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2 Forest Fires Prompt Evacuations In N. Michigan
www.wnem.com/news/23597554/detail.html ^ | May 19, 2010

Posted on 05/19/2010 6:44:51 PM PDT by Gosh I love this neighborhood

May 18, 2010 ... A fire that has already charred 7500 acres in Crawford County and ... Crews put out one of two forest fires in dry, windy northern Michigan, ...

(Excerpt) Read more at gaylordheraldtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: fire; michigan; northernmichigan
I've heard that 10 homes have burned already in this area and people have been evacuated.
1 posted on 05/19/2010 6:44:52 PM PDT by Gosh I love this neighborhood
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To: Gosh I love this neighborhood

Drive up 127 and there are miles and miles of new growth jackpines from fires in the fairly recent past.


2 posted on 05/19/2010 6:46:38 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Gosh I love this neighborhood

I’ve heard that several homes have already burned.


3 posted on 05/19/2010 6:47:16 PM PDT by Gosh I love this neighborhood
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I know someone in Harbor Springs, that anywhere near there?


4 posted on 05/19/2010 6:52:33 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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I think Harbor Springs is farther north.


5 posted on 05/19/2010 6:54:54 PM PDT by Gosh I love this neighborhood
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To: Gosh I love this neighborhood

OK. Thanks.


6 posted on 05/19/2010 6:58:54 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert
Pretty sparsely populated up there. Only some 14,000 people in the county.

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7 posted on 05/19/2010 7:11:49 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: MsLady

Northern MI ping


8 posted on 05/19/2010 8:33:40 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Navy Mom)
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To: Gosh I love this neighborhood

YIKES!!!! It has been very dry here. We’ve had maybe 2 days of good rain since the last time it snowed. Maybe 2 months. Other than that, just a few days of sprinkles and maybe a light shower.


9 posted on 05/20/2010 4:47:47 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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Yes that area is very sparsely populated. There isn’t much from past Grayling, Gaylord on up. Till you get to Marquette.
Small town at the bridge and that’s about it.


10 posted on 05/20/2010 4:51:34 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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Beautiful country in any case and it will be again pretty quickly when things start growing again.


11 posted on 05/20/2010 4:58:16 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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I didn’t realize it had been that dry up that way. April was a bit dry here in the south but we’ve gotten several inches of rain in May.


12 posted on 05/20/2010 5:00:56 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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It hasn’t rained since this past saturday/sunday and there is no rain predicted until tuesday. I can’t tell you how often they’ve predicted rain and all we got was clouds our sprinkles.


13 posted on 05/20/2010 5:03:05 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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I spent a week near Lewiston about two years ago and it rained every day but was dry down this way.


14 posted on 05/20/2010 5:06:31 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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Where I live, it’ll be cloudy but, rain below us. I sure hope we get normal amount of rain this year. We less snow then we normally have too. And I am smelling smoke this morning off and on. I smelled something when I first got up but, wasn’t sure what I was smelling. If there is a fire around here I don’t see it. I live on a hill in the country, I can see Lake Superior from the side of the house and all around my house there are no trees close so I have a pretty open view, except for the front of the house. I don’t see any smoke. But, I sure smell something.


15 posted on 05/20/2010 6:44:10 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Gosh I love this neighborhood
I grew up right by there. My neighbors are in my prayers.
16 posted on 05/20/2010 6:49:07 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (I don't look for leaders. I follow my own path, my way.)
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Harbor Springs is over by Petoskey, about 65 miles Northwest.


17 posted on 05/20/2010 6:50:33 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (I don't look for leaders. I follow my own path, my way.)
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Roscommon.


18 posted on 05/20/2010 6:51:32 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (I don't look for leaders. I follow my own path, my way.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Thank you


19 posted on 05/20/2010 4:17:40 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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