At least 1,500 structures lost in Northern California fires
BartSimpson @ Mon Oct 09, 2017 11:43 am
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html
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At least 1,500 structures lost in Northern California firestorm, among worst in state's history
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At least 1,500 homes, businesses and other structures have been destroyed as more than 14 fires ravaged eight counties throughout Northern California late Sunday and Monday morning, authorities said.
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I'm really just finding out about this having been on pretty much radio silence over the weekend. This is all just about 60km away from me and out my window right now you can't even see the coastal mountains it's so smoky.
xerxes @ Mon Oct 09, 2017 2:08 pm
Damn that’s just awful. It seems like the whole west coast of NA was on fire this year.
xerxes @ Mon Oct 09, 2017 10:37 pm
Even worse, 10 have died now too.
DrCaleb @ Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:59 am
Yea, that wind seems to have caused hell on Earth, just like for Fort Mac last year and BC this year.
BartSimpson @ Tue Oct 10, 2017 2:38 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/us/califo ... index.html
Fifteen people known to be dead now. 
Strutz @ Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:37 pm
Pictures and coverage are very devastating. What a terrible year we are having everywhere for wildfires.
xerxes @ Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:00 pm
Whenever I read about terrible, costly wildfires such as this one, I always think about this song by Death Cab for Cutie..
BartSimpson @ Wed Oct 11, 2017 8:27 am
Okay, the wind is blowing smoke from the Yuba County fires into Sacramento and the air quality here right now is hideous. I can only imagine how the people near the fire are doing.
Here's the view out my window right now. Usually it's crystal clear.
DrCaleb @ Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:02 am
^^ That was this summer in Alberta. It got hard to even swallow sometimes.
Robair @ Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:19 am
Okanagan too...
xerxes @ Wed Oct 11, 2017 11:15 am
Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland as well. Hope your lungs work ok Bartman. Mine sure didn’t when the skies around here looked like that.
BartSimpson @ Wed Oct 11, 2017 11:24 am
xerxes xerxes:
Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland as well. Hope your lungs work ok Bartman. Mine sure didn’t when the skies around here looked like that.
I was in our 'clean room' earlier and STILL could smell smoke. It's that bad.
Thanks for the kind thoughts!
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DrCaleb @ Wed Oct 11, 2017 11:26 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
xerxes xerxes:
Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland as well. Hope your lungs work ok Bartman. Mine sure didn’t when the skies around here looked like that.
I was in our 'clean room' earlier and STILL could smell smoke. It's that bad.
Thanks for the kind thoughts!
Only advice I have, is put sprigs of mint in some water, and drink lots of it. Keeps the throat from getting too scratchy.
BartSimpson @ Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:04 pm
Normally I'd just get in the car and go somewhere else that the air is clean. Right now that means driving to Colorado. 
Mowich @ Wed Oct 11, 2017 4:48 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Normally I'd just get in the car and go somewhere else that the air is clean. Right now that means driving to Colorado.
Though we lost some structures when the fires were burning around here, Bart - most of the smoke was from the trees and vegetation. I would think the smoke in California is a mixture of burned vegetation and all the materials from the immolated neighborhoods, making it quite a bit more toxic. Please take care of yourself. It is heartbreaking to read of the deaths and destruction with no end in sight.