NFR New wildfires popping up on a daily basis!
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We have been putting simple, cheap air filters made from box fans and furnace filters throughout our home when the smoke gets bad. I just bought a new box of 20X20 furnace filters for this season.
Instructions here:
How to make a box fan filter to clean indoor air of smoke | Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics and Environment https://share.google/rKLdbdgJFqLnrPAGl
Instructions here:
How to make a box fan filter to clean indoor air of smoke | Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics and Environment https://share.google/rKLdbdgJFqLnrPAGl
Soap Lake is on a heater. As if the Garred Road fire wasn't enough.
kpq.com
Alleged DUI Driver Rolls Vehicle, Sparks 1,300-Acre Wildfire Near Soap Lake
A Grant County man has injuries and is facing charges after allegedly rolling his vehicle and sparking a wildfire near Soap Lake on Tuesday morning.
kpq.com
You forgot to add: "and an increasing number of fucking idiots"
Coach Potter
Life of the Party
The latest round we had was from arson.
The 4th holiday is a love/hate thing for me. Awesome holiday with great associated memories, but the dread of a potential fireworks caused fire weighs heavy on my mind in our dry and continually windy location. One stupid kid and a smoke bomb changed the Gorge for my lifetime. Eagle Creek Fire September 2017.
Might want to study the true research on the correlation between snow pack and wildfires. It is easy to find for yourself. The relationship between snow pack and wildfires is not as strongly correlated as the hype media would like us to believe.
I have looked at year to year numbers of acres burned in the PNW. Again easy to find. Very interesting. Some years with low acreage burned still seemed to still have a very high amount of media coverage. Hmmm?
Flymph
Life of the Party
Here's something even easier to find: Just plug in "relationship of low snow pack to wildfires" and see what you come up with. I don't need media coverage to tell me that the town I live in has been on all levels of evacuation. A couple of years ago I watched the entire hillsides right outside of my town burn right down to local orchards. Maybe you should send your findings to the people in Winthrop right now who have been evacuated. Sorry, but those of us who have lived this don't take your "some years" and your personal dislike for the media very serious.
Increased Fire Severity: Research published by "Western Colorado Univ" indicates that low snow water content (the actual amount of water stored in the snow) directly correlates with burn severity. Dry forests experience higher tree mortality, deeper burns, and a higher liklihood of permanent forest loss. This is not media hype, it's common sense.
Pink Nighty
Legend
It's a conspiracy, see! Everyone knows you need LIQUID WATER to fight fires. Snow is FROZEN water, essentially an accelerant. Might as well be gasoline in the hills with a good snow pack.
I heard it's all the damn wind farms casuing the fires. Check the history! Wind farms go up, more wildfires!
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I like this theory. I’m on board. But I’d like to offer one important amendment:
It’s not just the additional wind farms. It’s that the wind farms are killing all the “birds.”
And as everyone knows, birds aren’t real. They were replaced by the American government with sophisticated surveillance drones decades ago. So now these so-called “birds” are being taken out by giant death windmills.
And what happens when a “bird” — again, spy drone — gets wiped out of the sky by a 300-foot spinning government boomerang?
It comes crashing to the ground in a shower of sparks.
Which then starts… you guessed it… a wildfire.
Brian in OR.
Life of the Party
That's what happens when you get a "bird" strike.
For the majority of my life I seldom had to plan fishing trips or family vacations around wildfires or prevailing wildfire smoke direction. For the past 10 or 12 years, it's become an almost annual part of the planning process. I think the times, they are a changin'.
Agreed. My last two planned golden trout trips have been derailed by fires. Fingers crossed for this year.
We run a heavy duty Austin air purifier with medical grade HEPA filter year around, sits in our centrally located LR which has 17' ceilings, does wonders for indoor air quality.
Fairly amazed not a single fire burning in Oregon at this time. Chances we remain fire free by the end of July 4th weekend with the idiots and their fireworks..likely zero.
Fairly amazed not a single fire burning in Oregon at this time. Chances we remain fire free by the end of July 4th weekend with the idiots and their fireworks..likely zero.