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Date: August 18, 2021 at 16:32:47
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Well, lordy be, it looks like folks around Lake Almanor can go home! |
URL: Almanor residents can go home; order reduced to a warning |
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At least for the time being, and through a Western or Southern approach.
Fun when the local rag is good for more than just birth and death notices.. And although I left my hometown (Westwood - a few miles East of Lake Almanor) a lifetime ago, I do stay in touch. Though those I would rely upon for the 'real' skinny are still evacuated, a combination of the National Fire Situational Awareness Map..
https://maps.nwcg.gov..
And the GOES-West Pacific Southwest Sector Satellite view..
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov..
Along with the good ol' Plumas News..
http://www.plumasnews.com
And of course commentary by Zeke Lunder...
https://the-lookout.org
And an intimate knowledge of the area, have been enough to create the feeling of staying in touch..
Unfortunately, although the lake area is being allowed to repopulate, Westwood isn't. Because it could still be in short order screwed with a Western push of that branch of the fire (Hamilton Mountain area) that's been inching its way towards Susanville. Especially now with the wind having changed to the West Southwest..
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Date: August 19, 2021 at 20:20:38
From: sheila, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Well, lordy be, it looks like folks around Lake Almanor can go... |
URL: https://forums.wildfireintel.org/t/ca-btu-dixie/17564?page=87 |
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thanks for posting that ao. My x daughter in law, her mom lived in Westwood some years ago so I try to keep them updated. I read Lunder's blog twice a day, read his very descriptive post about the people of Westwood last night, so insightful.
I wonder if repopulating the lake is too early? Guess we wait and see.
I go to all the same sites you posted, especially the satellite loop to see where the smoke is headed and how the fires plume up in the afternoon winds. Been pretty awful at times to see those huge plumes go bonkers like they did a few days ago.
I also keep up with the wildfireintel.org forum posts mostly from the firemen themselves, always good for latest info.
My daughter's family and friends have vacationed in Lake Almanor for many years so they are keeping up with info too. They didn't go this year.
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Date: August 20, 2021 at 14:26:46
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Well, lordy be, it looks like folks around Lake Almanor can go... |
URL: alertwildfire.org |
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It’s amazing how much of my childhood the Dixie fire has burnt through. From where it started down on the Feather river (there are some great swimming holes on that stretch of the river), which was the road to the Avalon, the Matrix, the streets of the Haight, and the park, to all the memories, the first fish caught, mountain climbed, girl kissed. That fire burnt for over a week on the one spot, just below Keddie Ridge, Hidden and Dear lakes, that holds so many of my fondest memories of my youth. And then simultaneously, the Monument Fire over on 299, which became the road to my emancipation, as if the tour through all those memories is in some way liberating. Realizing I’ve let them, or at least some of the emotions that have clung to them, go.
I too look through that GOES-West satellite a bunch. not only of the Pacific Southwest but all over. It’s my main view of where I am in Hawaii as well. I love that view. It’s clear enough to allow one to imagine being up there, looking down on the Earth.
As to getting folks back into their homes, I suspect the pressure is vast to let them in sooner than later. And the decision takes into account all sorts of info that’s impossible to assess from afar. The one area that gave me pause when they lifted the evacuation order is that branch to the West that looks like it could engulf the highway 32 and 36 intersection. But the weather seems to have conspired to suppress the fire overall in the last 24hours, a factor I am sure the planners had in their considerations.
It certainly isn’t like people can just come home and go back to their lives. I imagine it’s more like going to work, getting on with putting things back to rights. And being in constant vigil, with the threat of more fire palpable. The Pumas News had an human interest story about a couple going back to their place in the East zone…
https://www.plumasnews.com/our-second-week/
That makes it sound like a lot of work is ahead of everyone, before they get back to anything other than the task at hand.
The one URL I should have added to my original list, and a great one if you know the views available, is the alertwildfire.org site. You can bounce around from there and see webcams of forests throughout the western US. This link is facing East from Dyer Mountain, looking, when the smoke clears, at the front that has been threatening Westwood from the East..
alertwildfire.org http://www.alertwildfire.org/shastamodoc/index.html?camera=Axis-DyerMtn1&v=fd40729
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Date: August 21, 2021 at 13:11:23
From: sheila, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Well, lordy be, it looks like folks around Lake Almanor can go... |
URL: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7690/ |
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thanks for that story from the Greenville woman, tears swelled in my eyes knowing empathically how awful it must be for her and everyone there. Greenville is still news with several stories from folks who are ready to build like the general store person, etc. Just read that from the Guardian.UK news site.
I certainly understand your having to let go of those memories. Last year, all of the campgrounds, hiking places we loved so much burned completely down. So much beauty just went poof overnight!
I've been to the alertwildfire site numerous times but not being familiar with some of the areas, it's difficult for me to use. I also use the GOES 17 satellite global maps, Pacific southwest being my go to site. Just hope that satellite holds up for a bit longer, they do have problems on and off.
And the wildlife, also the effects on climate from the burning of so many millions of trees. Found this on the Inciweb site for the Dixie fire.
Commercial timber ownerships: Sierra Pacific Industries, W.M. Beaty and Associates, Collins Pine. An estimated $1 Billion dollars of timber has already been destroyed with an additional $1 Billion still threatened. Total cumulative private timber loss -260,724 acres. Substantial losses of private and public timberlands have released decades of sequestered carbon, releasing it into the
atmosphere with
uncalculatable impacts
to greenhouse gas
accumulations.
Waterways: Philbrook Lake (PG&E, LNF), North Fork of the Feather River (PG&E, PNF), Silver Lake (Drinking water, PNF), Thompson Lake (Drinking water, PNF), Butte Creek (T&E species: chinook and steelhead, PNF), Deer Creek (T&E species:
chinook and steelhead), Oliver Lake (T&E species: Sierra-Nevada Yellow-legged Frog, LNF), Gold Lake (T&E species: Sierra-Nevada
Yellow-legged frog, (PNF), Rock Lake
T&E species:
Sierra-Nevada Yellow-legged frogs, (PNF)
Additional T&E species (not listed above): California Spotted Owl, Valley Elderberry Beetle, Shasta Crayfish, Cascades frog, California Red-Legged
Frog, Bald Eagle, Golden
Eagle, Grey wolf,
Fisher, California wolverine, and Sierra
Nevada red fox.
Continuation of Box 39:
East Zone - Additional resources ordered to staff the Genesee Valley region to assist resources actively engaged in structure protection and due to imminent threat to life and property from a spot fire on Grizzly Ridge to Taylorsville, Quincy, and surrounding communities.
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