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Offline Dand

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When will this weather pattern change?
« on: August 04, 2009, 10:00:12 PM »
Dang, out here in Bristol Bay its pouring buckets and blowing hard often. The creek in my back yard came up 18 inches in a couple days. Moss is growing behind my ears. The Kenai Pen has been mighty wet too.

While the interior is drier than a potato chip and burning up. Wish we could make a trade a few days and get balanced out. Interior folks take heart.  Maybe there will be some good moose food in 3-4 years. Hope no one is suffering damage.

My only hope is it will break by moose season and maybe I can hunt in a little dry weather for the first time in years.  Well at least I have to hope.

Even ordered up a new screen tent with roll down wind flaps so our gear might stay dry compared to last year. Haven't decided if I'll try to heat it. Its the Eureka Northern Breeze. Wish it was white or yellow instead of blue.  Don't need blue if you have to camp in a week of rain.  But it got good reviews and only weighs 25 lbs so shouldn't weigh down the Lund too bad.

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Re: When will this weather pattern change?
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 07:40:45 PM »
Send us all the rain you can spare, and all the wind to blow out the smoke.  Fairbanks cannot see the sun.
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Re: When will this weather pattern change?
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2009, 01:21:04 AM »
I can't do anything about the weather but HAVE prayed.
Tell me about the Lund.
We had one dealer in houston---years ago---it seemed (the ones he had) too be a well built boat. His were fiberglass, I have seen some of the aluminium.
Please forgive me for hi-jacking the conversation.
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Re: When will this weather pattern change?
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2009, 06:23:04 AM »
Sourdough; You know about your house yet? Let us know "round the pot bellied stove". Can you guys legally have controlled burns when you arn't in "fire conditions" or any certain time of year? Down where I live in MS in the deciduous hardwoods of the south it is hard to get a good burn except in the most fire hazzard times. Good Luck, eddie
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Re: When will this weather pattern change?
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2009, 03:20:07 PM »
When we aren't in fire conditions??   hahahaha.  The only time we aren't in fire conditions is when everything is covered in snow in a deep freeze.  If it is warm enough for a controlled burn, it is warm enough for a full out forest fire. 

The main problem we have in Alaska is the forest is very dense here.  Even if you were to have a controlled burn, you wouldn't get rid of the problem, there isn't just underbrush that is catching, then the forest overhead lights up.  From bottom to top there are different types of trees taking up most of the space. 

When I went to college in Arizona, the controlled burns there blew me away, you had the pine trees with branches way up high, and the underbrush and grass all gone underneath.  I wish it was like that up here when I hunt, a bushwhack packout would be no problem!! 

The fact is that we don't really have "dry brush" underneath like other places.  The trees, especially spruce trees, give most of the tinder for the fires.  I am a proponent of selective cutting, ESPECIALLY in big beetle areas, but getting the gov to spend money on that is a different story.....
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Re: When will this weather pattern change?
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2009, 12:49:24 PM »
http://inciweb.org/state/2/

Link to Alaska fires
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must be changin' a little now
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2009, 11:03:50 PM »
Saw this on the KTUU website this evening:
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10888690
by Annie Davis
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Unseasonably cold temperatures and precipitation helped crews gain ground on the Crazy Mountain Complex fire near Circle.

Snow was reported in the fire area at higher elevations. The fire stands at 450,000 acres along the Steese Highway. The village of Circle is still threatened.

The Hard Luck Creek fire, about 20 miles outside Fairbanks, is now 10 percent contained, but is still threatening homes.

And the Railbelt Complex fire grew only 65 acres Monday night. It stands at 632,000 acres, about 12 miles north of Nenana. Numerous structures are threatened.
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While here in Dillingham we have had 4 days in a row of bright sunny, even hot weather by our standards. Potato vines shot up a few inches.  We had a lot of smoke on Saturday and Sunday.

That's Alaska; veering from one extreme to the other.

Corb: controlled burns have been done over near the Quartz Cr. campground and a few other places. But didn't one get out of hand near Moose Pass a while back and make a mess? Maybe the govt is afraid to do that stuff again.

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