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Good to get that clarification! I think Dave and I might be a little more nervous if it had been the one near us.
You bet!
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Originally Posted by Sagle Sam
Hope they get that fire out quick!
That one and all the others.
The entire west coast is just tinder dry. It won't help for this fire season, but I have my fingers crossed that the weather pattern has shifted and we may get an El Nino event next winter. Not sure what that does for Idaho, but that means a wet winter down here. They are forecasting a significant probability of an El Nino next winter, and they say we're deep enough into the summer that the chances are now pretty good that the temp pattern in the Pacific will hold until next winter. I hope it does hold.
Last night it rained at our house down here for about an hour or so. Not a significant amount of rain, but very unusual for this time of year.
Kind of ironic for us. Our house in SoCal is on a canyon near a wilderness area, and we're always worried about fires, having been evacuated once, and on evac alert another year. And now we're building a cabin in another fire-prone area! But all you can do is clear that defensible space and (in our case) pay for fire protection outside of city limits. And keep your fingers crossed.
Last year we saw a fire developing in the Green Monarchs, but the fire department got it stopped in time before it started traveling down toward Clark Fork. I just hope all the fire departments can stay on top of the situation if it escalates. The Cedar Fire of 2003 in San Diego still has me traumatized--the fire got to within 300 yards of our house, and was stopped by the firefighters who made a stand up the street. And that one could have been stopped...it started the evening before, up in the mountains, and was reported, but nothing was done because of local politics, and because it went unchecked all night, it had spread to the foothills in the morning, and we were in its path...
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But all you can do is clear that defensible space and (in our case) pay for fire protection outside of city limits. And keep your fingers crossed.
