Tis the season
dpmule
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Here in the inter mountain west of South East Idaho and Western Wyoming, we have had until now a smoke free summer.
A fire blew up two days ago just West of Salmon Idaho and is 3,600 + acres and growing, a desert fire near Bliss Idaho blew up yesterday and is 8,000+ acres this morning. Guess we will be seeing, smelling, tasting smoke until snow now.
Mountains are lush from the wet spring and heavy late April, early May snows, but the storm that caused the Yellowstone flood ate a lot of high country snow and now the high country is drying rapidly leaving conditions ripe for fire and also drastically reducing our irrigation water. Our canal company put us on water ration starting tomorrow @ 06:00, 5 days of water and 9 days off. Hope my 2nd crop of hay don’t burn up.
Mule
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Prayers for the firefighters, the land and the occupants. We had a touchy situation last week. Semi had a bare rim on his trailer and was blowing sparks. No rain here in 5 weeks left the side of the road a tinderbox.
Resident along the highway spotted the little fires and posted a call out for help on Facebook. Fire department was on its way but everyone in the area responded with buckets and containers of water.
A 20 mile stretch of roadside fires was put out by neighbors, friends and firemen. A crisis was averted. The entire county might have been gone if not for good rural folks helping each other.
Hoping it don't get too bad for you folks. It is totally amazing how fast the west can go from snow drifts to tinder dry.
I would have thought you might've had a whiff from Yosemite a burning.
smokin us out over here,,,
Floods of that magnitude are unusual.
fires here are like road construction, a summertime occurrence. You never where it’s going to be, how long it will last, but will end when it snows.
Mule
The Moose fire is over 20k acres and growing, so unless big shift in wind direction, you have a front row seat for the smoke from it for quite awhile yet.
Mule
You flew right over my house when landing at the airport. Bozeman/Belgrade
Sounds like they lost a couple firefighters in a helicopter crash on the Salmon River while fighting the Moose Fire.
Damn it.
Very sad.
Some folks we know that live between Carmen and North Fork have been evacuated, conditions are ripe for this one to get considerably bigger, it’s 28k + acres now.
Mule
good luck