I was just wondering whether any of you guys are experiencing this wildfire situation.. I hope not.

 

When the fires started a few weeks back ,we had one in the east end of the county(about 20 miles from here).It did no structure damage.We got some smoke from it ,but now get smoke from other fires north of us.We live about 40 miles from Yosemite and they have some there. At this point we are good.It should prove a long smokey summer.

 

As we know most of the fires are in the northern sections of California. I see the news every night and really feel for those residents and the fire fighters. I live in So. Cal. and can remember last fall, that was second time in like 5 years the mountains burned. One of the guys I've gotten truck parts from lost a 56 big window and other stuff on one of his lots in Waterman Canyon. I see these horrific fires and wonder why the goverment doesn't attempt to "seed the clouds" to induce rain ?

 

We've had a few smokey in Sacramento. Stay indoors warnings.

 

We folks in San Diego have had our Fire Quota for the next 20 years I hope.

It's a scary mess and we know what they are going through. Hope everyone is OK.

 

Nothing to speak of in So Cal, but we did have rain roll in on Saturday night.

 

Cough cough. I'm sorry. I couldn't see the question.
Sacramento

 

Looking at the satellite pics last week the smoke was moving straight south and right over us here in the SF south bay. Seems to be a lot less smokey this week; not so red when the sun rises and sets. I heard on the news there are only 288 fires; down from the 1400 two weeks ago!

 

We had our fire at the end of April near Pasadena. Smoke city for a day or two here. SIL had to evac.

All this is the bad news. The good news is when Sept/Oct rolls around and things are REALLY dry, and we get the winds working it, there won't be much to burn.

Mexico lets the small ones burn in May & June. Of course, they don't have McMansions in the woods or brush country demanding heroic efforts to save them, but what results is lots of firebreaks when the worst of the season hits in Sept/Oct. So, one gets started, it hits the already burned area and that's it.

If you put all the little ones out, you create a situation where you finally build to one you can't stop, and that's what happens in Ca. & elsewhere where man has figured out he is smarter than nature.

 

True about the way fire prevention over the last 100 years has pretty much made the west (not just California) a major tinder box. It looks like that policy is changing though as we are learning the hard way that it makes for an explosive mix of dry fuel and not enough people and equipment to put all the fires out. Hopefully, we'll find the balance with nature and our desire to live in the woods.

 

Nah, we thankfully don't have enough to burn where I live to cause a MAJOR fire, but the low humidity and wind could cause some serious issues anyways. Living in a rural area of "town" isn't such a good thing though.