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I have returned home after 3 1/2 days of mandatory evacuation. The fire is still only 15% contained but wind patterns have changed and it is traveling in a different direction. I am fine, however, since Saturday there has been no power, for miles and miles and miles. Many residents have not returned to their homes. No gas stations or grocery stores open in town or the next town or the next town and. the next town is on fire. (Don’t want to go there.). i do have a generator that runs off of my propane tank. I know power will not be restored until probably after the weekend and there is no propane delivery because they too have no power. So I am using it sparingly. I do have a wood stove which normally in such situations I would use for heat (it was 29 degrees this morning) and cook but because of the fires and smoke in the air, we are being told not to use it. It’s kind of like camping out with the campfire just over the ridge, out of control and headed your way. It was a little spooky last night looking out and seeing no lights, not even the occasional car on the road nor lights far in the distance from the City of Santa Rosa. Life is full of adventures.