Orange skies and smoke and ash rolling in to suburb of Portland, OR right now. A few fires west of us at Hagg lake.
Mom sent me pictures of ash coating all the cars and houses in Chico, CA. She went to the gas station and there's apparently a line of 30-40 cars and RV's. She's hoping there's enough gas to fill the vehicles up because people are being stupid and filling a bunch of jerry cans and all their recreational vehicles just in case.
She's trying to fill her car up in case of evacuation or if they cut off the power, so she can sleep in it and utilize the fact it has an air filter and air conditioning. She still relies on home oxygen when she lays flat due to previous health issues.
Also, keep in mind in the 30 years I lived in California, this sort of thing happened exactly once in Chico and now it's the third time in two years.
Remember that conversation about buyouts? Yeah, Paradise should probably be on that list...
Just from the outside this feels like it's becoming a yearly thing to the point where, like, is California going to be uninhabitably on-fire every summer from now on?
Remember that conversation about buyouts? Yeah, Paradise should probably be on that list...
Just from the outside this feels like it's becoming a yearly thing to the point where, like, is California going to be uninhabitably on-fire every summer from now on?
Is there something that can be done?
There's a lot behind it, but one of the terminal factors is aquifer collapse.
California produces a LOT of almonds and other crops that aren't adapted to the land, and require an unconscionable amount of water. The water table is actually drained enough that the clay soil it fills has collapsed into a configuration that can't hold water anymore. This can't be reversed short of stripping the soil down to the healthy water table and rebuilding the land, a scale of geoengineering that's just not feasible.
The land has settled several meters as a result, but the real problem is that rain water can't absorb down into the water table anymore, effectively transforming it into a weird "wet desert" where even with plenty of rainfall the land will remain arid. If the droughts ever end by the technical definition, they'll never end.
Remember that conversation about buyouts? Yeah, Paradise should probably be on that list...
Just from the outside this feels like it's becoming a yearly thing to the point where, like, is California going to be uninhabitably on-fire every summer from now on?
Is there something that can be done?
There's a lot behind it, but one of the terminal factors is aquifer collapse.
California produces a LOT of almonds and other crops that aren't adapted to the land, and require an unconscionable amount of water. The water table is actually drained enough that the clay soil it fills has collapsed into a configuration that can't hold water anymore. This can't be reversed short of stripping the soil down to the healthy water table and rebuilding the land, a scale of geoengineering that's just not feasible.
The land has settled several meters as a result, but the real problem is that rain water can't absorb down into the water table anymore, effectively transforming it into a weird "wet desert" where even with plenty of rainfall the land will remain arid. If the droughts ever end by the technical definition, they'll never end.
They divert water from further and further away as well. Every year they pretend that things are fine because snowmelt fills the rivers for a brief period before running to the ocean and never really replenishing the surface reservoirs.
They still flood the rice fields and grow almonds every year though because the water use laws grandfather in a bunch of flat rate farms that should be paying per gallon but don't.
There are yearly floods followed immediately by reinstatement of a droughts.
Fires in 2017 and 2018 crested the top of the Cascade Mountains — the long spine that divides dry eastern Oregon from the lush western part of the state — but never before spread into the valleys below, said Doug Grafe, chief of Fire Protection at the Oregon Department of Forestry.
“We do not have a context for this amount of fire on the landscape,” he said. “Seeing them run down the canyons the way they have — carrying tens of miles in one period of an afternoon and not slowing down in the evening – (there is) absolutely no context for that in this environment.”
We've started cancelling surgical procedures at work because some of the patients need to drive in from outskirt towns and with evacuation orders and road closures that would be very unsafe.
In a phenomenon never before seen at such a scale, wildfires are changing the weather of an entire region, meteorologists said. And forecasters don’t know when it will end.
“Fires create their own weather,” National Weather Service meteorologist Roger Gass explained, but usually only on a small scale, in areas close to the flames.
The smoke that upended the Bay Area on Wednesday, though, was coming from hundreds of miles away. Most of it, Gass said, was likely from the August Complex Fire in the Mendocino National Forest and the Bear Fire in the western Sierra. Smoke from other fires throughout California, Oregon and Washington was also mixed into the massive layer of haze.
“We’re having such a large scope of dense smoke across the Bay Area and the West Coast in general, that it’s actually impacting our weather conditions,” Gass said. “We’re kind of in uncharted territory right now.”
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In addition to the darkness, the forecasters said temperatures would likely remain cooler than forecast as the smoke blocks the sunlight.
“The smoke is more or less in control of the forecast,” said another National Weather Service meteorologist, Drew Peterson. “By that, I mean that the forecast models are probably going to be wrong. It’s probably going to be much cooler than we’re forecasting. How much cooler, we don’t know.”
Temperatures in the inland East Bay and in the Almaden Valley area of San Jose were expected to top out in the upper 80s, and morning temperatures unofficially were in the low 60s early Wednesday, Peterson said. On the coast, in San Francisco and Monterey, the mercury is not expected to rise past 69 degrees.
The few times I stepped outside with the dogs today, it was noticeably cool. Will be curious to see how this plays out over the weekend, but if they can't get the bigger fires contained (and it doesn't seem they have a way to contain the Creek fire at all at the moment) I don't see how it gets better anytime soon.
