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Post by Pat on Aug 21, 2020 20:21:04 GMT -5
Very smoky here near and far. Surrounded by fires. However, it hasn’t jumped past the city limits into San Jose yet. When I open the front door to go get the newspaper first thing in the morning, the smell is strong. Sun blocked by smoke.
We have enough marshmallows, but can’t use our little hibachi. New alerts all day from district, city, county, and state.
My sympathies are with the firefighters. We’re having a heat wave along with the fires.
We’re fine. Hope everyone else is.
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 21, 2020 20:49:52 GMT -5
My stepson is a firefighter here in Rapid City, SD. He and a crew were headed down to help out in CA, but they were sent home by CA prior to them getting past WY. I guess California changed their mind on the help - financially driven I'm assuming.. It's been hazy all day here. Radio said the smoke from the CA fires was taking a high altitude trip across country. We were able to actually look directly at the sun as it was still setting. That doesn't happen very often. Our thoughts and prayers are with all the folks in California. I know we're dry as a tinder box out here and the smallest thing is going to set off major grassland fires out here as well...
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 21, 2020 20:58:40 GMT -5
Very smoky here near and far. Surrounded by fires. However, it hasn’t jumped past the city limits into San Jose yet. When I open the front door to go get the newspaper first thing in the morning, the smell is strong. Sun blocked by smoke. We have enough marshmallows, but can’t use our little hibachi. New alerts all day from district, city, county, and state. My sympathies are with the firefighters. We’re having a heat wave along with the fires. We’re fine. Hope everyone else is. Pat, you are one of the RTHlings I was concerned about. Tommy is another. I called , my brother last night, he lives in Sunnyvale. He said the Santa Cruz fire was the closest to him, but not a threat at the time. He said he stepped out for a smoke in the evening, and the smoke from the fires was terrible. (Yet, by smoking a cigarette he was sucking other bad stuff in. Yuk!). He said the inside of his condo smells of smoke.
Any others near the fires, please check in. Hoping for the best for everyone.
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Post by Pat on Aug 21, 2020 21:15:47 GMT -5
Hope Tommy and the rest check in soon. Napa and Vacaville hit hard. Sunnyvale is about 13 miles closer to Santa Cruz than we are. I can see blue sky now and some white clouds. Thanks rockpickerforeverA sub headline this morning. “Officials bemoan lack of personnel available to battle all the blazes”. ...short handed crews warn they don’t have the manpower they need to contain blazes that threaten to swallow up neighborhoods and entire towns”. jasoninsd
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 21, 2020 21:24:51 GMT -5
Hope Tommy and the rest check in soon. Napa and Vacaville hit hard. Sunnyvale is about 13 miles closer to Santa Cruz than we are. I can see blue sky now and some white clouds. A sub headline this morning. “Officials bemoan lack of personnel available to battle all the blazes”. ...short handed crews warn they don’t have the manpower they need to contain blazes that threaten to swallow up neighborhoods and entire towns”. jasoninsd That just floors me! I know we're closer to the Colorado fires, but he's been down to help out in Arizona when they had bad fires a few years ago. About a week ago he got the call to go to California. He and his whole crew were shocked when they were told to stop in Wyoming as California was changing their mind and then proceeded to rescind the request for help...
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Post by Tommy on Aug 21, 2020 21:46:22 GMT -5
Very smoky here near and far. Surrounded by fires. However, it hasn’t jumped past the city limits into San Jose yet. When I open the front door to go get the newspaper first thing in the morning, the smell is strong. Sun blocked by smoke. We have enough marshmallows, but can’t use our little hibachi. New alerts all day from district, city, county, and state. My sympathies are with the firefighters. We’re having a heat wave along with the fires. We’re fine. Hope everyone else is. Pat, you are one of the RTHlings I was concerned about. Tommy is another. I called , my brother last night, he lives in Sunnyvale. He said the Santa Cruz fire was the closest to him, but not a threat at the time. He said he stepped out for a smoke in the evening, and the smoke from the fires was terrible. (Yet, by smoking a cigarette he was sucking other bad stuff in. Yuk!). He said the inside of his condo smells of smoke.
