Khunajawdge
Toto El Mundo!
Anybody live near this thing? Looks like it roasted quite a bit of forested property!
Sorry to see this happen to my native state.
Sorry to see this happen to my native state.
Fire near Lake Tahoe?
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I am in Carson City, NV. We are not to far away, man-o-man does the smoke suck the last couple of days.
I met a guy on a FJR a few weeks back who lived in the area where the homes burned. I don't think he ever posted here after I told him about the site. I hope all is well with him.
I met a guy on a FJR a few weeks back who lived in the area where the homes burned. I don't think he ever posted here after I told him about the site. I hope all is well with him.
Khunajawdge
Toto El Mundo!
Yeah, I hope he's OK also! Gotta keep track of our "neighbors" if we want to ride their roads.
Keep cool!
Santa Fe Dreamin'
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[SIZE=14pt]Several of us just returned from a ride that touched the far south end of that area.[/SIZE]
We saw lots of fire trucks and air drops. We didn't realize at the time how bad it was. Glad we didn't venture any further north!
We saw lots of fire trucks and air drops. We didn't realize at the time how bad it was. Glad we didn't venture any further north!
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Two years ago, I would have been evacuated from where I was living, and my office 1/4 mile from there would also have been evacuated -- both from when the fire jumped Hwy 89 a couple days ago, and both at the far extremes of the evacuation area at the entrance to Tahoe Keys.
I know someone with 3 BMWs that, as of the update about 3 hours ago would still be under mandatory evacuation but house and garage safe, and another couple whose house I HOPE was spared, think was, but really feared for in the first day or two. He had some very fine Taylor guitars in the closet of one room.
This was along a route I routinely took to go over 50 or to 88 -- lesser known route around the congestion of Hwy50/89 South from the Wye. Rode that a LOT of times and it saddens me to imagine so beautiful a residential setting devastated and so changed now. Knowing the area so well, it's easy to see how this could happen with the right combination of factors -- a windy day, tinder dry forest from a drought year, and homes and trees spaced in such a way that you could easily see a fire getting swept through the forest by winds, and taking everything in its path.
I know someone with 3 BMWs that, as of the update about 3 hours ago would still be under mandatory evacuation but house and garage safe, and another couple whose house I HOPE was spared, think was, but really feared for in the first day or two. He had some very fine Taylor guitars in the closet of one room.
This was along a route I routinely took to go over 50 or to 88 -- lesser known route around the congestion of Hwy50/89 South from the Wye. Rode that a LOT of times and it saddens me to imagine so beautiful a residential setting devastated and so changed now. Knowing the area so well, it's easy to see how this could happen with the right combination of factors -- a windy day, tinder dry forest from a drought year, and homes and trees spaced in such a way that you could easily see a fire getting swept through the forest by winds, and taking everything in its path.
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