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Post by crabbyjim on Aug 22, 2020 18:21:23 GMT -8
Jay, would you please 'splain it to Phil. Uff da!
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Post by nikeajax on Aug 23, 2020 7:50:58 GMT -8
Duluth Minnesota: known for getting extremely cold because it's on Lake Superior, but should have been spelled, Dulut': en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duluth%2C_MinnesotaUff-da! Quite literally "Oh s**t!" in Norwegian ( NOT Swedish or Danish), but is a catchall phrase, can be both good and bad, sorta like "well I'll be!" Lot's of Norwegians in Minnesota Right now anything cold sounds good to me, as my house has ZERO insulation. JB
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Post by nikeajax on Aug 23, 2020 8:47:50 GMT -8
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Post by broxton coalition on Aug 23, 2020 11:24:32 GMT -8
hey hey hey, you guys be careful and use "uff da" ONLY in case of a Norwegian sudden unexpected visit! All you guys living close to the fires please VALUE your lives, the lives of your family, and safety above all else! I can only imagine how scary it would be to live that close to all those fires. i see on the news there was something called a "historic Lighting siege" of an estimated 12,000 lighting strikes last week, YIKES!!! we are expected here in Minnesota this week to see a "haze" around the sun. BC
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Post by nikeajax on Aug 23, 2020 11:50:31 GMT -8
BC, I am VERY proud of both my Irish and Norwegian heritage! If you get a chance, look up why Honda had to change the name of their car called the "Fit" in Scandinavia BWAAA-HAHAHA! It's slang for a woman's naughty bits: my wife and I laugh every time we see one on the road! Yes, I've never seen lightning like that anywhere: I would estimate the strikes were happening about every five to ten seconds at its height. At the time I thought it was great, but... JB
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Post by crabbyjim on Aug 23, 2020 11:53:32 GMT -8
Yumpin lutefisk, that lightning sure ban close! Actually, Monterey's River fire has moved many miles south from its point of origin and is threatening to join the Carmel Valley Fire. We live just north of where the fire started and our homes are in no danger but we are still exiled to a beachfront condo on Monterey Bay. Sadly, many people are not as fortunate as we are. The fire north of us, like the ones that Phil referred to, are much more dangerous.
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Post by nikeajax on Aug 24, 2020 14:05:17 GMT -8
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Post by SeaRat on Aug 24, 2020 18:31:51 GMT -8
JB,
Thanks for the update. At last you can breath when outside now. 'Still praying for lots of rain without any lightning.
John
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Post by nikeajax on Aug 25, 2020 14:12:09 GMT -8
To help put things into perspective, the city of San Francisco is about 47-sqaure miles and the SCU fire is 568-sqaure miles (15% contained), the CZU fire is 123-square miles (17% contained).
John, you must be getting some of the smoke by now aren't you? I know that Medford, OR is...
The air quality here is 101-PPM (unhealthy), some places in the Central Valley are up to numbers like 450-PPM!
JB
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Post by SeaRat on Sept 11, 2020 13:41:46 GMT -8
To help put things into perspective, the city of San Francisco is about 47-sqaure miles and the SCU fire is 568-sqaure miles (15% contained), the CZU fire is 123-square miles (17% contained). John, you must be getting some of the smoke by now aren't you? I know that Medford, OR is... The air quality here is 101-PPM (unhealthy), some places in the Central Valley are up to numbers like 450-PPM! JB JB, I am sitting in my home's office, looking out an an orange sky. The sun did not shine through the 6,000 feet of smoke, and I hear we have worse air pollution than any place in the world right now. It was cold, 57 degrees F this morning, and hasn't warmed up much today. Chris and I went out for a walk yesterday, before the smoke descended upon us, and are glad we did as we don't want to go out today to walk. I have been watched the TV (maybe a mistake) and see we've lost whole towns in Oregon (Mill City, much of Phoenix near Medford, Detroit on the Santiam River), and that is really disheartening. I watched that with tears, as I have great childhood memories of fishing and snorkeling while my family fished on the Detroit Reservoir. Here's what it looked like as these clouds come in on Tuesday: IMG_1668 by John Ratliff, on Flickr Then, on Wednesday, the clouds got ominous: fullsizeoutput_28b6 by John Ratliff, on Flickr fullsizeoutput_28b8 by John Ratliff, on Flickr Yesterday, the clouds showed the smoke, but it was above us. So we went out for a six mile walk. Today, the cloud has descended, and the air is awful, with a smoky smell and no sun shining through. I went out to get the paper this morning, and the night light was on. So we are in a holding pattern. Between the COVID-19 problems, and the fires, it's been quite a summer. I've tried diving four times, gotten underwater