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These dead trees and heavy underbrush has made these forest fires into furnaces which kill everything in their path. During one massive fire in Montana there were thousands of elk, deer, bear and every other species found dead after the fire. They become disoriented and trapped in the fire as their escape paths are choked off and succumb to the smoke and heat to be burned alive. These fires burn far hotter than any temperatures they have seen in the past. The average temperatures in the old forest fires or in properly managed forests used to be 700-800 degrees and now these blast furnaces are burning over 1000 degrees scorching everything in their path.

Those fires in Montana burned a million acres of forests--the size of the entire state of NEW JERSEY. Friends who intended to vacation in Montana's Glacier National Park, were turned away by the fires, and thick smoke and ash. Meanwhile, the Drivebys, focused on the East Coast hurricanes, pretty much ignored the western wildfires. A metaphor?

Meanwhile, the Drivebys, focused on the East Coast hurricanes, pretty much ignored the western wildfires. A metaphor?

I'm right in the middle of the fires, the Montana excuse for news media has followed their Masters' lead in ignoring everything but the Really Big Stories out in Western Montana while the rest of the state gets

http://gis.dnrc.mt.gov/apps/firemap/ (Make sure you hit the "DNRC Fire Reports" layer block)

...and the only thing close to a metaphor I can think of is "We didn't vote the way the Elites wanted so we can just shut up and burn out."

Am I PO'd?

Haven't had any fires. Yet.

Friends and neighbors who have aren't really out loud PO'd, but between the rumors making the rounds out in the Eastern ranchlands and the absolute dead silence after those words get passed, BLM/Forest Service/USDA people might be more comfortable if we all were having screaming fits.

This whole situation sucks.