The smoke is so bad it looks like a heavy fog and ash falling. Eyes burn and its hard to breahe. Still no rain in sight and more hot weather predicted. I pulled the trailer out on Monday evening and drove all night to the dealer and dropped it off yesterday. I decided to drive at night while it was cooler to avoid overheating the truck going over the passes. Burned the breaks pretty bad on a couple of the long steep grades. We are now officially homeless. At least until the cabin is finished in a couple of weeks.
I'd take you and wife in till your cabin was done in a heartbeat if y'all lived closer!! Stay safe my friend. Is your wife still in town? Would feel better if there was more than one of you on your property.
Thank you for the kind offer. I know she'd take you up on it in a heartbeat. She could learn a lot about canning from you. She came home on Friday and we're up with the kids and grandkids now. We'll be heading back home tomorrow morning. Our place is rather isolated (by lower 48 standards) with only one road in or out. My biggest worries, beside fire, is if we get heavy rains this fall after a long hot dry summer is there could be a lot of land and rock slides.
I heard the gorge was on fire. Maybe it'll burn some of those dam wind generators on the hills above the gorge.....This is a dam that supplies power to our region, fire very close to the damn and high power transmission lines, the picture is of the Oregon side, Washington fire is also threatening the high power transmission lines from the dam.
This is the locks down river from the dam
That was exactly what the weather was like here during Irma! The windy part was probably more intense though...
Yep. It feels like snow here. It's blowing and clouds are starting to move in over the mountains from the west now. Not a drop of rain in 4 month's and now snow. Figures. We were invited to a BBQ tomorrow. May have to bring snowshoes.
I really don't like winter....
