PowerflyLee formerly known as CheetahLee
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I shall pray for you and others in the same situation! Keep positive!
It's fire season again
- Thread starter Sierratim
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BlackHand
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- USA
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- Western WA
Hope you're able to get back home soon. I wondered if you were in the threatened area up there.
Could be a long summer. WA has had about 3x the 10 year average number of fires so far this year. Listened to an interview with a state official who said they are already seeing fatigue with crews working 18 hr days and things are just ramping up.
Could be a long summer. WA has had about 3x the 10 year average number of fires so far this year. Listened to an interview with a state official who said they are already seeing fatigue with crews working 18 hr days and things are just ramping up.
Buckdubay
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Good luck I hope everything thing is ok with your home
AleksR
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Sorry to hear that. Wishing you all the best
Mr. Coffee
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- USA
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- A Demented Corner of the North Cascades
Good news!
The house is still there and the bike is definitely okay. I owe a dozer operator a bottle of good scotch. There is minor damage but I should be back in business soon.
The house is still there and the bike is definitely okay. I owe a dozer operator a bottle of good scotch. There is minor damage but I should be back in business soon.
PatriciaK
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- Pacific Northwest and Piedmont Triad
So happy to hear you were mostly spared! What a relief for you!
Sierratim
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- USA
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- Nevada City, CA & Paradise Valley, AZ
Took the electrics up to Beals Point State Park at Folsom Lake a couple of days ago. Folsom Dam was built starting in 1948 forming the lake that supplies much of the State's capital, Sacramento, with water. The water levels always drop through the Summer as it is released for the City, farmers, and salmon. Rains and snow pack usually bring it back to full or near full. Not this year;
I'm standing at what would normally be the water's edge this time of year. We've water skied through this area for years. Not today. The lack of a normal snow pack has put the lake 68 feet below where it was last year, another low rain year. The lake shore is now at 380 foot, down 90 feet from its rim.
It's going to be a long, dry Summer.
I'm standing at what would normally be the water's edge this time of year. We've water skied through this area for years. Not today. The lack of a normal snow pack has put the lake 68 feet below where it was last year, another low rain year. The lake shore is now at 380 foot, down 90 feet from its rim.
It's going to be a long, dry Summer.
Mr. Coffee
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- USA
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- A Demented Corner of the North Cascades
It has been a near-run thing, and likely isn't over yet. Round 2 brought the fire right up to the edge of my house:
Quick work with hoses and a couple of axes saved the house, but the hot tub is a total loss. The fire crew on site is paid for by my insurance company. Have good insurance if you live in fire country. The good news is that there isn't much unburnt material left around my house:
Note that this time the fire neatly jumped the dozer line we put in yesterday.
Quick work with hoses and a couple of axes saved the house, but the hot tub is a total loss. The fire crew on site is paid for by my insurance company. Have good insurance if you live in fire country. The good news is that there isn't much unburnt material left around my house:
Note that this time the fire neatly jumped the dozer line we put in yesterday.
Sierratim
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- Nevada City, CA & Paradise Valley, AZ
Glad your house is OK, except for the hot tub. Dang!
AleksR
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How do you feel about living in the burnt country? How long does it take for vegetation to return?
Mr. Coffee
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- USA
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- A Demented Corner of the North Cascades
I am hopefully going to replant bunchgrass on as much of it as I can get to, and likely next spring all of those burnt areas will be full of flowers. The trees are more complicated but I am likely to remove the most heavily damaged trees (I'd like to save a few because standing dead trees are popular bird habitat).
So it will be ugly this year (and real ugly if we get some huge rains) but next year should be fine.
Sierratim
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- USA
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- Nevada City, CA & Paradise Valley, AZ
We've had smoke in the air the last couple of days. The air quality isn't too bad, but the sunlight yesterday was orange tinted.
There aren't any local fires, but there are large fires to the N & S of us. Local news says the smoke is being blown in by light winds from the Dixie fire to the N of us. This fire is currently the State's largest of the season at 191,000 acres and 21% containment;
www.plumasnews.com
There are a number of fires burning in N California now;
...and it's still very early in our fire season. 
There aren't any local fires, but there are large fires to the N & S of us. Local news says the smoke is being blown in by light winds from the Dixie fire to the N of us. This fire is currently the State's largest of the season at 191,000 acres and 21% containment;
July 25 morning update on the Dixie Fire - destruction increases - Plumas News
It’s July 25 – five months before Christmas — and Plumas County residents would like an early present this year...
www.plumasnews.com
There are a number of fires burning in N California now;
Prairie Dog
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- Canada
- City
- Red Deer
There 240 wildfires currently burning in BC and the traveling smoke is creating a light haze in my hometown of Red Deer, AB. We cycled an out and back along the Icefields Parkway two days ago when the conditions looked similar to what is shown on the smoke map today at around the same time when we started our ride. That all changed within an hour or so.
Sierratim
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- USA
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- Nevada City, CA & Paradise Valley, AZ
At ~3PM our blue skies turned orange as smoke filled the sky. Everything is still orange and very dim.
Within minutes we could see a smoke column rising over the trees to our south. It's the new Bear River Fire. It's over 500Ac now, and growing quickly. The nearby town of Colfax has been ordered to evacuate.
Pic from our business in Colfax just after 3PM today. We have evauated the property.
Our go bag is also packed.
Within minutes we could see a smoke column rising over the trees to our south. It's the new Bear River Fire. It's over 500Ac now, and growing quickly. The nearby town of Colfax has been ordered to evacuate.
Pic from our business in Colfax just after 3PM today. We have evauated the property.
Our go bag is also packed.
reed scott
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Praying for you and your family as well as your property.
Sierratim
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- USA
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- Nevada City, CA & Paradise Valley, AZ
Art, on local roads it's maybe 30 minutes to our business in Colfax, but it's less than 10 miles as the crow flies. The advancing edge of the fire is ~8 miles away now.
No masks for smoke. If you wait that long it's too late. We had our business evacuated before the announced mandatory evacuation so our manager could be sure any tenants onsite were informed, that auto gates were opened, doors and windows were closed, etc, and there was still time to drive calmly out of town with little traffic and no smoke.
Art Deco
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- USA
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- Selinsgrove Pennsylvania
Just too much for me. Welcome back to California, I guess.
