Any Du folks from Clear Lake/Lake County Ca????? Need info on the fires.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Mr. Dixie's brother lives in Clear Lake Oaks, in a small valley up there, and we have not heard from him today.
He told us there were fires on all four sides, some not close yet, but that was yesterday. He said it looks like a nuclear blast hit, nothing but ash falling
and the sun is blotted out.

Breathing has got to be a problem, and he is no spring chicken.

[onecaliberal]

1. They had an emergency evacuation early this morning.

I'm about 30 miles from the Willow fire.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Are YOU gonna be ok?

[onecaliberal]

4. Yes. Although I can see the glow of the fire at night.

It's really dry from the drought, there hasn't been fires there in years. Couple that with the terrain. They've not been able to get more than 30% containment in 4 days. It's terrible

[NV Whino]

3. I'm in the Napa Valley

Very high, smoky overcast all day today. Smoke didn't settle in the valley as it usually does. Check out the CalFire info here.
http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. That's helpful...thanks.

I passed it on to Mr. Dixie since he knows the area so much better than I do.

(we email each other in the house....lol)

[Brother Buzz]

5. Evacuation areas are east of Highway 53 from Lower Lake to Highway 20 (31 July 31, 5:12 PM)

Clear Lake Oaks is north and west of the fire. Winds appear to be blowing the smoke (and fire) to the south and east.

[NV Whino]

6. Here's a screen shot of the smoke

At least I hope it is. Dealing with Photobucket on an iPad is problematic at best.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Seems the whole West Coast is burning.

That smoke is gonna be problematic for some people.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. From Inciweb, forget inciweb, This is a CAL FIRE, well no pun, FIRE.

Yeah, they get that touchy, as to who "owns it." And that means who releases info.

It explains why it was not updated at usual time.

Hope all is well with you and yours.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. I found him on Google Earth

He lives on Indian Hill Road off highway 221, between Wolf Creek and long Valley Creek, SW some miles from the Indian Valley Resevoir.
Waaaay out in the boonies, I know that much.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. That is both good and bad

evacuation can be harder, and people in the back country, at least locally... just refuse to leave.

[locks]

12. Huff Post Blog has a long article

titled "Why we all need to learn the word Anthropogenic" on what the Paradise fire burning in Olympic National Park means. The CA fires are so terrible but fire in our only rainforest seems almost apocalyptic. What have we done to our beautiful blue home?

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. New fire of 150 acres somewhere in Mason Co..

Shelton is in that county.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. You might want to look up the famous Forks Fire in the Olympics...

I was a little kid when my parents had to drive us out of the fire area back then.
It was HUGE and made history.

[calikid]

13. I'm about twenty miles to the East, there's ash all over the yard.

This afternoon around 2, I could see the smoke that rose to about 20,000 feet. The news says the fire is about 18,000 acres (three hours ago) from 8k this a.m.