Sounds ominous. Mandatory evacuations!! That's a HUGE fire. Weed is notorious in our family for the number of speeding tickets we've got there...a real police speed trap. Good luck Kellen....we'll be saying our prayers for you.
Dont worry I really dont think the fire can get to me. The last map I saw on the news showed the fire moving mainly in a north easterly direction into the El Dorado national forest. For it to get to me it would have to go south west, burn down Placerville (which I think you said you have been to) first before it could get to me. You lived in Cali for a long time so you'll understand how hard it is for a fire to change direction like that since it has already burned most of the available fuel. The air is pretty bad, I have already given up on my brush clearing project for the day because of the smoke. My girl is staying at her parents house near Folsom as she gets bad allergies and the smoke is making it hard for her to breath. On the positive side I will get to watch all the sports that I want for the next few days. I was just updating the thread since it seemed like a distraction from the name change arguments.
They just arrested a dude for starting the fire near me. My guess is that he was cooking meth or something happened at an illegal marijuana grow as it is marijuana harvesting season. El Dorado County authorities took Wayne Allen Huntsman into custody Wednesday on suspicion of felony arson and jailed him in lieu of $10 million bail. Huntsman is a resident of Pollock Pines (El Dorado County), a community in the heart of the fire area. How and why Huntsman allegedly started the destructive blaze near Pollock Pines were not specified in charging papers Thursday, and El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson declined to comment on details of the case. The fire comes amid 10 other major blazes in the state. With California's landscape parched after three years of drought, officials are worried about a fiery fall and have stepped up campaigns for fire safety. About 86 percent of the roughly 6,000 wildfires in California this year were human-caused - though few are attributed to arsonists. Huntsman, who remained in jail in Placerville on Thursday, has a handful of prior criminal convictions, including assault with a deadly weapon and grand theft dating to the 1990s. Public records show prior residences in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties
If true - fine bunch of neighbours you have there. Probably an ex fireman (fired/sacked) with a grudge....or an ex-postman who lost his round. Of course, I'm only joking, but this sort of thing presents images of the legendary "Wild West" and the lawlessness of the gold rush. Must be difficult sleeping at night with Charlie Manson clones wandering through the valleys ?
Firefighter would be a good guess as most forest fires started by arson are actually started by firefighters. In this case though if he had been a firefighter they would have mentioned it in the article I think. There is quite a bit of that wild west attitude in lots of rural places in the west. There are crazy people everywhere of course. Still just last week one of my neighbors (not like next door neighbors but he lived a few streets over) did just get arrested for double murder. He had 2 guys working his illegal grow and rather than pay them after they were done processing it he just killed them with a shotgun instead.
Am surprised they havent linked u in the area to all these fires yet.....can u stop playing with fking matches...yer 37 ffs!
37!? I turn 33 on the 24th of this month. You actually had me shocked that I was that old until I realized that I was in fact not 37 haha. There are so many fires here every year that if they tried to do some fancy cop show triangulation everyone in the state would be suspects.
I realize it's no joking matter ellewoods, but sometimes levity helps. Well before your & Hesfords heros time.....hope things abate soon... [video=youtube;9iSXrZYhJt4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iSXrZYhJt4[/video]
Can it be a risk to you? I thought everything around you was burned out with the last one? *edit* Just read it back it and sounds argumentative, it's not meant to, I'm just curious.
As far as it has moved from the location it started it easily could have made it to me. In reality though our winds blow from west to east so the fire was always going to want to head towards Lake Tahoe. Which is why I was never worried about it. I could certainly still have problems. We only had 4,000 acres that burned an it's all in a canyon directly south of me. A fire could come from any other direction and have no trouble and a fire could even come from the south and "jump" the canyon that burnt which it does from embers which can go a huge distance. My problem is the amount of brush on my place which is a giant fire hazard. I clear brush for hours a day everyday. We are almost in our rainy season which if the drought doesn't continue should mean we start to get rain in a month or so.
I only use hand tools, axe, pickaxe, saw, pole saw, shovel, pruners so it will take me years and years at this rate. Here is a video I made yesterday for some friends back east who wanted to see my brush clearing project. [video=youtube;oQS7ebrDBdE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQS7ebrDBdE[/video]
Don't think that I would be temperamentally suited to your lifestyle in the long term, but watching that I feel slightly more disposed to be kind to my fellow man, knowing that thousands of miles away there is a City fan single-handedly taking on a project like this. I wish you all the luck in the world. It also cheered me up to see that YouTube, in it's never ending quest to recommend to me what I might like to watch next, suggested a project which involved washing up brushes made into a tortoise crawlerbot. Obviously 'brush project' means different things to different people!
Does this look like it is, Ellewoods? You'll probably recognise exactly where it is. http://www.nasa.gov/content/king-fire-in-california-false-color-infrared/
We're finally getting some decent rain up here in BC Kellen after a long dry summer. Hope its finding its way down to your area and will help knock down that fire. Good luck mate...lets hope for another win at WBA today!!
Yea thats the fire. That big lake on the right is Lake Tahoe. I am directly south like 15 miles from where the fire first started in that picture. They are listing the fire today at 94,000 acres.
Some rain would be nice. They are calling for 30 mph winds up at the fire today so there is a chance it might grow significantly. Tomorrow they are calling for a 20% chance of rain in the higher elevations near the fire so that might help out. The forest is so dense and dry up there that I dont know how they are going to put it out if they dont get some rain.
