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Offline Sourdough

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Dark Outside
« on: August 05, 2009, 07:52:51 AM »
Here it is 9:35 AM.  Sun has been up for about five to six hours, no clouds, and it's still dark.  Smoke is so thick sun can not get through.  Looks like it is about 3:AM out there.  I just heard a new fire is going near Chena Hot Springs, that's getting close.  Hot ashes falling outside, might have to look at packing up the irreplaceables and hitting the road.   2.5 million acres burned so far this year, with 79 active fires state wide.  With 24 of them in close proximity to Fairbanks.  Weather has been dry and hotter than normal, with no relief in sight.

The Fair opens Friday, it always rains the week of the fair.  So there is some relief in sight.  If we can just hold out till Friday.

Smokle is so thick I am having a hard time breathing, may have to go to one of the shelter buildings in town with filtered air.  Or start running around with an oxygen bottle.

And I am supposed to leave on a Caribou hunt Saturday.
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 08:13:34 AM »
I didn't realize that burning the constitution and bill of rights would cause so much smoke.
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2009, 08:37:18 AM »
Take care pardner, dont let the lungs vapor lock on ya, Seriously dont get in a situation that your lungs are playing catchup!
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2009, 10:53:30 AM »
Be safe buddy and let us know how you're doing when the smoke settles. Good luck and God bless.
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2009, 02:35:20 PM »
i recon i need to start watching some news program again... didn t know you folk were
having that kinda problem..hope it clears up ,,,or rains or what ever it is you need.. slim
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2009, 02:57:04 PM »
I'm with Slim Rem 7. What's going on oop thar? Eh? Did somebody's marshmallow roast get a little out of hand?
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2009, 07:16:51 PM »
I dropped in at the fire service today.  They showed me a map of the area where I have a cabin.  Lighting struck yesterday, and they flew it last night just before dark.  At that time it was 30 acres.  By morning it is over 1,000 acres.  I had a cabin right in the middle of the area.  This cabin sits right in the middle of a stand of White spruce, no fire break around it.  Seeing the maps of the fire area there is not much chance that the cabin survived.  I'll find out for sure sometime next week after the fire is out or we can fly over the area.

Smoke is so thick today that the buildings in Fairbanks are having to turn off their A/C units.  Our house is about 80 degrees inside right now.  We are having to keep the windows shut to keep out the smoke, and it is really heating up during the day.  Residential housing in Fairbanks does not have A/C.  We open the windows at night and cool the house down, then shut it up during the day and it stays cool.  With the smoke we are not ablt to open them up and cool them down at night, so they are sweltering inside now.  It's been this way for a week and no end in sight.
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2009, 12:34:01 AM »
It's odd that I haven't seen this on the news that I can recall.Need to call my sister in Palmer and see how she's doing.Good luck,Slow
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2009, 01:11:27 AM »
I wish I had words of wisdom. I don't.
I will pray.
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2009, 05:02:30 AM »
I hope your cabin made it, maybe the bear was in it!   :o

I Pray you all do ok with no loss of life!
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2009, 06:03:48 AM »
Sourdough; Did your house make it? Post your mailing address if you don't mind. If you are staying in town now PO Box will do. eddiegjr
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2009, 07:48:39 AM »
IT RAINED, IT RAINED!!!!  Woke up this morning to a nice shower coming down here in North Pole.  Still smoky, funny looking out at the rain and seeing smoke through the rain drops.  What we have is an isolated shower they call it at the weather service.  But it's washing the ash off stuff.  last night we had hot ash falling again.  Luckily the falling ash did not start a new fire on this side of the river.  Smoke was so thick last night we could only see about 200 to 300 yards.  The wife and I stopped at the grocery last night, and as we walked from the car to the front door we get a fine layer of ash on our shoulders and heads.  Everyone is wearing mask, even indoors.  Some places did not turn their A/C units off and that pulled the smoke and particulates inside the buildings.

So far we have not had to evacuate anything here in Fairbanks or North Pole.  But one subdivision about 70 miles south of us is currently under evacuation.  They have set up a shelter in the Town of Anderson school.  It's a big fire that is between them and fairbanks/North Pole.  That's the one that I believe has burned my cabin. 

