Re: California fire

I hope that were ever you are vacationing isn't in the same 'air quality' or
worse yet, hurricane area.
 
I have a friend in Pasadena and she can barely breath outside.  Another friend
in Boulder says you can't even see the mountain tops due to the smoke cloud.
 
One heck of a fire.
 
Stay safe!
 
Donna

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, james singer <inlandjim1@q.com> wrote:


From: james singer <inlandjim1@q.com>
Subject: Re: [CHAT] California fire
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 7:16 PM


Thanks for the report. Yeah, go on your trip; not much you can do anyway.
Squirting a hose on the roof makes a nice photo-op for the local paper but is
really useless at containing a fire. Besides, if the fire really comes it's
better to have the horses away. Nasty business.


On Sep 1, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI wrote:

> No, it's the Station Fire that is very near us, maybe 10 miles away or a
> little less. We are on the north side of that. We are getting a steady
fallout
> of ash from it today. Saturday was like some kind of eerie twilight all
day,
> the smoke was so thick. We had dinner at my sister-in-laws in Santa Clarita
> and could see the smoke plume from there, it looked like an atom bomb had
gone
> off. But the wind shifted a bit so the fire is pushing more east than north
> towards us.  We are still going to go on our trip; the weather is cooling
and
> it would have to jump the freeway and chew through 3 miles of tract houses
to
> hit us. Although if there were very high winds it might get close enough to
> send embers our way - not very likely we think. Hope for the best!
> The firefighters are really stretched thin. There is over 75 miles of fire
> line, it's HUGE. We see the water bombers and the helicopters going over
every
> few minutes. They have a 747 that drops fire retardant too.
> The Yucaipa fire isn't very far from where we take our horses and do our
> volunteer work for the Forest Service. A little bad luck with that one and
> half the wilderness will go up...the fuel there is incredible and it was a
> fairly dry winter. Got my fingers crossed and they are hitting that one with
a
> lot of resources.
> That's life in California I'm afraid.
>
> Cyndi
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net on behalf of james singer
> Sent: Tue 9/1/2009 2:20 PM
> To: Garden Chat
> Subject: [CHAT] California fire
>
>
>
> Cyndi, is that Yucaipa fire the one near you?
>
>
> Inland Jim
> Willamette Valley
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