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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: ergophobe on August 30, 2017, 07:04:36 PM
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This roof in the foreground is the building that I work in. Road is closed (as is one of the other main roads from here)
http://prntscr.com/gf2f78
http://www.sierrastar.com/news/local/article170176297.html
This is the small store across the street from where I work
https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/21246522_1587353561328572_3322983574846848090_o.jpg?oh=dcd6ecc6194d9bdd03c9f0d5370fa18c&oe=5A1C92D4
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Parking lot of where I work
https://www.facebook.com/CoryJamesABC30/videos/vb.460647567454214/697735817078720/?type=2&theater
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Looks to be time to put down the keyboard and get the hell outta Dodge, EG.
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Stay safe Ergo & Theresa.
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That fire (Railroad Fire) is near work, which is about 15 miles away.
There's actually another fire (South Fork Fire) *between* here and there which is past peak. And then about 4-5 miles away is *another* fire (Empire Fire) closing another road. That one I'm sort of worried about. Helicopter hovering overhead as I type this
I just posted since it's in the news, and whenever there's Yosemite news and I don't post about it, Mr Mackin gets on me.
But here's a map for the curious and the bored
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Stay safe.... I was not aware of it. Seems you folks have fire and flood on the continent, makes a damp windy summer seem a mild complaint :)
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STAY SAFE
You have PLEASED ME with your excellent report ;)
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Wow, stay safe Tom & Theresa! That looks scary!
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STAY SAFE
You have PLEASED ME with your excellent report ;)
That made me laugh. Like the gods have been appeased.
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>Like the gods have been appeased.
It's sorta an inside admin joke from eons ago, when admins ruled the earth.
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"You may call me MISTER Mackin."
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"You may call me MISTER Mackin."
I don't need reminding. I know my place.
Mr Mackin gets on me.
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>MISTER Mackin
That was a post of his at WmW. What an a##hole. I should have banned him, hhh.
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Meanwhile, in Montana
Glacier Park's historic Sperry Chalet burns down
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/glacier-park-s-sperry-chalet-burns-down/article_79c91852-3ba9-53c8-9bc8-ad6b96168641.html
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The smoke is actually pretty thick all the way out here today, and there is record heat all over the West coast.
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Meanwhile, in Montana
Glacier Park's historic Sperry Chalet burns down
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/glacier-park-s-sperry-chalet-burns-down/article_79c91852-3ba9-53c8-9bc8-ad6b96168641.html
Guess where we're headed in a week?
Out of the fire, into the frying pan, as the saying goes. At least the first half is not even metaphorical
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My feed is full of fire articles and I haven't tweaked any kws.
>headed
Don't go to L.A.
Also, fire 16 miles from Burning Man. I didn't know playas could burn.
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>Don't go to LA
My brother in law and his family are in Montrose and the La Tuna Canyon fire is getting a bit too close for comfort.
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>Don't go to LA
One of my kids is on her way to Disneyland and just took this pic from 101.
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>Don't go to LA
If you ever plan to go to "Southern California" make it Orange County. Fly into SNA
IMO ;)
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Firefighters in California were battling 19 large wildfires statewide, officials said Sunday, including a brush fire that was being called the largest ever in Los Angeles.
In all, more than more than 12,000 pairs of boots were on the ground battling the fires, and temperatures on Sunday were up to 20 degrees hotter than usual.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/09/03/19-wildfires-burn-california/629963001/
It was 109 degrees at the coast, 106 in SF -- like the state has been thrown into a toaster oven.
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New fire broke out in our county today. That's four significant fires that currently or recently resulted in evacuations (3/4) or road closures (4/4). And to top it all off, another road closed for a few hours tonight because a tree fell on a car
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found this map:
http://disasterresponse.maps.arcgis.com/apps/PublicInformation/index.html?appid=4ae7c683b9574856a3d3b7f75162b3f4
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Getting a little tired of the completely over the top reporting... so I made a couple of news videos. Here's the first one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfqmAxgeKA
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Very funny... you have too much time on your hands Tom :)
Thats a good thing....
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It MUST be true!
I saw it on the WWW
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Those were enjoyable Tom. Also, it's good to know what you sound/look like. I have a tendency to build an image my head of people from reading their writing. I was pretty far from the mark.
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you have too much time on your hands Tom
First off, I don't believe there is such a thing. As my variation of the WC Fields quote goes: I've spent half my life wandering around lost in the wilderness, and the other half I wasted.
They didn't take long. The only part that took any time was making the inset photo that "melted" Half Dome.
But basically, the genesis of those is that Theresa wanted to test the microphone on her SLR and her iPhone and told me to start speaking, so I did, and I was feeling a bit ranty regarding the way certain things get covered.
