105,000 acres and 0% containment.
100 miles away in Sacramento the Air Quality Index is >230. We never saw the sun today.
actually winds of 40-50 starting tonight above lake Oroville and 30 MPH in oroville
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Where is the New Modernized Air Tanker Fleet that Barack Hussein Obama cancelled? Oh I just read my own question. That Dumbass cancelled them.
Here in Rocklin, about 40 miles due south. It looks like it is overcast and the smoke looks like a moderate fog at ground level. And it smells very strongly.
We are 170 miles from Chico here on the San Fran Peninsula. It took about seven hours for the smoke to get here yesterday which was unprecedented. No sun today, high humidity combined with the smoke so it was a real murky mess today. Big reddish orange ball at sunset in the hills today.
We found out that a friend’s house in Paradise was spared — the rear deck burned, but not the house! Of course, now they will be surrounded by burned-out forest, not beautiful healthy trees. But they are fortunate to be alive unlike so many others.
Oroville? Isn’t that the dam they almost lost a couple of years ago? The one that tore up the spillway and emergency spillway?
We are waiting for our evacuation orders. Ash falling tonight. Loading the RV and will finish loading the busvan with our fair goods/business. The other vehicle gets loaded with all the dyes and shirt blanks. Yes, we tie dye. Like bright colors and Grateful Dead and very limited governemnt! Don’t know how we move three vehicles with two people. Will figure it out. Luckily we have time. Unlike the poor folks in Paradise that had minutes to flee. Still a lot of ground before it comes here...all depends on the winds. COming from the NE which is in direct line with us.... Yikes.
“100 miles away in Sacramento the Air Quality Index is >230. We never saw the sun today. “
Ditto down here in Danville. Actually we were in Napa today and the air there for some reason was a lot clearer that what we have here at home. BAAQMD said to expect an AQI of 159 in Napa. Had to do some outside work there, and had to wear a mask all day.
Concerned, I called the fire department, who stated, "They have a permit for a weekend burn". :-/
23 lives v. undergrowth
CA chooses undergrowth every time.