Stadium.
Or, I directly give the url here, in case you guys are short of time :)
http://picasaweb.google.com/glasswortucsd/2007_10_24_QualcommStadiumShelter http://picasaweb.google.com/glasswortucsd/2007_10_23_UCSD_Mesa http://picasaweb.google.com/glasswortucsd/Del_Mar_FairGround_Shelter_1023_2007_10_SD_WildFireAfter reading my reports and viewing these pictures, some UCSD fellow students also want to go to some shelters for voluntary help. I am very glad that what I recorded can be of some help to them and others. I just started the blog yesterday, and I will keep writing and shooting... I wish I could learn a lot from you guys here.
PS. I would like to recommend another site my friends @ SDSU are making:
1) Web Mapping Services for San Diego Wildfires 2007 - Created by SDSU Students & Scholars:
http://map.sdsu.edu/ 2) San Diego Fires Wiki | TalkLinks:
http://sdfires.pbwiki.com/TalkLinksHope these info would be somewhat useful.
Wish everybody be safe and every family be safe!!
Salute all these courageous people around!!
We will be definitely OK and return to normal life soon!!
Jing Zhu
Graduate Student Research Assistant
SDSC
PH.D. Student
CSE,UCSD
