Okay, We are Toast

[digitS']

Cool day and a little breezy after an absolutely terrible day, yesterday.

The wind began to build in late morning. The afternoon thermometer hit 90°f with 40mph+ wind gusts. Visibility at the international airport was down to 1.5 miles because of blowing dust and smoke. Today, the news is all about the fires. In the nearby Idaho County where my family homesteaded in the 1800's, thirty homes burned.

I was outdoors a good deal yesterday. Plugged up, red eyed and sneezing ...

Steve
kof

 

[Smart Red]

Praying the ordeal of fire will be over soon in the West. Watching and listening to the reports are so sad. My heart goes out to all those affected by these fires.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

It was 100 plus all summer and then cooled off in early Aug. Now this week we're back to 100's. 104 and 106 tomorrow in the Calif foothills.
We had a fire two days ago next to our golf course dev. A young man set it and it went to 160 acres within hours. The back side of this neighborhood was on alert cus of it. About an hour after it started, they finally found a DC10 to drop retardant and got it under control.

 

[thistlebloom]

Hot dry weather always seems to bring the pyros out. Glad you weren't having Santa Ana winds at the same time.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Yeah, luck would have it that those are only in So. Calif. If we get any breeze, its coming from the San Joaquin Valley.

 

[Lavender2]

, omg, @murphysranch ! Thankfully they got it under control pretty quick!

We were under voluntary evacuation, close to mandatory, a few years ago. It's a horrible feeling watching the plumes of smoke getting bigger! Also praying for all still dealing with the fires.

 

[Beekissed]

I've only had AC in a home two times in my life and one of those was a temporary dwelling for a 3 mo. travel nurse contract. There's been many, many a time when AC would have been like pure heaven here in the muggy, hot Mid-Ohio Valley...but I've lived without one so much of my life that I hesitate to become dependent upon such a thing.

I'm outdoors more than I am in and going back and forth between those two extremes is a hard thing to do. So much so that one would be more and more reluctant to go out....pretty soon I'd be sitting in that AC and becoming more and more sedentary. Then, when the power went out during the hottest part of the summer, I'd be suffering so much more than normal for the lack of my AC.

Nah. I love how they feel but don't love having to depend on one nor do I feel like paying the extra money they add to the utility bill.

 

[digitS']

If fires, dust, and fire danger increases with wind ..

. the air quality doesn't improve with absence of wind.

We are now well within the "unhealthy for sensitive people" category.

Steve

 

[so lucky]

You guys out in the west are on my mind and in my prayers. I just can't imagine how horrible this is for the people in the fire's path. And, as Steve points out, the smoke and heat affect everyone.
You can come to my house; no fire, no smoke, just humidity. And mosquitos.

 

[Beekissed]

I've often wondered about those wild fires....if one does not have any other family or friends than you'd have locally, where do those folks evacuate to, exactly? I see them taking many things from their homes, packing cars and trailers to leave and I've often wondered where do they go? That would be a sad and desperate time if you had no one to whom you could go or with whom to find shelter even temporarily, let alone if your home was burned.