Any others near the fires, please check in. Hoping for the best for everyone.Thank you everyone, sorry for not checking in sooner. We're doing fine here - we're on the north west side of Napa and not in any fire danger and the air quality has been good but today it turned smokey, really smokey. We're getting the smoke from the fire up near Healdsburg which is west of us. It's surreal watching the volcano sized plumes of smoke lifting off the ridgeline on the east side of Napa valley - seems like it's never going to end. What I mourn the most is what ANOTHER major fire will do to the valley. I work in a job directly dealing with wine tourism and we just got back to work after being off for four months due to Covid... after only barely recovering from the fires of 2017, 2018, and 2019. This is devastating, like it can't be happening all over again - but it is. Our biggest bit of excitement/worry/near-panic/etc. the past few days regarding the fires has been my youngest son and his VERY pregnant wife who live in north Fairfield on the border of Vacaville. Several nights ago we all watched as the fire approached them and thought to ourselves there was no WAY the fire could jump the 10-lane hwy 80 ... but it did. This is how close it came to them Their neighborhood has burned before many years ago and all the oldtimers were out wetting down their houses and fences. My son and his wife's house is marked with the black arrow - we are the blue arrow in north Napa. For anyone not familiar with the area this fire has covered a MASSIVE amount of land. Lake Berryessa is a huge lake and one of my favorite spots on earth and I'm still in shock that it has gotten hit yet again - 3rd time in four years Meanwhile... I mentioned that my daughter in law was super pregnant ... well this happened about three hours ago after a 30 hour labor that ended in C-section:
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 21, 2020 22:14:45 GMT -5
All you folks in CA stay safe out there!
I heard on the news this morning that AZ was sending firefighters to help this morning.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 21, 2020 22:52:13 GMT -5
Hope Tommy and the rest check in soon. Napa and Vacaville hit hard. Sunnyvale is about 13 miles closer to Santa Cruz than we are. I can see blue sky now and some white clouds. Thanks rockpickerforever A sub headline this morning. “Officials bemoan lack of personnel available to battle all the blazes”. ...short handed crews warn they don’t have the manpower they need to contain blazes that threaten to swallow up neighborhoods and entire towns”. jasoninsd I know Calfire sent resources north to help with the fires. An, like usual, people always ask if they'll still be able to put out fires here. And they always say, we don't loan out more resources than we can afford to. Tommy good to hear from you, and congratulations on the new grandbaby!! 30 hours of labor, oof! Wouldn't wish that on anybody Glad everyone is safe.
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 21, 2020 23:21:02 GMT -5
Awwwww..... Congrats on your new grandbaby!
Good to hear your doing well, but by that map, it still looks dangerous to me. Y'all be safe.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 22, 2020 0:29:29 GMT -5
My stepson is a firefighter here in Rapid City, SD. He and a crew were headed down to help out in CA, but they were sent home by CA prior to them getting past WY. I guess California changed their mind on the help - financially driven I'm assuming.. I think you are on to something there, Jason. Newsom, the flakey Democratic governor of CA asks for help, firefighting crews from South Dakota start heading this way to help, and he sends them back. Then, several hours ago, he asked for help from Australia: California fires: Governor asks Australia for help
How does that make sense?? Why would he do that? What is his game? May have something to do with getting Federal money to pay back another country (Australia), but he'll stiff other outfits in the US? They're not called demon rats for nothing. Politics...
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Post by parfive on Aug 22, 2020 3:10:08 GMT -5
Yeah, how weird is that . . . askin’ Oz for help? You people* got short memories. January 2020 - More than 170 U.S. firefighters are helping their Australian counterparts battle the nation’s worst blazes ever.
. . . some of America’s most versatile firefighters, mostly from Southern California, are laboring to help the Australians
Remember three of ‘em died in a tanker crash down there?
Newsom expressed gratitude to fellow governors in states ranging from Texas to Washington who have sent equipment to help battle the blazes.
"We now are engaged formally with mutual aid from 10 different states. We've been on the phone with governors all throughout the United States, not just the Western states, trying to reach out as far as the East Coast to see if we can get resources here into the state of California," he added. "And not one governor has not been responsive."
Still, Reuters reported that — according to a spokesperson for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known better as Cal Fire — of the 375 out-of-state fire crews California has requested, only 45 have arrived.
Newsom blamed the manpower shortfall on increasing fire conditions in neighboring Western states.
At least fifteen states currently fighting wildfire. * I’m bein’ polite here : )
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 22, 2020 8:59:26 GMT -5
Yeah, how weird is that . . . askin’ Oz for help? You people* got short memories. January 2020 - More than 170 U.S. firefighters are helping their Australian counterparts battle the nation’s worst blazes ever.
