Posted on 10/09/2017 11:49:48 AM PDT by Freedom56v2
NAPA (CBS SF) — Wind-whipped wildfires roared to life Sunday night and early Monday across Wine Country, burning building, forcing evacuations and injuring several people.
The Atlas Peak fire was the largest of several wildfires, quickly growing to more than 200 acres near Napa. Meanwhile, the fire near Calistoga had burned several building and sent several people to the hospital to be treated for burns.
Cal Fire said firefighters were battling several blazes in Sonoma County. The largest was in the area of Porter Creek Road and Petrified Forest Road near Calistoga where mandatory evacuations were ordered for residents along Porter Creek, Petrified Forest, Franz Valley and Mountain Home Ranch Rd.
Early Monday morning, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department said fires had erupted at Mark West Springs and Riebli roads in Santa Rosa, at Shiloh and Conde roads in Windsor and at Highway 116 and Fredericks Road in Sebastopol.
The fires had stretched Sonoma and Napa counties firefighting resources to the breaking point. A call for mutual aid was issued to other Bay Area fire departments.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
Three years from planting to first harvestable crop. You have to prune back any fruit that grow within the first 3 years, so that the root systems have a chance to fully develop.
Get off this thread then...you are making not only yourself but everyone else look bad...Fool
Do you think a mature plant’s root system could survive a fire like this?
65,000 acres burning in the North Bay area.
Don’t know about CA, but in Nebraska (yes, we actually produce wine here) the start-up cost for a vineyard is between $10-20,000 per acre, depending on the grape varietal, the trellis system, and type of irrigation you choose.
“Woah 50,000 acres in several areas burning...Yikes eh gonna guess that wine prices are going up.”
What a waste of grapes.
hanks, Freedom. Yes, CA has lots of good conservatives, even here in the Bay Area. I despise, absolutely despise, vile, uncaring, unsympathetic people like RooRoobird20. They should be evicted from FR.
For a while, it looked like NorCal was going to escape major fires, but they sure erupted the last couple of days. I was in Oregon for the eclipse in August and they were getting consumed by fire. Then we visited our daughter in Colorado a couple weeks later and the western fire smoke there was unbelievable. We went to Northern Idaho right after Colorado and the smoke on the panhandle was the worst it’s ever been. Every fire represents untold loss of property and, sometimes, life itself. Every fire anywhere in the US is a cause for heartache, sympathy and condolences no matter who the victims are.
Agreed on all points.
Thing is, no geographic area is 100% homogeneous.
I cannot believe the fools who post here that California should slide into the sea from an earthquake, yet they are posting on a forum that is headquartered in California...
Go figure...
Just some very bitter, small-minded people I guess...I feel pity for them.
Don’t know. Never had the experience. But, if memory serves, most plant life come back fairly quickly after a fire; so I’m guessing the roots will survive. However, many varietals of grape vines are grafted onto different varietal roots. Some of these vine stocks may be generations in the making. Some may never be replaced. Time will tell.
Don’t know. Never had the experience. But, if memory serves, most plant life come back fairly quickly after a fire; so I’m guessing the roots will survive. However, many varietals of grape vines are grafted onto different varietal roots. Some of these vine stocks may be generations in the making. Some may never be replaced. Time will tell.
Sfgate.com has very good and current info
“Woah 50,000 acres in several areas burning...Yikes eh gonna guess that wine prices are going up.”
What a waste of grapes.
I hear ya...
Someone posted the acreage has now gone up to 65,000 acres :(
I love Sonoma wine :( eh maybe should say loved ;(
I have right to express my opinions here on fr just as you do.
Warm fast wind, High housing density- people spend big bucks for a lot they want a lot of house and not much yard.
This area has always burned, since way before people.
The Mexicans who first lived here built houses out adobe (mud) with tile roofs for good reason.
We have species of plants that can’t even propagate without fire.
You know that you sound just like that fired CBS lawyer who posted that she had no sympathy for the dead in Las Vegas, don't you?
I lived in California for 30 years and left because the politics got too extreme, but I would never wish a wildfire on them.
-PJ
Thank you!
For every disaster, there’s always at least one clueless, ignorant jerk.
Wettest winter = lots of tall grass. High winds, very low humidity. Grass fires are common. However, I don’t remember shopping areas burning to this degree, they are surrounded by concrete parking lots.
I hate fires. I bought a full-size fire truck to protect my property.
Oh please, go find a fainting couch and go clutch your fake pearls.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.