Hang in there, California: wild fires

[Aktungbby]

63,450 acres burned...2,000 just last night. 173 homes , 264 commercial properties destroyed...25 homes just last night. In Sonoma's side, 120 homes destroyed 57 damaged. 36,472 people still evacuated. CONTAINMENT IS AT 15%! Only 20% more to attain a more favorably operational 35%. Today at least the skys are blue, the sun is shining, and today I only wear a mask for Covid...not smoke! Most of my front room is currently a repository for my daughter's museum artifacts attained in a 2 Subaru convoy for safekeeping. What daddy does for baby!The two towns closest to the museum are still totally evacuated with damage. Additionally, the musum boardmember's threatend home, presumed destroyed, was saved in part by adroit firemen heros seriously 'put to it' using the swimpool's water and transferrering bugout readied valuables into one of the Jeeps. Some outbuildings and a garage were burned. These days: that's called "gettin' lucky"! Thus far, the burned CA lands would cover the entire state of Connecticut!

[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

the skys are blue, the sun is shining, and today I only wear a mask for Covid...not smoke!

I realize its Cali, but you should also be wearing pants. Imagine if you sat on a hot ember.





Semi serious question: With all the devastation on the west coast, where are all the Sasquatch?

You would think they would all be hitching on PCH to get to Hollywood.

Keep yer head down and yer powder dry. At least the locust haven't shown up yet.

[Catfish]

Heard some vineyards and vineries were burnt down, with the loss of some hundreds thousands of bottles.. i know it's only material damage but..
And only 2-5 percent of the fires under control ?

[Jimbuna]

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

Semi serious question: With all the devastation on the west coast, where are all the Sasquatch?
Keep yer head down and yer powder dry. At least the locust haven't shown up yet.

]My wife insists I'm a Yeti in my own right...as for powder, thats somthing of an issue as my 3 lbs reenacting black powder and one tube of modern for reloading 45-70 Sharps & trapdoor Springfield are in a metal trunk with my bullet lead and molds in the mancave armory,,,if the shack goes up...it really goes up!

Originally Posted by Catfish

Heard some vineyards and vineries were burnt down, with the loss of some hundreds thousands of bottles.. i know it's only material damage but..
And only 2-5 percent of the fires under control ?

15% contained. One of the museum's other board members is at Schramsburg next to the damaged Castile di Amoroso winery. They had seriously cut back the dense undergrowth and barely saved the old founder's 1850's mansion. Fortunately, most of the bottled stuff is fermenting in deep caves I love to visit but the Cabernet Sauvignon still on the vines is pretty toasted or too smokey to be used. The tourist tax for the county, a major municipal income source, already impacted by Covid(25% hotel occupancy) and residential property taxes are going to be seriously afflicted. But at least the evacuees have places to stay. So far, this season, I've not been summond for anti-looting work...always a problem in these affairs. At my age, it's tough to tell "the bad guys" (locusts! indeed!)anyway if everyone's wearing a mask!!?. EDIT: No sooner do I post this, than I note my local paper's headline: "Hotels welcome evacuees"...

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

great video...the "new normal" a calm moonlit night with mild winds helps. The fire season,still far from over: 8,200 fires; 4,000,000!! (6,250 sq. miles)acres burned; 31 dead; 8400 buildings. By comparison, the 2018 season only burned 1.67 million acres! I 'spect I'm a "closet Catholic"ie: after time in purgatory surely I shall attain paradise... even Paradise CA [82 dead 95% destroyed)didn't survive!