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2 Years Ago Today

Scovie

Scovie

The Carlton Complex Fire was spawned.
 
All of these pictures were taken from my house. I didn't go anywhere, staying busy keeping the generators going and moving water lines to keep everything wet. Holy shit it's been kind of solum in the valley lately. And on August 17th, it will be the 1 year anniversary of the day we lost 3 firefighters who lost their lives trying to stop the Twisp River fire from blowing up. This time of year is skitchy for everyone now.
 
 
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looks like a volcano going off.
wow is that an md11 water bomber?

ive never seen such a thing. i wonder how many gallons it can deliver per hour?
 
You still have that close up pic of the plane close to the hill?
 
Damn, that sucks. I hope no fires break out this year. It's so damn dry across most of the US. Everything is crispy dry here. Lightning is usually the culprit around here. We've had a few fires on the interstate due to cigarettes.

Keeping my fingers crossed it stays smoke free.
 
Thanks boss. This year has been pretty dang good. Not so dry and definitely not as hot. Windy tho. One of these the picture you were thinking of?
 
QQ It's a DC-10 Air Tanker. There were 3 of them going all day long for 10 days. The house in the picture that you see the tanker surrounding (boxed in with 4 drops total), I did that guys tile work. He sells all of the food to Subway restaurants and 4 Air-force bases around the world. Each retardant drop cost him $30,000. Yeah, thirty grand. The small helicopter has a 100 gallon bag and the big Chinook has a 175-200 gallons of water.
 
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May the Methow be free of flames this year!! :cheers:

How the frick did you like this post at the same instant I posted it ya friggen wierdo?  :rofl:  Oh yea...Gemini telepathy...
 
hogleg said:
How the frick did you like this post at the same instant I posted it ya friggen wierdo?  :rofl:  Oh yea...Gemini telepathy...
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Have you ever seen Grant and Scovie in the same place at the same time? No? Hmmmmmm. lol
 
30 grand each? lol wow.

was this fire a super sudden thing or something?

i would think you could put the same retardant down with a tanker truck or something... kinda like how they do hydromulching.
and id totally install like a friggen 100 gpm well lol.
 
queequeg152 said:
was this fire a super sudden thing or something? 106º F, 15% HUMIDITY, 35 MPH WIND. SO YEAH, IT "SUDDENLY" BLEW THE f**k UP.
 
GOOGLE: "CARLTON COMPLEX FIRE"

i would think you could put the same retardant down with a tanker truck or something...YEAH, NO. HIS DRIVEWAY IS 1.5 MILES LONG, GRAVEL WITH SWITCHBACKS. LOOK AT THE TERRAIN UP CLOSE. AND I KID YOU NOT, THE TREES YOU SEE ARE 150 FEET TALL. THAT HOUSE IS 5000 SQUARE FEET. NO TRUCK WOULD GO THERE NO MATTER HOW MUCH $$. HE HAS SO MUCH MONEY, HE MONOPOLIZED THE FIREFIGHTING EFFORTS THAT ENDED UP BEING THE COSTLIEST FIRE IN OUR STATES HISTORY. $90,000,000 (IS THAT 90 MILLION?)
 
kinda like how they do hydromulching.
and id totally install like a friggen 100 gpm well lol. HA-HA YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF THE SCALE OF THIS FIRE. THAT'S LIKE PISSING IN THE OCEAN AND THINKING YOU'RE GONNA CHANGE THE TIDE.
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Carlton complex fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_Complex_Fire
 
These pics are from a wildfire called the Carlton Complex.  I don't know all the details, but basically, lightening storm came through and ignited several fires in various places up and down the valley.  Fire crews were flying over, radio chatter to the effect of "we can have crews on site within the hour, full suppression"  DNR said to "Stand Down".  WTFH????? Yep, they had to stand down and let 'em burn.....
 
QQ~ The fires smoldered for 4 1/2 days until the wind blew them all up and created the massive fire storm that races down the valley at something like 3 miles per minute.  No loss of human life in that fire, thank God.  but lots of animals and property. 
 
I was at the FM today, people were talking about the last 2 years.   
edit- the initial storm came through on Monday, we watched the plumes until Thursday afternoon until all hell broke loose. 

the next year was the Signal Hill fire and right after that.....the Twisp River fire that killed 3 firefighters....
 
Every region has their weather and climate related catastrophes.  Oso's land slide was just across the pass from us.  I know we aren't the only ones who've suffered losses.  Hell, all the shootings have taken more lives than what we have dealt with.  We have to keep in perspective and be grateful that as bad as it was, it wasn't worse.  Is that a bad way to look at it?  I dunno~  After the last 2 years I'm totally freaked out to park a vehicle off the road in dry grass, or think about going target shooting up in the woods (where it is OK to target shoot.....just sayin' ~) 
 
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