Forest Fire
They have 17,000 evacuated-about 1/2 of the Westside. And a bunch more on alert, though don't think they have evacuated anymore since during the night/early morning. The Glenrosa fire started somewhere around where I used to live before Richard and I got married. A little strange.
I went down to Jones St as we are catsitting for old neighbours there. You can see the fire at Rose Valley from there-the smoke plumes from it and see the helicopters flying in and out. That part of the fire they are only using air support as it is too dangerous to put in ground crews.
Weather unfortunately not cooperative as will be hot and dry, in the 30's the rest of the week, but today only 27, so that's better and much less wind,which caused lots of problems yesterday. A cold front blew in-with slightly cooler weather today-but that caused all the wind-gusts up to 60 kms/hr.
Pretty smokey as Mom said-I could smell it this morning when we got up-smells like campfire.
I went down to Jones St as we are catsitting for old neighbours there. You can see the fire at Rose Valley from there-the smoke plumes from it and see the helicopters flying in and out. That part of the fire they are only using air support as it is too dangerous to put in ground crews.
Weather unfortunately not cooperative as will be hot and dry, in the 30's the rest of the week, but today only 27, so that's better and much less wind,which caused lots of problems yesterday. A cold front blew in-with slightly cooler weather today-but that caused all the wind-gusts up to 60 kms/hr.
Pretty smokey as Mom said-I could smell it this morning when we got up-smells like campfire.
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posted by lisaandrichard at 12:58 PM
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But no reason for me not to visit, right?
no reason at all - theres a lake and 20 klicks between us and the conflagration
And will be nice weather while you are here.
Which seems to be unusual this year with guests-weather has been not so good when company here.
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