The plus side of bad media coverage: the best time to come to Yosemite is typically any time the media is telling you it's dangerous. Spent the day tooling around the Valley, with ample parking everywhere. Very pleasant day. As opposed to when the media reported (falsely) that the waterfalls were the biggest they had been in 30 years.
I was pretty far from the mark.
Yes, I've been told I'm much taller in writing.
I used to play that game with our rental guests. Now that we're up to several hundred over the years, I have yet to come close once. I try now not to build a picture, but it's hard not to.
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>taller
You project more grit than I imagined. Somehow I pictured a little curly haired guy with a mustache and more of a vegan type of build. Sorry.
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Ha ha! Though not a vegan, I *am* sadly acquiring a vegan build. I found some body measurements I took in 2000 to be the "before" state because was so out of shape at the time, and my thighs are 1.5" smaller than my "out of shape" measurements in 2000. The mustache ain't gonna happen though.
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And... it’s officially summer again, which we now call the Nervous Season
http://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/14598-wildfire-reported-near-yosemite-national-park-in-mariposa-county-ferguson-fire
Here we go again
Tom
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>officially summer again, which we now call the Nervous Season
Yeah, sorry. I was wondering about you when I recently filtered "wildfire" from my feeds. From the east, it looks like everything west of Missouri is burning.
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>>sorry
Thanks. But, you make your choices and you pay the consequences. We chose to live there (not currently home). We were utterly under-informed about fire, but that's our fault. It has been a bit wearing the last few years though.
>>everything west of Missouri is burning
Last year the acreage burned was 50% above the 40-year average. People are saying this is the new normal.
>> Missouri
They say the line between arid and most America, which John Wesley Powell identified as the 100th meridian, has moved 10 degrees east. But in any case, it used to be just west of Missouri in Nebraska.... now almost all of Missouri is on the wrong side of that line. Expect fires there too
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/a-north-american-climate-boundary-has-shifted-140-miles-east-due-to-global-warming
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Ergophobe, any updates?
I'm hoping you're okay!
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Safe and sound in Minnesota. We were supposed to head back tomorrow, but we’re under mandatory evacuation
Still a good chance we’ll lose the house. Was looking dire yesterday when the fire jumped the highway. So far it hasn’t jumped the line on our side, but looked like it was making an end run.
They are getting ready to set a huge backfire on the border of our neighborhood and burn about a 5-mike line. If they can pull that off in the next couple of days, our chance of burning drops a lot.
So right now I’m back to giving better than even odds.
At least another week before they will lift the evacuation.
Key thing is for now everyone, residents and firefighters, are relatively safe. The danger is mostly to property at this point.
It’s also going to cost us a fair bit in lost business in the relative near term. But that’s why we have a largish checking account
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Oh, wow!
I'm glad you're safe ... but your stress levels must be through the roof!
I send a hug to both you and Theresa.
... as if that helps ...
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I'm glad you are out of there and safe. I do hope you don't lose your home.
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Thanks guys. Actually my stress levels are surprisingly fine. This is so utterly and completely out of my control, that on some level it bothers me less than the little things that I do stress about because I believe, rightly or wrongly, that I can do something about them.
The part that does have me bothered is there is a scattering of friends and community. If the community takes a big hit, a big piece of those friendships will go with them. I mean people who have been in our house for a meal or a beer or ice cream twice a week for the last decade. People who, in the midst of trying to save stuff from their house, went to our house and completely loaded our pickup truck and drove it out for us, as if they didn't have enough to do. Those friendships will not be the same if we are scattered.
It's an interesting exercise in learning what you care about. Easy to say now, though, while I can still be in denial :-)
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I have been back in Spokane, WA for less than a week and there have already been 2 decent sized fires in the area. Both of them close enough to see big smoke plumes. They weren't huge and were contained fairly quickly but the smoke is in the air and it will stay that way for the next 2 months.
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>>smoke is in the air
Life in the Western US. Welcome home!
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So glad to hear you are safe. What a nightmare.
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Things are looking good. Backburn yesterday will give us a lot of comfort once they get that button that up an declare it contained.
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Keep us posted, EG.
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>until today really, it looked highly likely we would lose everything to wildfire(from another thread)
What's going on?
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Major backburns protecting the ridge above and below our house have been completed. Once it "blacks in" we will be pretty safe. I think we've mostly reached that point now.
The attached map is bit old. Imagine that ridgeline burn being completed yesterday and you have the general picture.
Now it's mostly the hassle of another 1-3 weeks of evacuation (probably 2) and a crap ton of smoke. And $10-$15,000 in refunded customers. But in the grand scheme, we're pretty relieved
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The fire danger seems to be an annual event now in the Yosemite region. How much have you considered relocating?
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It has been weighing on my mind a lot in the last few years. I would say it's an annual discussion.
That said, the region is big. So this is the first fire in 28 years to threaten our area (at least the first one to threaten it to the point of requiring an evacuation and deploying firefighters to defend it).
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance