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Originally Posted by old goat
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O snap!Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Same in CA. I had the wilderness ranger tell me where there's a fire and to watch for rolling rocks and logs. Yosemite has 2 fires right now, just monitoring. There's one in King's Canyon NP too - they have an advisory but no trails are closed - I suppose you could camp next to it (in it?). Might be a few others, I happened to stumble on those while looking at unrelated things. Lassen NP caught flack a few years ago when one of their monitored fires escaped into the surrounding forest. Most of these areas are high enough there aren't a lot of trees, nor chance of a large crown fire. (Lassen excluded)Quote:
Originally Posted by altasnob
Yosemite has had some wildfires in the past few years that they definitely did some firefighting work on; and with some of those, they let it burn within particular zones while monitoring it. Yose NP has been doing controlled burns for a very long time, back since when it was considered a somewhat novel idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by LongShortLong
(And thanks, Mike; that tidbit about China Peak came to me second hand, so good to hear that it probably didn't happen.)
I’m pretty sure a tanker pilot crashed and died a few years ago fighting a fire in Yosemite.
I'd like to see the CCC revived to do forest thinning. Good work for unemployed reasonably fit men and women without college degrees. Expand the age limit upwards and don't limit to single men.. Help solve our wildfire problem and our rural unemployment/underemployment problem. Pay a living wage.
Check yesterday's SierraNF briefing.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobz
That's liberal deep state physics! If you believe that the lord will send you fresh air, he will!Quote:
Originally Posted by muted
And don't forget patriot physics which is way better than liberal physics. If you shoot your AR 15 at the smoke often enough, it'll go away, just like immigrants who steal your jobs.
https://abc30.com/creek-fire-china-p...blaze/6414853/
Sounds like at least some part of the arsenal went off.
Just logged back into this shithole site for the first time in like seven months, so not sure if anybody has posted this yet, but there's a very interesting seminar being put on by University of California fire folks right now. Free and online. First session was yesterday.
Check it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6EOL_7akWI
Sign up here:
https://frg.berkeley.edu/california-...sx96VCePRH70O4
I found this graphic interesting.
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Regarding indoor air quality, one of the best things you can do is to run the fan on your hvac system with the house closed up. If it’s really bad seal fan entrances, etc. change the filters every couple of weeks or after the smoke clears. Your fan can probably do an air change of your house in a few hours.
Portable filters also work. I have a office shed I work out of and the difference is noticeable when I have a little $70 filter inside running.
One of the best economy filters you can make is to put a good hvac filter on the back of a box fan. Box fans move a lot of air. Make sure tape it / seal it to the back or a lot of the air will pass through any openings. I had a filter that was a little too small for the fan, so I took the cardboard sides off and stretched it over the fan. That also made it easier to tape it up with a good seal.
Happy breathing.
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It must suck living out west, for real.
Vibes
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Originally Posted by bobz
On the east slope of the Sierra,. It kinda sucks. But not the end of the world. No C S gas . It's just like being on the down wind side of a campfireQuote:
Originally Posted by buttahflake
I just saw a news blurb that the Multnomah County Sherrif is getting calls that armed civilians are setting up road blocks throughout the county..... Anyone else hear about that? Seems like a bad idea......
Spokane was 62 last night, now 159 and rising, I'm sure. The next 48 hours are going to suck.
Here’s what I was talking about. Corbet.
https://twitter.com/multcoso/status/...314930688?s=21
I have less than fond memories of the rice burning, but it was much more local as I recall ..... but then I was living in Davis so obviously didn't see what might have been happening in the Bay Area. While I would never blindly trust my memories of 60+ years ago, I have no recollection of any smoke days at all on the Peninsula. Another more current and local climate change issue is the complete disappearance of Tule/ground fog over the last 30 years - at most we now might see a little bit of high fog blow down from the North part of the Valley as the morning progresses that then quickly burns off.Quote:
Originally Posted by LongShortLong
We've come down a few points. Now at 435. Woot! Ugh. Came in from morning chores and had to throw all my clothes in the wash right away so they didn't stink up the house. So gross.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldMember
Animals seem to be handling it okay.
Idiots.Quote:
Originally Posted by seano732
AQI is 142 in Coeur d’Alene and rising like crazy. The visual degradation of the air since 6am this morning is significant as well. Keeping the house closed up with exhaust fans in bathrooms running. AQI forecast for the next couple of days is depressing but is supposed to lower significantly starting Tuesday.
I'd 100% believe that would be the case in areas around Corbett. That's 20 air miles from the nearest fire so the Antifa looters must really be spreading out.Quote:
Originally Posted by seano732
The Multnomah Sheriff isn't doing much to bolster their credibility in that situation with a tweet about "We understand their intent, but..."
2Funky if you're running the exhaust fans in the bathrooms all that is doing is pulling new smoky area into the house. Those fans aren't doing anything for air purification. Good luck with the smoke.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
^ Yeah, unless a house has a filtered make-up air system running exhaust fans will pull in more polluted outside air through leaks in the building structure.
I should have been more clear, just hit them this morning for a little while to clear the house. It works, house no longer smells of smoke from having the windows open all night. House is locked up tight now. Just put new whole house filters in yesterday and will change in a couple days.
Tried to sneak in a dawn patrol ride this morning at Beacon before the thick stuff rolls in. Had to call it after 10 miles...probably shouldn’t have goneQuote:
Originally Posted by GoldMember