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bladesparkHonestly surprised that hadn't happened already. >.< I'd share it here, but it's a map with my address on it.
We have one small window AC unit that doesn't quite keep up with cooling the house, so every night we open all the windows, and put fans in some of them. Last night there was a high wind warning, so we didn't bother with the fans, but we did open the windows still.
As I went to bed, I smelled a hint of distant fire. It had been hazy all day, and things were burning, but that's a fucked up kind of "normal", really. Happens every year.
This morning I woke up to find a fine drift of gray ash over most of the house.
That does not happen every year.
We shut all the windows and put the big air filter I own for work-related reasons on high, and the air inside is pretty clean now, but I'm going to have to get some febreeze or something for the sewing projects on my work table, which have all been dusted off but smell ever so faintly of fire still. Can't send them out to customers like that.
I went outside to water the garden. Then went back in and grabbed a mask, because ash was still snowing gently down. There are drifts of it against the front of the house. Tiny, tiny drifts, but still.
There is a level 2 (pack your things and be ready for the "go" at any moment) evacuation order just 11 miles from where I live.
The wind is blowing from the fire towards me. It's headed this way.
It almost certainly won't get here, as the entire urban centers of one major and one minor city lie between it and me, but if it's only turned aside rather than halted, and burns around the edges of the city, my mother in law will probably have to evacuate, she lives on the outskirts. So do all the rich people, though, so maybe they'll get extra fire-fighters in if it heads that way. (Why yes, my cynicism is showing.)
The sky is completely yellow-orange haze. The sun is a blood-red blur through it. It's like a thick overcast, but there are no clouds. It's entirely smoke and ash. Every time I look outside, it's still gently snowing down, tiny gray flakes piling up.
This feels so surreal. It looks like Mad Max out there. Like a documentary about a volcanic eruption. Like a scene from a book about the extinction of the dinosaurs.
It looks like the end of the world.
We have one small window AC unit that doesn't quite keep up with cooling the house, so every night we open all the windows, and put fans in some of them. Last night there was a high wind warning, so we didn't bother with the fans, but we did open the windows still.
As I went to bed, I smelled a hint of distant fire. It had been hazy all day, and things were burning, but that's a fucked up kind of "normal", really. Happens every year.
This morning I woke up to find a fine drift of gray ash over most of the house.
That does not happen every year.
We shut all the windows and put the big air filter I own for work-related reasons on high, and the air inside is pretty clean now, but I'm going to have to get some febreeze or something for the sewing projects on my work table, which have all been dusted off but smell ever so faintly of fire still. Can't send them out to customers like that.
I went outside to water the garden. Then went back in and grabbed a mask, because ash was still snowing gently down. There are drifts of it against the front of the house. Tiny, tiny drifts, but still.
There is a level 2 (pack your things and be ready for the "go" at any moment) evacuation order just 11 miles from where I live.
The wind is blowing from the fire towards me. It's headed this way.
It almost certainly won't get here, as the entire urban centers of one major and one minor city lie between it and me, but if it's only turned aside rather than halted, and burns around the edges of the city, my mother in law will probably have to evacuate, she lives on the outskirts. So do all the rich people, though, so maybe they'll get extra fire-fighters in if it heads that way. (Why yes, my cynicism is showing.)
The sky is completely yellow-orange haze. The sun is a blood-red blur through it. It's like a thick overcast, but there are no clouds. It's entirely smoke and ash. Every time I look outside, it's still gently snowing down, tiny gray flakes piling up.
This feels so surreal. It looks like Mad Max out there. Like a documentary about a volcanic eruption. Like a scene from a book about the extinction of the dinosaurs.
It looks like the end of the world.
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Date: 2020-09-09 02:40 am (UTC)It's just crazy, though. They're not even bothering to try to send out firefighters. It's a crown fire with a strong wind, and the only thing that can stop that is having time and space enough to build a huge firebreak, but there's neither time nor space before it hits the suburbs. The lack of fuel in the urban landscape should stop it before it crosses the city and reaches us, and the river and the highway and so on in between, but it's still just freaky. The ash keeps drifting higher. There are already refugees in town, and more coming in all the time. I went to the gas station to make sure the car was topped off in case we do have to run, and I've never seen it so busy. It's just nuts.
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Date: 2020-09-09 11:49 am (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2020-09-09 09:04 pm (UTC)But hey, it's 2020, so you had a mask handy!
I'm so sorry to hear about your awful situation. I'm crossing my fingers things will go well for you.