twice (problems on the other two), so for diving it's kinda been a lost summer. Chris was quite relieved to learn that we have a very large river, the Willamette River, between us and the fires. But the air isn't stopped by the river. I have been out on my bicycles, and recently rebuilt my son's frame into a new bicycle. Remember in the Spring when I had a bicycle accident? Well, that frame was toast, but my son loaned me a frame of his, and I've rebuilt that into a very nice bicycle. fullsizeoutput_28a2 by John Ratliff, on Flickr I was able to take my camera out on a 10+ mile ride Wednesday when Chris had to work. She was called at 5:55 AM because the OHSU pharmacy had an emergency. One of their pharmacists had been up all night because they were in an evacuation area, so she had to get in to work. I took the time to do a bicycle ride, and got a few good photos: _MG_8553 by John Ratliff, on Flickr Bethany Lake _MG_8558 by John Ratliff, on Flickr No, this isn't a beaver, but rather a nutria. Nutria were brought here in the 1800s as a possible fur trade animal, but the fur trade never panned out for nutria, so they were simply released. They now compete with beaver for the water areas. John
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Post by nikeajax on Sept 11, 2020 14:42:01 GMT -8
John, thanks for the heads up! One thing to remember is: no matter what is happening, things can always be worse-- no matter what! I just learned the Phoenix-fire was set deliberately Tuesday we had roofers come to finish the job they started--geeze, we coulda waited, but people need to work... We had those ominous high clouds too: I woke up at 8:00-AM, but it looked like 8:00-PM. It was a really weird feeling, like I just couldn't get into the grove of things all day long. Fire is a very healthy part of the ecosystem, we're just not used to it and not at this high of volume. California, Oregon and Washington have very literally evolved with fire being vital to a healthy environment: unfortunately the US Forest Service got it in their heads that all fires were bad. Without fires, undergrowth builds up too much and those fires that should be healthy become too big and destroy everything, sterilizing the ground. Two very important plants that come to mind that require fire are of course, California Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) and Manzanita (Arctostaphylos) Manzanita are one of those shrubs that are all over the West Coast, all the way up to Alaska! Yes, things look dreadful right now, but they will be back actually better than ever; it's just very hard to see that right now, especially when you see things like the charred remains of 800-year old oaks--sorry! Every time we have fires, it scours out the invasive species like Ripgut (Bromus diandrus) Vinca (Apocynaceae), whereas native grasses, like Purple Needlegrass (Nassella pulchra) send down super deep roots, like 25-feet, and all the nice fauna it attracts, and they tell two friends, and they tell two friends and so on and so on Just try to stay focused on what's really important, like the people we love! JB
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Post by SeaRat on Sept 11, 2020 14:53:42 GMT -8
John, thanks for the heads up! One thing to remember is: no matter what is happening, things can always be worse-- no matter what! I just learned the Phoenix-fire was set deliberately ... JB JB, I think you are mistaking the fire in Phoenix, Oregon (near Medford, Oregon) with the fire in Phoenix, Arizona. I don't think the Oregon fire was deliberately set. John
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Post by nikeajax on Sept 11, 2020 15:23:03 GMT -8
Mmmm, no, actually, my wife was telling me they have video footage of the (expletive deleted) who did it... Evidently it was some self righteous (expletive deleted) who threw something inflammable into a gated community... Boy, I guess he sure showed everyone, didn't he? JB
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Post by SeaRat on Sept 11, 2020 16:26:40 GMT -8
Mmmm, no, actually, my wife was telling me they have video footage of the (expletive deleted) who did it... Evidently it was some self righteous (expletive deleted) who threw something inflammable into a gated community... Boy, I guess he sure showed everyone, didn't he? JB JB, Let's hold off on this until the investigations are completed. John PS, KOIN 6 News said this evening that police had arrested a fellow for arson; your wife was right, JB.
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Post by nikeajax on Sept 12, 2020 7:46:30 GMT -8
I've been looking at: www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/everyday. There is a fire in the Mendocino National Forest: for the longest time it stated that "this is not a Calfire incident" and couldn't find any information on it. This morning I see that it now is a Calfire and is 768 square miles: I think this is the one that turned the sky that jaundiced color. On a side note, one of the members on my Coleman forum was saying that when people take pictures of the spooky clouds, their cameras, usually celphones, are overcompensating and making the image much more red than it actually is. JB
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