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No, but if they have a semi-attractive single female, age 18-60 that will be getting all the family money, I might be willing to work something out.Is your name Hammond?
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No, but if they have a semi-attractive single female, age 18-60 that will be getting all the family money, I might be willing to work something out.Is your name Hammond?
No need for tin foil, although those who cannot imagine certain nefarious deeds will tell you to wear it.I have my own suspicions about the Paradise fire as well as a few others. But I'm not going to break out the tinfoil haberdashery yet.
The last couple years the wildfires got a little too close for comfort here. Lots of smoke and ash too. Alas, I don't see it getting any better in this region, and it doesn't take much imagination to see it getting worse.
I would assume you have taken precautionary measures to limit a burn on your property? How about your water supply, are you able to access large amounts?
Any suppression capabilities?
Also assuming you, the Smurfey one and little Taters have a bug out plan, are you able to relocate for a few days to a few weeks?
No, but if they have a semi-attractive single female, age 18-60 that will be getting all the family money, I might be willing to work something out.
1 Billion Acres? Not buying it.
The 50 states contain 2.3 billion acres.
I'm not buying the claim that 43% is subject to catastrophic wildfire.
Also stands to reason that Canada would have to be included by default, due to sharing the border with Alaska which has 425 million acres...I think they said "America", not the USA. That could include Canada and Mexico - you know, those other countries that share the continent with us?
Yet again.
This morning I was driving off to work and I usually glance over to my property when I get around the area over to the other side about a mile away because my clearcut is easier to see from there.
This morning I glanced at it and there was a plume of smoke coming from a pile. So I turned around, got home, put on my grungy clothes and boots, filled up some containers of water and headed over in the 4x4.
I got there and there was open flame. Small, campfire sized - but open flame and it was trying to spread.
Almost two months ago I was working on this same pile, stepped into a hole filled with ashes, lost my balance and severely burned my left arm (enough to wind up in the ER).
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It was hot then and it is still so hot that it is still burning under the ground.
Last week I had to deal with smoke coming from a different pile. Every time I drive home from anywhere else, I stop at the top of the hill and examine that area with binoculars. Last night was no exception - no smoke. In the space of about twelve hours that pile spread and exposed the burning underground to be open flame. It has been breezy here for about a week and if I had not noticed it this morning that fire could have spread to the woods.
So be careful out there. It doesn't take much. Be vigilant.
Sounds like you need to get a big tractor of some sort with a ripper or rake and pull it through those piles a few times!
Roots will hold embers for a very long time, and if you get winds through there often, its only going to keep going!
Salem & DC for a start.
Yet again.
This morning I was driving off to work and I usually glance over to my property when I get around the area over to the other side about a mile away because my clearcut is easier to see from there.
This morning I glanced at it and there was a plume of smoke coming from a pile. So I turned around, got home, put on my grungy clothes and boots, filled up some containers of water and headed over in the 4x4.
I got there and there was open flame. Small, campfire sized - but open flame and it was trying to spread.
Almost two months ago I was working on this same pile, stepped into a hole filled with ashes, lost my balance and severely burned my left arm (enough to wind up in the ER).
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I am going to have some pretty good scars on that arm for quite a while.
It was hot then and it is still so hot that it is still burning under the ground.
Last week I had to deal with smoke coming from a different pile. Every time I drive home from anywhere else, I stop at the top of the hill and examine that area with binoculars. Last night was no exception - no smoke. In the space of about twelve hours that pile spread and exposed the burning underground to be open flame. It has been breezy here for about a week and if I had not noticed it this morning that fire could have spread to the woods.
So be careful out there. It doesn't take much. Be vigilant.
I've written our ultra-left tree-hugging Oregon legislators many times asking why they don't loose the strings on logging? I think clear cut areas that are completely cleared out, brush and all then replanted with young trees would benefit EVERYONE! More tax revenue, more people working in the logging industry, cleared land is no longer a fire hazard and is beneficial to wildlife. But no, Oregon .gov wants MORE money to fight wild fires! Kinda makes ya wonder what the hell is going on and who is benefiting from status quo?Didn't click. However...
I'm wondering what screaming that we're all going to burn up is supposed to accomplish. 1B, 2B, 10B, why not 500B, it strikes me as fearmongering so they can get more money. Not that more funding is not needed, but have you ever been on a fire, seen the waste by gov agencies?
I have gotten pretty dang good at operating track hoes, mostly John Deere control. I'm retired and would volunteer to run one but it would have to be after I get done fighting the white collar criminals (who faked our signatures on what they are calling the note on our loan) We know that the MERS debacle destroyed our original note and have been fighting the criminals a long time but they managed to fool a county judge that the fake note they produced is real. Too long a story for here. Anyway, if I get done fighting them my time would free up. If someone else or a group would fund the extended use of a medium size track hoe (with thumb) we could help solve your problem. Some volunteer hoe time would do me good & would take my mind off what is happening to me and mine.The local FD has been up here a few times to fight slash fires that got out of control or that flare up. They generally don't deal with this kind of thing though; it is up to the landowner to keep an eye on such issues - and most of us do (except sometimes if the landowner doesn't live up here). The fire dept. doesn't have the equipment to deal with burning deep in the ground. As long as their is no open flame they generally don't respond.
It would take an excavator to dig down into the ground, and then a water truck to dump water on it. Most landowners just wait it out and keep an eye on the piles because equipment is pretty expensive and paying someone to do this is even more expensive. That is what I am doing - but I still have 10+ unburnt piles to dispose of. A neighbor may be having someone come up with equipment to mulch his piles - I didn't know there was anyone local who did that. I may have them do mine if it is possible (remaining piles are mostly in the gully) and not too expensive.
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I am mostly healed now. No open wounds and it no longer hurts. My wrist is still tender though and I think I wrenched my shoulder a bit.