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About two weeks ago, the fire started. This was Wednesday evening and I went and sat out on my driveway at like 2.30 in the morning.

And I was just kind of sitting there because summertime nights are my favorite thing in the whole world because it's like warm and dark.

I looked up at the street light that was right above me and it looked like it was snowing.

I was like, this is really odd and I didn't have my contacts in. I had my glasses on so I thought maybe it's just my glasses.

So I got my cell phone and turned the flashlight on and turned my phone upside down.

It was pointed up to the sky and I mean it was snowing but it was ash.

You could actually see my footprints on our driveway and I actually couldn't figure out what was going on.

And then I remembered I was like, oh yeah, there's that fire. I was like, wow, the wind must have picked up or something.

And so I just looked up on my phone like redding fire, like redding area fire, fire near redding.

Like anything I could possibly find out and there was like nothing.

And so I went to sleep and Jeff, he woke me up at like 9.30 or 10 and he was just like, hey babe, you know not to be alarmed and like that.

And before I could even get the next words out.

Before even said anything I said we're going to have to leave aren't we? And he said I don't want to alarm you but I think we might just want to start thinking about it.

There's a chance we might have to leave today. We have to just watch it because it's, you know, you can see it getting closer.

There's this very odd thing that happens when there is an impending catastrophe.

It's like a movie. You get excited almost like, oh gosh, like the fire is getting close and we should get our stuff.

You know, like you get this very strange emotion and it wasn't like, oh we're excited for a house to burn down.

It was like, that's the only word that we could put on it. It was like adrenaline mixed with nervousness mixed with, oh my gosh.

And then I think around 3.30 it was still clearly growing and in the smoke was getting closer.

You can actually see flames from our neighborhood. You know, in just engulfing some of the trees.

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