. . . some of America’s most versatile firefighters, mostly from Southern California, are laboring to help the Australians
* I’m bein’ polite here : ) Yes, I do have a short memory. I can't remember things that happened a month ago, let alone back in January. But ten, twenty, forty years ago no problem. It's the short term memory that goes first...
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 22, 2020 9:12:34 GMT -5
Yeah, how weird is that . . . askin’ Oz for help? You people* got short memories. January 2020 - More than 170 U.S. firefighters are helping their Australian counterparts battle the nation’s worst blazes ever.
. . . some of America’s most versatile firefighters, mostly from Southern California, are laboring to help the Australians
* I’m bein’ polite here : ) Yes, I do have a short memory. I can't remember things that happened a month ago, let alone back in January. But ten, twenty, forty years ago no problem. It's the short term memory that goes first... They say the first two things to go are memory and...ummm...something else, I can't remember what it is...
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 23, 2020 19:28:11 GMT -5
Late yesterday afternoon we had quite the storm come through. My neighbor sent me this video she took of it coming in:
Here's what happened at my house:
I'm so bummed we lost this tree. On top of being a great sun screen blocking the late afternoon sun coming in the studio, it was also the favorite perch of the Cooper Hawks to eat their meals.
Now I have the task tomorrow of calling and getting quotes from tree services to cut it up and haul it away.
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 23, 2020 19:35:35 GMT -5
Late yesterday afternoon we had quite the storm come through. My neighbor sent me this video she took of it coming in:
Here's what happened at my house:
I'm so bummed we lost this tree. On top of being a great sun screen blocking the late afternoon sun coming in the studio, it was also the favorite perch of the Cooper Hawks to eat their meals.
Now I have the task tomorrow of calling and getting quotes from tree services to cut it up and haul it away.
Bummer. I know what it's like to lose a tree. Our neighbor had theirs cut down. It blocked most of the southern exposure.
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Post by mohs on Aug 23, 2020 19:40:42 GMT -5
uuuuggggggghhhhhhhh
some of these storms are vicious
I don't understand how the Palo Verde tree which is AZ state a tree as survived?
Its incredible that these mohsoon storms tear them from limb to limb. There down everywhere
Ya'dya thunk these desert plants would be more naturally resilient ? Especially because of cyclic nature o f these desert storm?
or maybe in some strange way that how they propagate ?
anyway now that this is on my mind I'll have to go out and get some pictures....
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Post by EricD on Aug 23, 2020 19:48:59 GMT -5
Late yesterday afternoon we had quite the storm come through. My neighbor sent me this video she took of it coming in:
Here's what happened at my house:
(Snip pictures)
I'm so bummed we lost this tree. On top of being a great sun screen blocking the late afternoon sun coming in the studio, it was also the favorite perch of the Cooper Hawks to eat their meals.
Now I have the task tomorrow of calling and getting quotes from tree services to cut it up and haul it away. Sorry you lost the tree and the shade. Hope nothing else was damaged. Maybe the hawks like you and will still come around!
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Post by Pat on Aug 23, 2020 20:00:41 GMT -5
We need our trees! Sorry you lost some. That was quite a wind.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 23, 2020 20:12:03 GMT -5
Bummer. I know what it's like to lose a tree. Our neighbor had theirs cut down. It blocked most of the southern exposure.
It really sucks losing a good tree. We've had a few taken down that were half dead and were a liability, but they were Cottonwoods so no loss there.
This guy was probably at least 40 feet high and really blocked the afternoon sun. Good news is the garden center in Prescott has one in a 15 gal. pot, so we may replace it with that. They grow fast, so it may be a decent height before I die.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 23, 2020 20:17:04 GMT -5
Sorry you lost the tree and the shade. Hope nothing else was damaged. Maybe the hawks like you and will still come around!
We truly lucked out. The only thing the tree fell on was a little apple tree that was half dead anyway and needed to be cut down. It's buried under there somewhere, probably flatter than a pancake. If it would have fell in the other direction, the greenhouse would have been a goner.
Heard one of the hawks clucking this morning. Probably wondering what the heck happened. They nest in the cypress directly behind the greenhouse. Hopefully this won't make them change their minds next year.
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