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Nepomuceño Nepomuceño
Looks terrible too. You guys north have it rough too because it's smoke from california fires and the fires in oregon are blowing down here. Can't believe they are evacuating Medford.

Smoke is bad, but mostly high elevation, so air quality is better than it looks. See: https://www.airnow.gov/

I feel safe from the fires here, so I am grateful for that. We knew people in the Chico / Paradise area, and that was absolutely terrifying.
 
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Crazy sky in the Willamette Valley last night. This just after 4pm... sunset around 730pm. It was dark red.
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The Father
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Stay in Sonoma County every November.

I don't see how any of these poor bastards and their small businesses are still open.

Fires last two years causing closures and evacuations.
Floods in certain areas causing closures and evacuations.
Then the plague causing months long closures.

Only thing I can do every year is try to spend a lot of money while we are there.
 
Scarecrow Boat
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The Father The Father
I don't see how any of these poor bastards and their small businesses are still open.
I think you answered your own statement
The Father The Father
Only thing I can do every year is try to spend a lot of money while we are there.
Sounds like you might keep them afloat ::rimshot::
 
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Controlled burns only sound like a perfect solution when they weren't done. In practice:
- during severe drought they have to be suspended due to being uncontrollable;
- they need to be done more regularly than anybody wants.

I live in NSW, Australia, sandwiched between two of last summer's largest fires. 2.5 years ago a controlled burn of 10 hectares burned over 50 hectares before being controlled, so the program suspended. Conditions didn't improve until early this year, after the bushfires. Also, in an area that was managed more extensively, sectors that had a controlled burn 2.5 years before hand still burned as fast & hot as areas without a controlled burn. Areas that had a controlled burn 1.5 years before still burned, slower, but in no way acted as a fire break.
 
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Dude my heart goes out to all of you. God bless those firefighters fighting those flames in triple digit heat. It’s hard for us on the other coast to imagine what you are going through. I had this volunteer gig with the Red Cross when I was young my job was to show up at fires and provide coffee, water and other drinks to the firemen. After a while they got to know me and they would let me get closer to blazes than I probably should have. I felt that heat and looked at them in all that heavy gear, even watched a fireman risk his life to save a cat. (He played it down said he was safe the entire time but it didn’t look that safe to me) anyway sending out positives vibes from the other coast to all of you
 
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Ooof, that's rough here in Santa Barbara County, we had our in 2017 during the Thomas Fire. My heart goes out to you. I know what its like.
 
arturo7
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I'm down in SoCal. I left the windows in my car open for about an hour this afternoon. The inside was coated with ash when I came back.
 
Professor
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JwRosenthal JwRosenthal
Go grab some hepa filters for the house before they are gone.
Go grab a plane ticket to practically anywhere other than the west coast.
 
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I'm down in SoCal. I left the windows in my car open for about an hour this afternoon. The inside was coated with ash when I came back.
Yeah, you all are breathing that!
 
pdxleaf
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Out my window in Portland just now. Power was out several days. My wife's coworkers have people staying in their home who were burned out, including 5 dogs.
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My brother's house in Seattle yesterday
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It's up and down the coast. It's not due to brush control. High winds are whipping it up. More drought, higher heat.

A reminder to all our friends in OF land, have an escape plan. Have a bug out bag. Have anything you want to grab (eg watch collection and legal papers) within reach.
 
Professor
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NGO1 ngo516
What? natural disaster?? That's shitty leadership indeed.
fυck this stupid sun and warm weather. I curse you Newsom!!

I invite you to come rake our forests.
You and common sense. shaking my ashy head!
https://kenco.com/products/brush-rake/
California used to rake excess dry brush and burn it in power plants to produce electricity. In those days fires seldom got so badly out of control.
The meme of Finland not raking their forest is based on a mis-translation. They rake the begeezus out of their forests in dry years.

If California won't clean up its own mess why should anyone do the job for them. Its obvious they haven't learned a very simple lesson yet, one the Native Americans knew so well. Fire requires fuel, remove the fuel and wildfires are no longer a problem.

BTW
The Santa Anna winds are not caused by warmer than normal weather, they are caused by super cooled arid airmasses dropping from the upper atmosphere and becoming heated by compression as they approach sea level. They are further heated by friction as the winds cut through the valleys. If these air masses were not already bone dry they could not further dry out the surface vegetation.
Air masses like this are able to strip the ice from glaciers while still being far below zero. They sublimate water ice into water vapor without first melting the ice.
 
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wagudc wagudc
My god it is bad here in far Northern Coastal California. It is almost 10am and still dark! To be honest I am feeling a little freaked out.
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posting a WRUW shot when the sky's on fire is the most watch forum thing I've seen in a while
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The fires causing the strange skies in northern CA are in Oregon apparently...

Yes, I heard the most we've ever had going at one time... some family members have already had to evacuate their home and other members are in the "get ready" stage, waiting for the call to evacuate. We've had some high winds which haven't helped but those have died down for the most part, thankfully. I hope the fire crews can get a handle on these.
 
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