6am 8/18/17 They evidently contained it overnight and there is no smoke anywhere this morning.
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6 years ago
6am 8/18/17 They evidently contained it overnight and there is no smoke anywhere this morning.
Well done. And Phew.
I used to live in a steep canyon of redwoods and mixed hardwoods. A fire (we had several ) can race up the hill and valley due to on-shore breeze and updraft. Plenty of oxygen in cool breeze and plenty of wood product.
We maintained a all but useless road on our lower level - normal road was up-hill from the house. The lower was never repaved but I had sand filling the cracks (earthquakes) and breakage. The large pump truck and crew from Cal Fire team used it as a staging are and maintained watch from there.
Mart> 9pm 8/17/17
And here comes a Hurricane. Few this year, this one will be very wet. It will vacillate south to north gulf coast of Texas and dump a foot or two of rain.
Mart>
I wish we had -that- water dropping on the local fire today. It is now the largest in the country. The Chetco Bar fire is a bit larger than the little brush fire I had last week. It has burnt down 102,333 acres now while 1,398 firefighters fight it, and is only about 45 miles southwest of me. Luckily, the wind direction is keeping about
90% of the smoke to the south of us.- I am a Transfinancial--A rich person born in a poor person's body. Please stop the hate by sending me money to resolve my money identity disorder. --anon
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