"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
Record early snowmelt, high winds, highs in the 90's (??!), too early for green-up, dry woods.
I gotta admire the coolness under fire (literally) of the Canucks in those cars.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
That is hell on earth. Video 6 shows lines of cars driving in the darkest pitch black of night you've ever seen, with headlights on. But when they drive out of the smoke, its daytime. Truly insane.
Mighty scary stuff fire is!! Last year we had the large fire here just 25 miles south of me, I ended up close to it evacuating somebodies kennel on my own because they were caught on the other side of the fire and couldn't get through.
For anyone that's interested and remembers fellow 24hr member 'Catnthehat' who lives in Fort McMurry, he & family are alive and well! I got in touch with him last night, says it's looks apocalyptic around there, and he doesn't know if his home is still standing.
That's all I have to report.
Keep the Wind in your Face, Sun at your Back, & Silhouette in Shadows Know guns, know peace, know safety No guns, no peace, no safety
For anyone that's interested and remembers fellow 24hr member 'Catnthehat' who lives in Fort McMurry, he & family are alive and well! I got in touch with him last night, says it's looks apocalyptic around there, and he doesn't know if his home is still standing.
That's all I have to report.
Been wondering about him. Relay my best wishes and tell him to make it known if he needs anything. I suspect many here might like to help.
We went thru this last summer during the Sockeye fire. Didn't know for a few days whether or not we lost our house. We were lucky, it changed our lives for a summer and our landscape for a lot longer. Some of my friends lost everything. All because of one moron with a lighter.
Prayers for these folks. You dont realize how fragile it all is until it is up in flames. I expect there will be a LOT of fires this spring/summer in Alaska and in the North in general due to the mild winter and lack of snow.
If any of my Canadian friends can use a place to stay for a few days, we have two spare bed rooms in our home here in the Denver, Colorado area. PM for my phone number and address.
and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8)
That is hell on earth. Video 6 shows lines of cars driving in the darkest pitch black of night you've ever seen, with headlights on. But when they drive out of the smoke, its daytime. Truly insane.
We've been through this twice now locally. Folks driving through the stuff in the daytime and it can be scary.
What some don't get though, smoke means also a lack of O2 and you could literally starve the engine from O2 and kill it not to ever start it again.
I've been through a lot worse in the fire trucks than what they drove through and so far we've been fine. I just pray that the day doesn't come that some of our fire training videos' have shown... the engine dies.
Its another real issue though that we really should, and even though I know better, we still dont, but we really should keep a couple of go bags... jeans, T shirts underwear stuff, toothbrush, dog food, water, MREs and the like in a couple of duffles along with contact info, phone chargers and so on....
When it comes, it comes damn fast.
I saw a video early on of a woman boo hooing that they wouldn't let her take anything.... hurry and go. Sometimes its like that, you should be thankful that you are still alive really.
I"ve chased a fire at 45mph in a truck trying to catch a flank and the head and lost, lost, lost...s
Prayers for all!
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
I've been through a lot worse in the fire trucks than what they drove through and so far we've been fine. I just pray that the day doesn't come that some of our fire training videos' have shown... the engine dies.
Wonder if a tank of compressed air couldn't be rigged and regulated to supply the intake as a limited reserve when such a situation occurred.
Seems like a whole lot of people didn't heed the evacuation warnings. They could have been out of there much sooner.
The biggest issue with evacing from Ft Mac is that there is only one road in and out. The fire closed the road south early in the crisis so folks headed north to the oil camps to shelter by the thousands. Others did manage to get out to the south as well.
Today there was a convoy organised by the RCMP to head south when the opportunity arose. From the reports I read even this was stopped by fire when the wind changed again, closing the only route south for awhile. Last I read they were on the move again.
Just talked to a friend who lives up there,or did live up there I guess. His whole neighborhood is reportedly gone, so he's not sure what he's doing next. Lots of people from that area trickling down through here now, looking for places to stay I guess. Going to be hard to get it under control if we don't get some rain, so I guess we will see what happens. Luckily so far I've only heard of one death, the rest can be rebuilt.
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