I watch the Northwest Interagency page on fires in the summer. Tuesday there was maybe 8 listings and most were pretty well contained. Today, BOOM, listings went about 3-times. Crazy. I am about 3-miles west of Sandy. Right now there is a couple degrees of sky to the NE, the rest is thick smoke (no smell here yet.) People that my nephew know were at evac 3 and brought their horses over. Told the owners, this is what country folk do for each other (this is rural Oregon.) Trees were a strange blue from sky light reflection this evening. At least riots and COVID were not on local news tonight. Should be OK, wind is from the Gorge (NE) and suppose to shift W>NW tomorrow That is all.
Sorry for double post.