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I was up north riding out of Harry Osborne trailhead and the smoke from the newhalem fire was making things a little hazy. Then there was a rumor that darrington was on fire. Luckily that turned out to be false. Scarey.[/QUOTE]
I’m not sure if we’re talking about the same one but there actually is a fire burning up that way. It was up in uninhabited and inaccessible terrain so last I heard they were just letting it burn until resources from the other fires feed up.
there are some fires on this side of the crest.
Most recent is Jumbo Mt south of darrington
A complex Just north of Glacier Peak
and around Newhalem ( causing city Light to shut down a power house
these may be small enough that the rain forecast will help
hikers reporting still finding people in the woods using campfires
what a bunch of boneheads
Last I heard all hiking trails north of HWY 2 are closed
I live in south western BC and the smoke comes and goes. Some days it is quite thick, and smells smokey. I have not personally had any issues with it, but I do try to avoid working the horses when the air quality is at its worst. We are all very thankful for the rain this weekend.
ETA: maybe I should change my posted location, since I am no longer living in the land of external rain :lol:
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I live in south western BC and the smoke comes and goes. Some days it is quite thick, and smells smokey. I have not personally had any issues with it, but I do try to avoid working the horses when the air quality is at its worst. We are all very thankful for the rain this weekend.
ETA: maybe I should change my posted location, since I am no longer living in the land of external rain :lol:[/QUOTE]
If you do, I’ll quit saying I’m from the “wetside” of Washington.
So contrary to the usual interest in SUNNY weather around here – my friends and I are lamenting on Facebook that the rains haven’t really materialized. It was sunny with blue sky and puffy clouds mid-day… what’s up with that? THAT isn’t going to help anyone! But clouds have rolled back in so I’m optimistic. The tarp over my hay (which I just put on last night – the hay has been living naked!) was wet and even had a few puddles when I went out this morning but the paddocks are still dusty and dry. So whatever arrived last night or early this morning was minimal. Don’t MAKE me do the naked ceremonial raindance, no one wants that.
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So contrary to the usual interest in SUNNY weather around here – my friends and I are lamenting on Facebook that the rains haven’t really materialized. It was sunny with blue sky and puffy clouds mid-day… what’s up with that? THAT isn’t going to help anyone! But clouds have rolled back in so I’m optimistic. The tarp over my hay (which I just put on last night – the hay has been living naked!) was wet and even had a few puddles when I went out this morning but the paddocks are still dusty and dry. So whatever arrived last night or early this morning was minimal. Don’t MAKE me do the naked ceremonial raindance, no one wants that.[/QUOTE]
ROFLMAO - I’m with ya on that one.
A link about donating for the animal victims.
Oh, we are doing a rain dance like crazy–hoping the weather service is correct on the incoming storm! The Portland area has received .25 inch of rain since June 6. Freakishly dry, brown and dusty. We went hiking and the ferns are dying! Trees are brown leaved, underbrush crunchy, grass is non-existent. I’m worried about wildlife this winter, it’s going to be brutal with so little forage. The deer are eating the leaves off my pumpkins!
There was just a fire up the river from us in Cascade Locks, OR–pigeon caused a short and poof! wildfire.
It’s sprinkling in the Tacoma area, but nothing enough to help at the moment. Truly hoping the east side of the mountains gets some moisture.
i know what you mean about the ferns Hiking in the lowlands of Puget Sound in early July and the ferns are dead and the moss crunches
this is not normal
But Today is gloriously wet. Some of the fire area should get some rain, but their normal environment is that of dry, so it remains to be seen how much of this makes it over the mountains. It will help with the fires up in Newhalem and on this side of the crest
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2015/08/major-autumn-storm-approaching-in-summer.html
In truth,however, the large eastside fires will burn until most of the area gets their snow
that is, if it decides to snow this year. Otherwise October / November rain.
The current weather front and that of another typhoon remnant will be welcome. We had August weather in June I guess we can accept November weather in August
E. WA here - super thick, heavy, smelly smoke this morning. But it’s RAINING!!! GLORIOUS RAIN!
Devastation in E. OR 
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I’m in NE Oregon. It has been terrible for at least a month. The place I board at took in about 7 horses and I think some goats. The bo is a very kind and generous woman.
My horse has been handling the smoke better than me (thank goodness!). I’ve been busy with work so haven’t ridden him and I actually don’t think I would even if I had the time. It’s just nasty with the heat, dry, dust chaff from wheat harvest, and the smoke. Usually I have great views of the Blues wherever I am, but I haven’t seen the mountains since the Walla Walla fire started. Hope everybody else is doing okay. I think there is another cother near Boardman. Keeping my fingers crossed that all our critters get through this.[/QUOTE]
Gestalt I’m fairly close to you, over outside of La Grande.
It’s been horrible here. The nearest fire (which is now contained) was only 20 miles from here. It was really scary watching people I know struggle to evacuate their homes and try to moe livestock. There are so many fires burning in E. OR right now that it’s hard to keep track of them all. There are fires around John Day and Baker, and also in Wallowa county. I-84 was closed multiple times either in the month because of fires. There is pretty much a fire on all sides of us (but nothing dangerously close at the moment) So much property has been lost
I’ve seen posts on FB about taking donations of hay to the John Day area. Locally, we’ve also had business collecting food and home supplies for people that lost their homes due to the fires. There have also been a lot people donating supplies to the fire camps.
So far we haven’t gotten any rain, but we have a wind advisory in place for this weekend. It’s just blowing more smoke in The smoke has been so thick here that visibility is less than a mile some days.
Our horses are having a hell of a time between all the dust and the smoke. I’l trying to put clean fly masks on them everyday for their eyes, but there is not much I can do about them breathing in the smoke.
This time of year I keep the truck and trailer hooked up, stocked up, and ready to go. We’ve done a lot to protect our house from forest fires, but we live up in the timber so there is still no guarantee. It’s scary. I really can’t wait for fire season to be over.
Pouring rain here today. We have had only a couple of times with smoke bad enough to effect us. There was a fire on the Toandos Peninsula a few weeks ago and there has been a smoldering fire in the Olympic Forest since May. It is in an uninhabited area and is not going to totally go out until the rain happens. Hopefully at least that one got rained on, I can only pray for the others, some really drastic videos out there with cattle stuck against fences, fire about a mile away enough so you could feel the heat and people running around the field trying to save them. Horrifying.
I think this video was of the Soda fire. It was such a strong fire, and provided some really unbelievable fire behavior. It certainly ruled our world here for days and days.
Sheilah
It has been very hazy here all day, the sun hardly shining thru the haze, that they say is smoke from the Washington State fires.
I wonder who else is getting those, way down here?
My good friend (Rainier on here) lives in Winthrop and for the second year in a row they had to evacuate. She evacuated with the horses from the barn where she boards her OTTB, while her parents who live in the same subdivision evacuated to Seattle with her dogs and cat.
NPR did a story on the ranch’s evac: http://nwpr.org/post/evacuating-ranch-how-15-horses-and-their-people-escaped-raging-fire
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