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Wildfire season thread

2WheelBear said:
Hey Gwynne,

Is Yep ok? Massive fire in Lower Lake right now. Really bad.
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Yep is OK. W is up there and has our equipment staged in the event the fire heads our way. We’ve cleared about 3 acres down to dirt and gravel. Hopefully that’s enough combined with the saturation of fire retardant and a water system.
If s**t hits the fan, well, it’s not our first rodeo.
 
Forward progress completely stopped.Starting to release some of the copters and reopen roads that are closed. Dodged another bullet.
 
P.S. For those folks that live in Lake, Napa, and Sonoma County, there is an App called Watch Duty. Absolutely fucking amazing! The best fire info I have ever gotten.
 
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For the first time in over a month the air quality improved (Reno) and we opened up the house and turned off the A/C, air purifiers, and humidifiers. The pets came and went through the open door to the backyard. We went to a food truck event for dinner. In the park there were tons of strollers everywhere, dogs a plenty, and kids playing under the trees on the grass. After dinner I sat in my spa on the deck and listened to music. It may only be for 24 hours until the wind shifts again but we'll take it.
 
Tahoe (and Reno) caught a break, the winds reversed last night and the winds are blowing the fire back on itself.

In the valley, our AQI spiked last night.
 
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I despise this new reality. I also fear of the day insurance drops my Tahoe cabin
 
I have similar concerns. This summer, I've learned to climb and top trees in order to remove large trees that are close to the house. None of the fire abatement measures would stop a crown fire, but they mitigate the risk of one that started on the property getting out of control. Hopefully they also mollify insurance inspectors.
 
In addition to the Eldorado, yesterday the Forest Service closed nine additional national forests in northern California.
https://yubanet.com/regional/usda-f...orests-for-public-safety-joining-eldorado-nf/

This sucks on so many levels. For me it sucks because Saturday is the start of archery deer season and after four years I finally drew the A12 tag. Hopefully I can turn it in and get my points back and try again next year.
 
Luck is still holding with the Caldor fire, the wind is blowing against the fire's advance. As long as it doesn't shift, that will help greatly with containing that fire.
 
ScarySpikes said:
My brother in law works these fires for the forestry department. He does on the ground, minute by minute mapping helping to fight these fires. Basically 16 hour days, 2 weeks on, 2 days home, repeat, now for like 3-4 months every year. Every year is what would have been called a really bad year for fires previously. At least he is mostly in working from tent or whatever and not directly in the line of the fires.

It's bad, and it will probably only get worse. It's basically a losing battle due to the extra heat and longer and more severe drought periods. They are now talking about setting up a permanent team to go into high risk forests and prep them with fire lines in order to minimize how much damage any one fire can do.
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hey, so does my brother but he is directly in the fire. he's got some wild ass videos of water drops, fire retardent drops, tornado fires in trees, helicopter trips through canyons, pretty crazy sstuff. looks exhausting and to be stuck in smoke for weeks on end.... eeeesh
 
I've got to say, so far we are very happy with Farmers Insurance. We had a meeting with our agent and he said there are no plans to drop insurance in fire zones. Coverage we have is excellent and rates are reasonable. After the Camp Fire, our neighbor with State Farm, was dropped after 26 years.

Mad
 
Looks like the winds have switched back to blowing towards Tahoe with the Caldor fire, not good news.
 
Daredevil said:
... looks exhausting and to be stuck in smoke for weeks on end.... eeeesh
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I think about this every time my lungs get a little raspy after too much time out in bad air. If the "bad" days here in the bay area are unhealthy for everyone after 24 hours of exposure, I imagine spending days on end breathing in much worse air at ground zero is probably terrible for these folks. Surprised they don't all have respirators but I suppose the heat might make those really unpleasant to use.
 
Climber said:
Looks like the winds have switched back to blowing towards Tahoe with the Caldor fire, not good news.
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The normal wind cycle for the fire area is to blow from the southwest during the day and reverse at night. And while the wind is moving, it's hardly blowing, and the smoke has settled in the last couple days, making it difficult to even get aircraft up. The fire still has over 20 miles to go to Tahoe.
 
scootergmc said:
The normal wind cycle for the fire area is to blow from the southwest during the day and reverse at night. And while the wind is moving, it's hardly blowing, and the smoke has settled in the last couple days, making it difficult to even get aircraft up. The fire still has over 20 miles to go to Tahoe.
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I can understand the normal flow, yesterday it was blowing from the northeast during the entire day and into the night.
 
Climber said:
You live up there?

I was watching it with Cal Topo Fire maps and the wind indicated was blowing against the front most of the day. That would explain the small gains the fire made yesterday.
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I'm close enough to know.
 

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