I got concerned when the hot ashes were falling yesterday, afraid they might set off a fire in this area, but with the rain we had this morning that is no longer a problem.  My subdivision is surrounded by Black Spruce (Natures Torch).

Slowhanddd:  The Palmer, Wasillia, and Anchorage, area have received a lot of smoke I understand from fires North of them.  They are in no danger at this time from what the fire service is saying.  South Central (the area all the way from Cordova, over to Dillingham, and south of the Alaska Range) has been getting a lot of rain in the last few weeks.  Here in the interior the Alaska Range has been blocking the moisture from reaching us.  This little shower is the first we have had in five to six weeks.  Then it was only a little shower as well.  We have had the driest summer on record.

The fire Just North/East of us that had me ready to evacuate has been hit hard by fire crews and slowed down.  They are hitting it hard and hope to have it under control soon.
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2009, 10:07:30 AM »
Sourdough thanks for the info.Tried calling her this morning,but didn't catch her before she left for work.I'll try her again this evening if I don't go to sleep too early.Time difference of four hours,I think,kills me.She works at a bank there in Palmer.Don't know which one though.Thanks again,Slow
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2009, 05:33:07 PM »
SOURDOUGH. Still nothing on the news. Prayers sent friend, praying for rain. POWDERMAN.  :o :o
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2009, 07:13:32 PM »
Been raining off and on all day, this is good.  Predicting the same for tomorrow here in the Fairbanks area.  Even tho it is raining the smoke is still bad, in the unhealthy range.

The highway from Anchorage is closed because of the REX Creek fire.  Smoke is so bad drivers can not see the road.  The Fairbanks airport was closed yesterday, and no one knows when it might reopen.
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2009, 02:02:07 AM »
Still haven't seen or heard one thing about this on the news. Hope your cabin came out OK.
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2009, 07:34:26 AM »
It's simple, since we are geographically separated we are looked at as a colony, not a state.  Som,ething trivial like over 2 million acres of forest burning is not noteworthy. 

But let us kill a few wolves, or drill an oil well, and all heck breaks loose.
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2009, 07:56:33 AM »
Maybe all of you should have "mentioned" that Michael Jackson owned something in that area then every news crew around would have been covering it. Really sad. I hope it turns out OK for you.
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #18 on: August 07, 2009, 09:47:44 AM »
Sourdough, when I was up there in June I saw how dry it was then.  A lot of the state campgrounds we stayed at had the "no fire" warnings posted.  Beautiful country.  I hope the rains continue.  Good luck (& I hope them damn Kings start to return again next year).
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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #19 on: August 07, 2009, 10:01:51 AM »
It's sprinkling a bit today too.  This will help with the fire situation.  The area I live in is now out of danger, no more hot ashes falling in my woods.  That was scarry, as dry as we have been and hot ash coming down.

As for the kings, I don't expect them to return.  The commercial fishing boats are taking too many as by-catch out in the ocean.  They seperate them out from the Pollick, at which point they die, then they dump them overboard.  Com fish owns the Fish Board, and the politicians up here.  The only negative thing I have to say about Sarah Palin, is that she sided with Com Fish, Todd is a commercial Fisherman.

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Re: Dark Outside
« Reply #20 on: August 07, 2009, 11:41:41 AM »
Quote from: Sourdough on August 07, 2009, 10:01:51 AM
It's sprinkling a bit today too.  This will help with the fire situation.  The area I live in is now out of danger, no more hot ashes falling in my woods.  That was scarry, as dry as we have been and hot ash coming down.

As for the kings, I don't expect them to return.  The commercial fishing boats are taking too many as by-catch out in the ocean.  They seperate them out from the Pollick, at which point they die, then they dump them overboard.  Com fish owns the Fish Board, and the politicians up here.  The only negative thing I have to say about Sarah Palin, is that she sided with Com Fish, Todd is a commercial Fisherman.



Glad to hear your getting a break! We are having similar situations here in sw Oregon. We have fires still going about 30 miles east of me in the Cascades. Chopper is going over my house as I type this.Headed for water I suppose. We do have a small break in the weather, and some sprinkles. Not as much smoke in the air anyway! I'll keep my fingers crossed, your cabin is still standing.
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