Posted on 01/01/2006 4:38:15 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe
I remember the dust storms in the 50's in Western Kansas...street lights would come on about 2 in the afternoon.
Everything tasted dusty.
Not threatening Norman. Several miles north of Norman.
However, I have long ago learned that the media names a town with which they are familiar and runs with it.....
Facts are not often part of the story.
They are the best.
Time of photo would have been 2 p.m. MST, 3 p.m. CST. Fire in SE NM is the one that made it to Hobbs.
I've been itching to get ahold of a backhoe to knock down the dry grass in the pasture for some time. Looks like its time to stop farting around and do it!
The fires currently burning are far to the east (with a strong west wind), and the one earlier was near 122nd and Penn, probably at least 2 miles north.
Her last post was late this morning. She was aware of the fire dangers around the state.
Appreciate the update!
I'm in northwest Tulsa, and we can smell and see smoke and dust in the air. I think Tulsa may be having some fires inside the city now too. There's also a huge amount of dust in the air.
Say a prayer for us, folks, this is a tinderbox here, and the winds are still high even this late in the evening.
Does anyone do backfires anymore?? Set fires that you can control. Deny the larger fire fuel and it will go out.
Always laughed in the western movies when they would show the wagon train racing like mad to outrun the fire. That was B.S. They just threw a match downwind, waited for an area to burn clear and then parked in it.
I don't know, I was travelling, ironically west along I-40 through Oklahoma the day the fires broke out. My wife thought they were controlled burns along the interstate. I told her that controlled burns don't create their own cloud banks from horizon to horizon.
Certainly can't be done within a city. Maybe in a forest fire.
Thanks, have had 20 "structures" burn in my town of Hobbs and 150-170 nursing home residents bedded down in the high school.
According to OKC TV reports, you may be smelling smoke from a fire near Welty. The radar is showing the smoke plume moving over Tulsa from that fire. Welty is in Okfuskee County, SW of Tulsa.
This is bad, West Austin hill country is tinder-dry and paved with Juniper Ashe cedars that ignite like Bacardi 151.
Yeah, those puppies go up in a hot flash and the roots burn quick too.
As much as I despise CNN, I have to admit they do a much better job than Fox when it comes to breaking news, unless Scott Peterson farts in his cell on death row, in which case Greta will be on to tell us what it smelled like.
And not in high wind situations. Remember Los Alamos?
Thanks for the info, T-Bird. That could be right. Although Okfuskee seems a long way away, I know that plume really spreads from a large wildfire.
Somebody else was saying they were traveling on I-40 and saw a horizon-to-horizon smoke plume the other day. I was traveling up highway 75 near I-40 2 days after Christmas and saw the same thing (I suppose). It was unbelievable. The sun was just a red ball behind this massive gray cloud, and it went almost to the eastern horizon.
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