Posted on 09/05/2017 10:11:15 AM PDT by goodnesswins
The Western US is facing cataclysmic forest fires, at least one started by idiot boys throwing fireworks in Eagle Creek area, near Multnomah Lodge, in the COLUMBIA GORGE - a greenie paradise. I-84 is closed near Multnomah Files to Exit 62, just west of Hood River.
MONTANA www.ktvq.com
NW Fires www.arcgis.com
OREGON List of fires www.inciweb.nwcg.gov>
IDAHO List of fires www.inciweb.nwcg.gov>
CALIFORNIA List of fires www.inciweb.nwcg.gov>
WASHINGTON List of fires www.inciweb.nwcg.gov>
I’m off to a class for a couple hours...please add any additional info.
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I would, but I’m about to get in the shower.
We nearly lost my mom’s vacation home in Mariposa. The fire in July raged right up the clearing around the house, and on past.
It’s raining ash in Western Washington today.
The sun is dark red, and you can look right at it, it is so obscured by smoke.
It's already 84, but without the sun, I question whether it will get to the projected 92-95 high for the day.
Colorado is smoke filled form these fires. Can’t see the foothill from 3 miles out.
My cousin is retired and took a little open ended trip to visit. They kept calling him to work on the fire and after 2 days of constant phone calls he went back to help.
His wife also works the fires taking drinks, food and anything else they need.
All the attention is on Texas and Florida.
Perhaps reinvent the CCC Camp. My dad and his brother joined and spent a memorable year in Montana.
Real smoky here in Mason County, south Puget Sound - a little ash fall but the hazy sunlight is giving a real freaky look to everything, like the last night of the world. We need some rain.
Great resource: zoom and move; click on layers
https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/
You have got that right. The problem is that in the thirty or so years since forests were actually managed here in Washington State the top management has all been replaced with people whose environmentalism indoctrination in school was all anti-forest management.
Active fire maps:
https://fsapps.nwcg.gov/afm/index.php
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
https://www.geomac.gov/viewer/viewer.shtml
https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=df8bcc10430f48878b01c96e907a1fc3#!
https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=topics.smoke_wildfires
Thanks. I was thinking such a thread was needed.
We are visiting our daughter in Denver. I’ve never seen such smoke around Denver as I did when we landed on Saturday. You couldn’t even see the foothills to the west. On Sunday, we went to Rocky Mountain National Park and the air was pretty good on our hike to Cub Lake at 8,700 feet. Yesterday, we went to Colorado Springs for the balloon festival and the air was hazy, but not real bad there. We Later hiked at Rampart Reservoir (9,200 feet) and again the high mountain air was clear. But, when we got back to Denver about 5:00 PM, it was real BAD again. I can see the foothills and mountains west of Westminster, CO right now through mild haze.
We are headed up to Coeur d’Alene tomorrow and it currently is among the worst areas with winds flowing west from Montana.
Our son has a ticket to climb Half Dome with friends on Sunday and it sounds bad there with three fires burning just west of Yosemite.
This is one of the worst fire seasons ever. It sounds like the authorities are going to let a lot of the blazes burn themselves out with the coming cooler temps and rains, so clear air may be a couple months away yet.
I can attest to what Uncle Miltie said. A fine layer of ash was on our cars this morning.
The air quality meter only goes to 300. 300 being the worst air to breathe. Eugene OR is at 411 today. We came over to the coast to escape, but it’s smokey here too.
The combo of years of neglect managing forests (thanks to Greenies), hot weather and cutbacks in fire resources has made the situation very dangerous.
We had record rainfall and snowpack this year so it’s not a drought situation although some rain in the forecast would be a blessing.
The US Forest Service was established by Congress after the catastrophic fires of 1910 destroyed thousands of acres, homes, and even entire towns in the Pacific NW. Their charter was to manage the forest resource to prevent this from ever happening again. It’s happening again. This is the result when eco-Nazis take over the agency and they manage for preservation instead of utilization.
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