Posted on 10/01/2020 12:08:34 AM PDT by weston
We’ll see, that’s the difference, you were warned! LOL
We thought about Idaho, and when I drove through Coeur d’Alene it was drop dead gorgeous. It was the graph of the annual weather stoped our considering it. Long long winter!.
I didn’t know you were in Florida! I wouldn’t move there as long as I have a Yorkie. The alligators eating pets, I don’t even want to risk it. But why wouldn’t the alligators eat children as well?
A minor if it’s just that the songs are Civil War era that they have to go. We have to deny that whole part of our history.
I was just talking to Hubby today about Nevada. Back when I was investigating the states, Nevada was the best as far as taxes. No state income tax, 1% property tax, no personal property tax. I don’t know if it’s still that way, back then the gambling was paying quite a bit.
The alligators should eat Democrats!
I don’t think they’ve Instituted an income tax.
move to Vancouver Washington. No income tax. Cross over to Portland for purchases. No sales tax.
I totally missed this yesterday.
Adam Shitt for Brains has a new whistleblower!
Nunes is just great in this hearing.
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1312083212869435398
Oh goody, I need your expertise. Here’s what I would love, to find something like the Sierra mountains but not in California. Possibly in Nevada but I think it’s too expensive there. But it’s amazing how many little tiny communities California has in the mountains that are quite affordable. But we wouldn’t go back there.
What I love is being able to walk outside my back door and go hiking in numerous directions. I like not having to have a path - the Seqioua National Forest had very little Shrubbery and undergrowth. Trying to walk here, even in my own forest, a path has to be cleared and then kept cleared because everything would grow back in just one year. So you’re pretty much just stuck to One path, and so if you go to a national or State Forest Area, everybody is on the same few pads. I could hike for miles and miles at our cabin and never meet anybody. Which has lots of pros but one con is cell phones don’t work there either, So eventually I got this little Gadget we’re if I got into trouble I could press a button and my coordinates would be emailed to somebody. Can’t remember the name of it. You probably know.
I’m guessing to get that low shrubbery area, you need heavy snow pack so that you don’t need rains for the forest.
Is the Arizona mountains like that? How about the New Mexico mountains?
Portland? You’re sending me to Portland now? Did I say something wrong?
;)
Yesterday, I had to transport my employer off the mountain so that he could be reunited with his pickup truck that was undergoing servicing down in Fresno. This meant that we had to egress through the fire zone once again and eat lots of smoke.
The fire crews have been cutting down trees along the road and have been setting backfires on the down slope side of the mountain to prevent the fires from migrating UNPREDICTABLY (they are going to migrate one way or another) and in an effort to save businesses and other historical structures, are attempting to drive the fires in directions favorable to their efforts.
I had the opportunity to hang out down in Fresno, for a day off work (today) but in a text I just received, I have been informed that the firefighters are going to set up a spike camp in the campground next to the resort where I work, so my time off is abruptly curtailed. 150 firefighters are inbound and it looks like they are going to make a stand and save the resort, the pack station, and the dam's operational infrastructure.
It should be an interesting week as we had planned on closing the resort by the end of the week, but now, who knows when the wrap up will take place?
The roadblock preventing entry by nonessential personnel was moved to the NE side of Huntington Lake, which now permits local residents to travel into the fire zone and learn what the fate of their property is and whether they have a home or business to come home to, now that it's safe to return. With the thick smoke and loss of power and water, the area is still rather hostile, so repopulating will take a long time to reach any kind of normalcy.
The base camps for the firefighters were set up at the Sierra HS in Aueberry, and the ski resort at China Peak. Driving through the grounds was impressive as the logistics equated into setting up a town of about 1,000 people, in just days, with all essentials present, enabling the firefighters to be able to live and work safely and in close proximity to each other, all the while with the COVID component looming large and constant.
Meanwhile, massive and very dangerous fires burn out of control in many other areas of CA. At some point, the powers that be, will be forced to manage the forests, whether they like it or not, irrespective of the climate change canard blinding them (up to this point) from taking real meaningful action.
Creek Fire CalTopo Backcountry Mapping
https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=37.34703,-119.05798&z=13&b=mbt&a=c%2Cmodis_mp
I only found three properties in that area that had 10 acres or more. So I started looking around central Wisconsin and had more luck. Sounds like the weather might be better there as well.
“Oops! Forgot to ping you.”
You forgot to pin yourself?
Are you doing okay these days?
Good, sounds like you know all about Idaho / Wyoming/Montana.
I drove through parts of them and my impression was that there are miles and miles and miles there’s no civilization, no homes. And then when you get near a city there’s tons of people, fairly population dense, and expensive acreage.
The problem we have here is the whole area’s population dense. You can’t drive anywhere anywhere without finding the house or mobile or something, people are everywhere. Even when it’s 2 hours to the next city.
I would like some kind of balance between those. And inexpensive acreage. Any ideas?
yes, I found some nice small towns in Central Wisconsin.
Was going to say, why two different rooms? But then I realized one was probably a more ‘formal’ room for videos/photos and the other is more ‘working’ with the phones and room to spread out paperwork.
Disneyworld - 2016:
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/us/alligator-attacks-child-disney-florida/index.html
Disneyworld - 2016:
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/us/alligator-attacks-child-disney-florida/index.html
AZ and NM share similar mountain profiles because the latitudes are the same. The largest stand of Ponderosa pines in the world is the belt that grows across the Mogollon Rim, which is located in central-eastern AZ, and central-western NM.
The forest floors are quite open due to the arid climate. Winters are not, generally- all that cold, and the snow pack is limited due to the minimal precipitation that falls in the desert southwest. Very astute summary on your part regarding the forest floor.
There is the prime real estate in the mountains, and the less desirable scrub covered real estate at slightly lower elevations, just a stone’s throw from the more desirable territory, priced accordingly.
Depending on where you might choose to live, Phoenix, would be 3-5 hours in distance by automobile, and Albuquerque, 3, 5, or 7 hours away from one’s residence.
Catron County, in NM, adjoining AZ, is similar in it’s rural aspects, like the counties in AZ, such as Greenlee, Navajo, and Apache. It’s the largest county in NM, and the least populated with about 4,000 residents. NM is the 5th largest state in the union, and AZ is the 6th largest state, land wise.
AZ is a Constitutional carry state, which means the right to keep and bear arms is not infringed in any way and one may open carry or carry concealed, AND one does not have to get ANYONE’S permission to do so.
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