Oregon Firefighters get no help from the weather

Oregon Live/ AP ^ | 13 August 2002 | Jeff Barnard

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, maybe we should refer to them in the future as:

Watermelon B*stards

[madfly]

bttt

[Grampa Dave]

Headsonpikes labeling is really perfect.

It is time to stope beating around the bushes.

It is appropriate and timely call these scumbags:

Watermelon B*stards!

[headsonpikes]

(blush)

You gave me the durned idea, Gramps!

They are definitely Green on the outside, Red in the middle, and of unknown parentage. Fair's fair. ;^)

[Grampa Dave]

The latest from the Oregonian:

Hotter weather will feed wildfires/ 08/13/02

R. GREGORY NOKES and WENDY OWEN

Some of the summer's hottest temperatures in Oregon, combined with low humidity and a prediction of gusty east winds, increased the potential for a worsening of the state's already bad fire season.

"The next 24 hours will be pretty critical," David Widmark, a spokesman in the Northwest Interagency Coordinating Center in Portland, said late Monday. "Conditions are ripe for burning."

Temperatures reached 105 degrees in Agness on Monday, forcing fire crews to suspend plans to ignite a burnout to deprive the Biscuit fire of fuel.

Widmark said firefighters focused their greatest effort on the west and north sides of the 376,492-acre fire in Southwest Oregon, formerly known as the Florence fire. The fire burned slowly on the north toward Agness and on the west toward homes in the Wilderness Retreat community along the Chetco River, east of Brookings.

"It's definitely doing some creeping" toward those communities, Widmark said. However, it still hadn't reached a "trigger point" where officials would warn residents of Agness to evacuate their homes. Wilderness Retreat remained under a voluntary evacuation.

The Curry County sheriff's office issued a pre-evacuation notice for about five homes along the Pistol River. Flames had jumped a fire line and moved within several miles of the homes, about eight miles east of the coastal town of Pistol River between Gold Beach and Brookings.

Crews were back on the line Monday after being pulled out of the area Sunday evening as the flames came over Snow Camp ridge.

"When the fire starts getting squirrelly, we pull them out and let the fire die down," said Peter D'Aquanni, fire information officer.

Although not as active as last week, the fire near Wilderness Retreat, 13 miles east of Brookings, continued a slow march toward about 20 dwellings. Flames were spotted across the containment line during the weekend, and again Monday.

Firefighters and bulldozers fell back and worked to tie two roads together to create another fire line.

"We've been trying to catch it with a hand line but the hand line did not hold," said Mark Van Every, fire information officer. "Obviously, we're concerned about this spotting, but it's not a serious threat to Wilderness Retreat at this moment."

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Then next 24 to 48 hours are very critical with the over 100 degree heat, low humidity and the easterly winds.

Remember the west side of the fire due to the coastal mountains does not really heat up until the afternoon sun hits the western slope. That will get critical shortly after noon until about 5 pm.

The fact that it got to 105 in Agness yesterday, shows that the north end of the fire still has the potential to creep forward.

[EBUCK]

Watermelon Ba$tards! BUMP

EBUCK

[Grampa Dave]

I like it!

[Grampa Dave]

Infact this would be a great bumpersticker!

Someone with computer skills could create this to print out on our computers. Then with some wide scotch tape, we can make it into a bumper sticker to go with your other sticker.

[AAABEST]

[Grampa Dave]

This is the only bad thing about calling these Green Jihadists, Watermelons.

I love watermelon! In fact, I just added watermelon to my grocery list for this evening's dinner after seeing your picture of a watermelon.

[EBUCK]

I got an E-Mail from my free image hosting site. I'm using way way way to much bandwidth. Do you know if there is any way to delete my images from older threads?

EBUCK

[Grampa Dave]

This is from Joe Broward:

[Grampa Dave]

You might want to check with Joe Brower or nimc.

I'm an absolute neophyte when it comes to this stuff.

[EBUCK]

Joe, is there any way to delete my images from old threads? I've exceded (by a country mile) my bandwidth alotment and I'm going to lose my site if I don't do something to cut it back. Thanks,

EBUCK

[headsonpikes]

"I love watermelon!"

Don't go all liberal on us now, Gramps! LOL!

[AAABEST]

I'm an absolute neophyte ...

At least you're big enough to admit it. I'll have you know that you neophytes are are causing problems for us real phytes.

[Joe Brower]

This is from Joe Broward:

Who?

[Joe Brower]

Joe, is there any way to delete my images from old threads?

Hmmmm... Not that I know of. The Admin Mod probably could, but it would be a bit of work for them, I imagine.

You need to get a real ISP, good fellow!

[Grampa Dave]

Hey, I'm an old man who is short on coffee. Heck, I can't even spell Cranpa Cave.

[Grampa Dave]

That's one of the good things that comes with age. The ability to admit something that you are or that you ain't.

Your are right. I should never use the prefix, Neo, with any word/phrase with all of the worthless Bravo Sierra discussions on conservatives, real conservatives, neoconservatives, semi conservatives, pseudo conservatives, pseudo neoconservatives and semineoconservatives.