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24 Jul 07 - 09:36 AM (#2109984) Subject: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Alice This photo will only be on the newspaper's website today, but it shows how the air here is hazy with smoke from the forest fires in our region. Smoky sunset with mule deer... Click here |
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24 Jul 07 - 09:42 AM (#2109994) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Sorcha Wyoming has been lucky.......so far. |
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24 Jul 07 - 09:44 AM (#2110023) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Rapparee Yep. Just like here, too. Nothing like watching junipers and cedars and sage explode into flame -- as long as you're a safe distance off. Nevada's burning off 900 square miles in just one fire right now.... And while the Interagency Fire group has raised the fire level to 5, which permits calling on the National Guard for help, what units ARE around and not in Iraq or Afghanistan don't even have the trucks to transport their own people, much less the equipment needed for fire suppression either directly or with logistical support. |
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24 Jul 07 - 09:49 AM (#2110025) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Alice What happened to Sorcha's post? |
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24 Jul 07 - 09:51 AM (#2110026) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Big Mick I am not sure why Sorcha's post was deleted but I have restored it. We are under a spam attack and I suspect it was inadvertently deleted. If there are others, feel free to PM me and I will check on them. All the best, Mick |
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24 Jul 07 - 09:56 AM (#2110030) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Alice I can smell smoke in the air. We had a fire start on the edge of town yesterday, but I think they contained it before it swept up the mountain to the forest. The grass grew fast with early rains, so now it has dried out in the 100 f heat and is a real hazard. |
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24 Jul 07 - 10:02 AM (#2110032) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Midchuck Kris and I are gonna be out there in about 2 1/2 weeks. Would you get it cleaned up before we get there, please? Peter. |
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24 Jul 07 - 10:05 AM (#2110035) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Alice Will try! I wish it would rain. The lawn feels like walking on rice crispies, it is so bad. |
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24 Jul 07 - 11:00 AM (#2110085) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: SINSULL Must be scary as well, Alice. Here in Maine we have had almost nothing but rain. I will wish some your way. Mary |
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24 Jul 07 - 11:43 AM (#2110125) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Donuel The fire west of Salt Lake City Utah was in no mans land since it is the US depository for nerve gas and chemical weapons. We may never hear what happened there for a long time. Naybe google earth will show the facility but often things like that are blurred out. |
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24 Jul 07 - 11:56 AM (#2110141) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Rapparee It's under fire attack. And it's a training range for Mountain Home AFB; it's not Touele Army Depot. |
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25 Jul 07 - 09:38 AM (#2110860) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: open mike i am planning to travel from eastern nebraska to montana and oregon-- next week. perhaps i should check out the areas which are burning before deciding on the route? |
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25 Jul 07 - 09:47 AM (#2110865) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Sorcha Yes, Mick, it was inadverdent. Got a PM from the One Who Did It saying Sorry. Laurel, that might be a VERY good idea. |
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25 Jul 07 - 10:49 AM (#2110936) Subject: RE: BS: Forest Fire Photo From: Alice The interstate east and west is clear, but they did have to slow down some traffic near Helena going north and south the other day because of the smoke causing visibility problems. I don't think you'll have any trouble if you are staying on I 90. Near West Yellowstone, there is smoke from Idaho and fires in Yellowstone. |
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13 Aug 07 - 09:30 AM (#2124713) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Alice I woke up to the strong smell of burning trees. The normally deep blue sky is grey with smoke. The front page of the paper (link in first post) is again a forest fire photo, but this time a column of smoke from a fire called the Wicked Creek fire. When the column of smoke first rose, it looked like a volcano plume above the peaks. Windows are closed up now and I'm running the air filter. Alice |
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13 Aug 07 - 09:45 AM (#2124719) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Sorcha How close are you to the fire? Will you need to evacuate? |
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13 Aug 07 - 09:51 AM (#2124724) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Alice I'm not close to flames, just a lot of smoke. It is near Livingston. |
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13 Aug 07 - 09:55 AM (#2124729) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Alice Fires all over the state were started this weekend by dry lightening. There are evacuations with some of the fires near subdivisions and towns, like Seeley Lake, where people have had to evacuate twice now. |
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13 Aug 07 - 09:59 AM (#2124733) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Alice Here is more news and photos. Click here |
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13 Aug 07 - 10:42 AM (#2124774) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: katlaughing I've been hearing about this on NPR and thinking of you, Alice. Good to know you are too near to it, though I know the smoke is no picnic. Thanks for the links and for checking in. kat |
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13 Aug 07 - 10:44 AM (#2124775) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Bill D For those who are interested in keeping track of such things (and who have a broadband connection!), there is a FREE program for Windows which will track world-wide events in weather, fire, volcanos...etc. See here...Earth Alerts You can also enter specific locations you wish to monitor in the US and its possessions. I got this map using it, which shows how concentrated the current fire situation is. |
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14 Aug 07 - 12:47 AM (#2124995) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: rangeroger There are 35 large fires burning in Idaho and Montana with about 750,000 acres on fire at this time. There are 23 fires burning in the rest of the states combined. I recently read an article in a 2 year old copy of the American Horseman about the Flat Creek ranch in Southern Idaho. The Murphy Complex fire swept through it for a total of more than a 1000 square miles. The owners still haven't been able to count how many thousands of head of cattle they lost. We've been lucky up here in the panhandle of Idaho, but conditions are dry,dry,dry, and the temp is headed for the high 90's again. With thunderstorms predicted for the end of the week. rr |
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14 Aug 07 - 12:56 AM (#2124999) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Midchuck I've been hearing about this on NPR and thinking of you, Alice. Good to know you are too near to it, though I know the smoke is no picnic. Not just Alice! We're here too, right at the moment. Very smoky in Bozeman this morning. Kris and I drove down Gallatin Canyon, to get a short hike, and it was clear down there. But coming back up, it was smoky in the northern part of the canyon and at Gallatin Gateway, but clearer in Bozeman. The whole cloud must have blown down the canyon. Peter. |
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14 Aug 07 - 09:12 AM (#2125161) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Sorcha Smoke here this morning. Not sure if it's from the (small, so far) fires on Casper Mountain or from the Little Goose fire up near Sheridan/Crow Indian Reservation. |
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14 Aug 07 - 09:47 AM (#2125177) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Sorcha And, at least 3 under 500 acres in the Northern Nebraska panhandle, around Chadron. Bugger. |
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14 Aug 07 - 02:48 PM (#2125395) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: GUEST,Alice at Butte Library I'm over in Butte, and this has to be the worst smoke than anywhere I've driven through, without actually being next to a fire. Coming in over the pass, you can't even see the town or the mountains for all the smoke. |
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15 Aug 07 - 12:13 AM (#2125741) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Rapparee Quite. I drove from Sweetwater to the Idaho border on I-15 today and it was smoke, smoke, smoke all the way. Butte, Helena, Dillon, Shelby -- nothing but smoke and some little bit of haze. Not much in Alberta and not much south of (roughly) Spencer, Idaho. I'm home now and there's nearly nothing in the air at the moment. |
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15 Aug 07 - 09:25 AM (#2125961) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Rapparee What is going on, a satellite's perspective. |
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15 Aug 07 - 09:40 AM (#2125972) Subject: RE: BS: Montana Forest Fire Photo From: Sandra in Sydney thanks for the image, & the reports. Best wishes to all. We've a few months to go before our fire season starts. Back in 1994 we had huge fires ringing Sydney & I've still got 3 carbonised leaves I found in the water at Bondi Beach, 50 miles from the main fires. sandra |
