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2024 Wildfire season. :(

300sniper said:
Those mandatory evac areas seem extremely excessive?
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All the way up north of Wentworth? Yeah, a bit excessive. I believe fire is still 3-4 miles from sniffing Wentworth but I can somewhat understand abundance of caution.

It is just damn inconvenient for those of us on the northside:homer:

The GV stuff? Maybe not so much. I know one person just east of 193 in GV that if she heads to work, she gets hosed. OTOH, if mandatory evacs hold, she may not be working anyways:emb:

I don't have any interesting pictures as above... but five miles north, when I look south above tree line I see stars with no smoke.
 
We just got the auto call from EDSO about being in the evac warning area.
I’ve got to go out is town in the AM returning Friday. I’m not concerned of the fire at all, it I am concerned about not being able to get home.
 
300sniper said:
We just got the auto call from EDSO about being in the evac warning area.
I’ve got to go out is town in the AM returning Friday. I’m not concerned of the fire at all, it I am concerned about not being able to get home.
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Sometimes depending on the LEO, and the fire direction they will let you in to save all your livestock that you rushed home for once you heard of the fire.
 
Stay safe everyone.

We got a lot of fires up here right now, My neighbourhood is ok right now thankfully. Been watering around the house and going to limb more trees and chip up more dropped branches if I can this weekend

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300sniper said:
We just got the auto call from EDSO about being in the evac warning area.
I’ve got to go out is town in the AM returning Friday. I’m not concerned of the fire at all, it I am concerned about not being able to get home.
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My elderly neighbor got the call (in Pollock pines.. to a land line) @around 0200 today.. he was kinda freaked out about it at the time.
 
WLDWUN said:
top pic is typical high desert landscape.
mostly sagebrush. burns hot and fast

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Yes it does. Had a fast moving lightning storm roll through today. Was able to get around it before it got to any structures.

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urjb said:
My elderly neighbor got the call (in Pollock pines.. to a land line) @around 0200 today.. he was kinda freaked out about it at the time.
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More freaky is getting 'the stop' by LEO:eek: I just got the third time in six years at getting the 1am knock from LEO. 'Morning. Just letting you know you are in a mandatory zone'.

It looks like the voluntary zone spread west to include all of Garden Valley.

I'm still not hugely worried about it but the fire did blow up to 700 acres now. But I will start staging the bug out stuff(pet supplies, clothes, food)

edit Just did a measurement and it is roughly 10 miles as the crow flies.
 
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Looks like as soon as it got around the bare area on that Slate Mountain ridge, it blew up around it to the east/north east. I predict it’ll be over the Hotel Bret Harte today.
 
From Roseville. The colum nearly doubled in the time it took me to take and post that Pic.
Winds are picking up down here.
Be safe. I got a room and some space if anyone needs.
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here is a view showing where the fire is, current wind direction and structures

wind will change and come out of the southwest soon
Quintette is the small blob of structure due north of the fire, Georgetown is to the west of that.
bare area the King fire burn scar from 2014

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I just read that it was started by a guy(or two) with a blow torch:eek: And the suspect is out on bail... not clear if it was $10k bail or if it was $10k to secure bail(ie 10%)

I haven't heard from my friend yet but they should be at work.

It is a bit smokey to the south of me(way up from horizon) but I'm still not sweating it. I'm looking at heading off hill tonight unless GV gets full evac and I won't get to head to work.
 
WLDWUN said:
here is a view showing where the fire is, current wind direction and structures

wind will change and come out of the southwest soon
Quintette is the small blob of structure due north of the fire, Georgetown is to the west of that.
bare area the King fire burn scar from 2014

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Are those arrows indicating winds in a WNW direction?
 
trampas said:
Are those arrows indicating winds in a WNW direction?
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as mentioned, yes

very typical for the foothills.
winds in the early morning will be downslope, cold air coming down the mountain.

once it warms up the winds change back to coming out of the southwest.
currently it looks like they are now out of the south.
 
WLDWUN said:
as mentioned, yes

very typical for the foothills.
winds in the early morning will be downslope, cold air coming down the mountain.

once it warms up the winds change back to coming out of the southwest.
currently it looks like they are now out of the south.
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That's what i thought, the afternoon patterns i mean. Didn't know the mornings were like that, as im coastal.
 
WLDWUN said:
as mentioned, yes

very typical for the foothills.
winds in the early morning will be downslope, cold air coming down the mountain.

once it warms up the winds change back to coming out of the southwest.
currently it looks like they are now out of the south.
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catabatic and anabatic if my memory serves correctly, long time since I did Met 101

the cool cat creeps down the mountain at night
 
was looking better this morning, but has really started kicking up in the last 30 minutes.

these are 40 minutes apart

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Mountain-Dweller said:
Got as close as 1.2 miles from me, Fuck Wildfires:flipoff:
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If it looks like your house is still in danger, don't trust the Watchduty map to be 100% accurate... don't assume you lost it until you have someone with eyes on it.

I went through same thing two years ago with Mosquito fire. WD showed my house being in the fire:eek: I pretty much just said "oh well, fuck it". It wasn't until two days later that a co-worker's firefighter husband got eyes on it and said 'good to go'. As it turns out, the fire got within 1/2 mile.
 
300sniper said:
Fawk. 4 hours from home and the power just went out. Going to have to walk my wife through getting the portable gen set up.

Never going to hear the end of this one. Have a whole house gen waiting for me to install for a few years now….
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I need to do the same.

I need to get Mrs trained on the new electric start generator I picked up for glamping.

Mrs is the one who has been looking at the whole house backup generator. I think all we need is a generator plug and a transfer switch. We don’t have outages that often.
 
300sniper said:
Fawk. 4 hours from home and the power just went out. Going to have to walk my wife through getting the portable gen set up.

Never going to hear the end of this one. Have a whole house gen waiting for me to install for a few years now….
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shows they estimate it will be back on about 8:30pm

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smurfblue40 said:
I need to do the same.

I need to get Mrs trained on the new electric start generator I picked up for glamping.

Mrs is the one who has been looking at the whole house backup generator. I think all we need is a generator plug and a transfer switch. We don’t have outages that often.
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See if SMUD, which I'm assuming is your provider, does the meter sockets with the gen plug built in like PGE does. That's what we did for my dad's house.
 
I got a new main service panel, sub with a gen socket installed 3 months ago.

Did I build the cord to hook up the gen?

Nope. At least I’m in good company.

Wife does have her own 2200W inverter gen she can fire and hook up herself to run her office and the fridge. Which brings up Fail #2. It needs a new spark plug and an oil change.

Headed to the shop now to work on it. And I don’t have much gas here for Fail #3.
 
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