OT Last hot weekend

[Road Ratt]

 

[Shaboid]

A friend sent a pic from the mariners game yesterday and it looked pretty gross up there as well.

It clears a bit once you get past Battleground. The weirdest part is that a majority of the smoke is coming from the west instead of the east like I'm used to.

 

[THE HCP]

From my backyard......

 

[SlyPokerCat]

Big fire on i84 east ramp off of 205. The entire side of a part of it was toasted. Burnt to a crisp.

 

[crandc]

Here by the Bay temperature way down. Lucia much livelier. Auto correct changed to lovelier. Also true.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Damn, it's smokey outside.

My daughter had an asthma attack this morning. Hadn't used her inhaler since the last time it was this smokey.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Windmills are government cameras used to take every right away from true Americans.

Sponsored by Mercedes. Fascism FTW.

 

[MickZagger]

I'm in the West Salem hills and it's starting to get windy...a little before 9 am. Considering what happened east of here about 2 years ago, it's pretty worrying that the conditions are almost the same. "Almost" is important thought because, at this point, there's no threat of thunderstorms and lightning.

if you head over to Bend on highway 22 right now, because of the B&B fire complex in 2003 and those wildfires of 2020, you see major fire damage along the road starting about 4 miles west of Mill City going all the way up to the Santiam Pass. That's 50 straight miles of fire damage.

In the Santiam Canyon communities and surrounding areas, there is a lot of home rebuilding on lots where houses burned. But there are also lessons learned: Trees have been cleared and the new homes (many much bigger and modern than the old ones) have cement-board siding and either tile, slate, or metal roofs. Nobody is even putting in shrubs....bare lots although that could change

I guess in a way you could say these fires were long over-due. Dumbass forest practices and mono-culture were a large part of the problem. Most of the fuel has been burnt now in many areas, but there is still lots of forest with the same issues. Sad thing is it takes at least a generation...decades...for the land to start looking healthy again, at least at the scale of a mature forest. If you get closer though, the natural reconstruction of the understory is underway and that's pretty interesting

We were staying at Black Butte Ranch when that happened in 2020 and originally planned to stay until Monday but was keeping up on the weather back home where we were going to get crazy winds in Portland-metro and decided to pack up Sunday. Drove through Detroit, Mill City and it was kind of eerie because of all the fires but people were still doing their thing.

Came home and was glued to the news because of the unusual weather and watching about how those towns were completely burned down. We passed thru less than 24 hours before and glad we made the decision we did.

Growing up I never remember this haze and bad air quality in Portland even though I always remember a lot of fires throughout the region.

 

[Shaboid]

It's a bit hazy in Olympia, but not near as bad as it was in Oregon.

 

[MickZagger]

The beginning of Cops they used to say “134th and Bush we got them at gun point. Coverage code 3”. Years later I bid my first route and delivered that area and it totally made sense.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Nice to finally get a little rain last night/today.

 

[BigGameDamian]

Farmers' Almanac Predicts an early winter and below normal temperatures. Saying that this winter is going to be ‘shake, shiver, and shovel.’