Posted on 11/29/2016 3:23:29 AM PST by C19fan
Terrified guests are trapped inside a burning Hilton hotel as a huge wildfire engulfs the Tennessee resort towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. Dollywood theme park has been evacuated as thousands of tourists and residents fled the Great Smoky Mountains amidst reports of cars bursting into flames, dozens of homes being engulfed by fire, and the sky turning brown with smoke and flames.
Motorists clogged the roads after the Gatlinburg Fire Department ordered the mandatory evacuation of the town at just after 6pm on Monday, as strong wind conditions fanned the flames making the fire increasingly unpredictable and dangerous.
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That is where the family and I stayed the two times we have been down there. I saw a news article the whole resort was destroyed.
When Bill Clinton was first elected he gutted the budgets for the park service and all fed land mgmt agencies. They also appointed tree hugging global warmers and stopped all policies to control wildfires throughout the U.S. The budgets and policy changes have never been restored to $$ levels and policies that work. We are now reaping the whirlwind of these actions.
On another note, my brother informs me these particular fires were started by bear poachers caught in the Smokies, out on bond, taking their sorry actions out on the other fair chase hunters by burning their hunting grounds.
He also told me there are fires in 65 Tn counties on fire, copy cats or ISIS teddy fires to gage disruption and affect on gov resources. Using this as the model for Israel wildfires. Our president elect cannot be sworn in soon enough for me. T-55 and counting.
I have very fond childhood memories of Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge. As kids we used to travel there with my parents an Grandparents. It was beautiful, clean, and wholesome. We wouls also take the drive from there to Ashville to see the Vanderbuilt Estate.
I grew up and went back with my husband and kids. I was so disappointed. It has turned into a smelly grease pit of dirty creeks, tatoo parlors, cheezy mini golf courses.
I was saddened by it and haven’t been back since. I do have some wonderful signed prints, and pottery from there.
Praying for the people trapped in the fire area there..
“Tom Anderson, editor of Farm and Ranch magazine”
Good memory, Rufii.
Fox News just did a segment about it.
43,000 == stale number.
much closer to 99,600
Yes it’s a tourist trap. A very beautiful tourist trap. And the people living there depend on those tourist dollars to survive. Prayers for all affected.
***Tom Anderson, editor of Farm and Ranch magazine ***
As a teen in the early 1960s, we read his ARKANSAS FARMER magazine. he was a person who, in his editorials, called Martin Luther King, Martin Luther Coon.
The farm part of his magazine was good. His commentary on political things was a hoot.
He reminded me of a local character, now dead, who used to write long diatribes against local politics and post them in his store window on mail street so everyone in town could read them. No one took him seriously.
My two sons have amassed quite a collection of bladed instruments and have both graduated beyond the cheap knives. They plot and plan what knife they will buy next. Their Christmas lists are both heavily knife centric.
I guess it’s easy for us.
Rain is headed that way. May help
Wild fires are dangerous
...ping....
The winds have contributed to drying an already dry landscape Makes these fires extra tough to control
Unless some filthy islamist was driving around with books of matches.
A few are from lightning strikes. Most are arson. The blue ridge and entire swaths of the appalchians are burning
Trees in power line???
Islamic Terrorists,
Who knows? Allah could be smiling?
“At least 20 wildfires in North Carolina are being investigated as suspected arson, officials said, as firefighters from across the country focused a pocket of fires in the bone-dry southern Appalachian mountains. “
http://abc11.com/news/nc-wildfires-continue-to-rage-arson-suspected/1600036/
Hubby is a retired watershed expert. He has said....if the fire is hot enough the rain evaporates before it ever gets low enough to help. It can help in the spread of the fire.
He’s been on hot burning fires when it was raining and they never knew it was raining til they got to the edges of the fire.
I'm betting you're correct. I lived in TN for 13 years. Got two college diplomas there. If Tennesseans realize their liberal immigration policy is killing them, they will make a difference.
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