OT Our fire/update

It's good to know you're still holding firm there, and that the good fight is still being put up by the guys whose job it is to do that. They really are amazing!

Thanks for additional reference so we can keep an eye out for you, too.

This is the part where we realized, "Sleep? What sleep? When?" (We had to bug out SO fast, though, that we didn't get to pack anything but the animals and medicines. We spent 5 days going, "Oh!!! The baby pictures!!" and so on. I like your situation WAY better!) :-D

Dawn

Here is a map of the burn area and the town. On the right side you see an arrow pointing to a circle. That is my place.
The fire is circled with red pen.
More than 18,000 acre has burned in 2 1/2 days.
The fire started in wooded area an incroached on the lake and the town.
Mabey this helps to let you see why this fire got so out of hand. Ring a town with forest and you've got fire danger!!!

The folks in CA have these problems, the folks in the NW seem to have them, even South GA had a bad one that choked us out 300 miles away this year.

I don't quite understand it, I can understand the one in the South GA swamps. But I can't see how it can threaten folks homes so bad, that own a chainsaw, and an N tractor, and have a house and a little acreage.

I keep probably 200 yards or more on each of the 3 sides of my house to the woods cut back and cut down, the 4th front side of my house is a paved road, and a field. Before the laws got so strict, I used to keep the riff raff burned out of all of the woods around here, with a controled burn.

Are most place unlike mine, and the woods come right up to the house. Around here that seems to be only in the high dollar places. And they are not that big in area, lots of feilds andpasture around here.

I really like pics.

I don't drive that far, and you couldn't ever git me drunk enough to get on an airplane.

That is not normal around here most places around here. (I don't think)

I'm just curious, I am sure it didn't burn across that lake on the map. But then I have never in my life seen trees in person big enough to drive thru the trunk with a tractor, ifn they were chopped out on the bottom, but I do know they exist.

Hope this helps,
Dawn

Hang in there, Gary!!

(Those are hugs)

Hang in there. And don't look away 'til it's all over, ok? Promise me.

Dawn

It's an amazing, terrifying, and strangely beautiful sight isn't it? Unimaginable! Especially at night. And the helicopters and slurry planes and all the traffic just add to the sense of unreality. But it DOES get better. Here is where *I* promise *you*.

Dawn

Colin