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Up in Redding I kinda got used to California essentially being Mordor one summer out of three. We even had the sky changing colors or just pretending to be night. It...kinda sounds a lot like what was being described here.
So, I sorta wonder if this is particularly intense or if it's just affecting more/unusual parts of the state. Certainly I don't recall the coastal areas having it quite so bad. It's real bad either way but now I'm curious.
This is historic levels of burning and destruction.
Growing up near SF, I don't remember smoke being a thing from when I was born until I left in like 2012 or whatever it was. Now it's something like yearly, and this is a particularly bad one.
Any one of these fires would be a challenge, trying to battle them all at once is just impossible. Like 200 firefighters available for a fire that should needs 1500, times all the fires state/coastwide.
Up in Redding I kinda got used to California essentially being Mordor one summer out of three. We even had the sky changing colors or just pretending to be night. It...kinda sounds a lot like what was being described here.
So, I sorta wonder if this is particularly intense or if it's just affecting more/unusual parts of the state. Certainly I don't recall the coastal areas having it quite so bad. It's real bad either way but now I'm curious.
3 of the 4 largest fires in state history are burning right now.
Ordered just so many air purifiers for my family in Cen Cal, plus some pet crates. They're dealing with way too many cats, including some that are not transportation-friendly at all.
I am really, really glad they don't have horses anymore. Cat swarms are hard enough to rescue. The Snow White intro scene worth of adorable wild animals that they live around are not going to be so lucky if it sweeps up their area.
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I gave up. I put in for a portable AC unit and an air purifier (my apartment doesn't allow window units). Purifier arrives tomorrow, AC arrives Saturday. :P
After 10 years without AC I finally surrender. Can't open up the windows for ventilation when it's raining ash and the skies look like blood!
How many tons of material is drifting away as ash and how, if at all, does that affect regrowth in burned areas? All that matter getting removed from the ecosystem has to have an effect.
Also wondering if this might hit a point where the east coast might feel some of the impact. At some point the westerlies are going to have enough soot and ash to work with, that some of it finds it's way east in significant amounts. Granted, this assumes we aren't already at the point where there is enough material for that inevitably happen.
How many tons of material is drifting away as ash and how, if at all, does that affect regrowth in burned areas? All that matter getting removed from the ecosystem has to have an effect.
It will probably have a fertilizing effect over a wide area. Old dead, fallen trees are kind of useless without enough moisture for fungi to really eat into them. Fires are good for these forests as long as they don't burn so hot that they kill everything. Some trees require fire to reproduce.
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Creek Fire is up to 166,965 Acres.
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Also wondering if this might hit a point where the east coast might feel some of the impact. At some point the westerlies are going to have enough soot and ash to work with, that some of it finds it's way east in significant amounts. Granted, this assumes we aren't already at the point where there is enough material for that inevitably happen.
That's a long projection to look at. For now it's better to ask how the neighboring states are doing.
I forget if I posted it here or not, I'm sleep deprived, but a couple days ago here in the Vegas tip of Nevada we had a bunch of shit just drop down on us from California. Low visibility, terrible air quality. Yesterday a decent wind system came threw and blew almost all of it away, though even today there was some subtle haze in the distance. I dunno what the following days are going to look like. The wind has slowed for the most part, but over the next week it subtly picks up again. I dunno if that will make things better or worse for us and I guess it depends on what continues to burn in California.
I'm a lot more distressed about this than I'm letting on. I haven't heard anything about family members having to be evacuated. Friends of mine from so long ago that are still in the state, well I don't use Facebook anymore so I just don't have a clue. I can't help but think about things in the worst sense. Even if they're not in the direct danger from the flames, there's just so much shit in the air that's bad for their lungs.
Putting in spoilers just because I'm not sure how it plays with being linked, but this is an oregon.gov map that also shows fire locations in California.
The details of evacuation zones and such are pretty scary. All that red and yellow southeast of Portland isn't just a bunch of fields or trees.
From a scientific standpoint, why did the sky turn orange/red? It can't be just reflections of the fires or anything like chemicals, right? There was probably some kind of light/refraction thing going on?
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From a scientific standpoint, why did the sky turn orange/red? It can't be just reflections of the fires or anything like chemicals, right? There was probably some kind of light/refraction thing going on?
Can't remember the exact reason why but basically anytime you have a large amount of dust/particulates in the air the sky will do that. It's easier to see with the moon since it is not as bright and so requires a lower concentration to occur.
How many tons of material is drifting away as ash and how, if at all, does that affect regrowth in burned areas? All that matter getting removed from the ecosystem has to have an effect.
It will probably have a fertilizing effect over a wide area. Old dead, fallen trees are kind of useless without enough moisture for fungi to really eat into them. Fires are good for these forests as long as they don't burn so hot that they kill everything. Some trees require fire to reproduce.
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Creek Fire is up to 166,965 Acres.
Yeah, the forests in California evolved in a way that has summer burnings act as part of their life cycle and the growth of new trees and brush. One of the major reasons that these fires are so bad is because we constantly fight and contain the fires, and all of this underbrush that's suppose to burn away every year or two has just built up more and more. Its all just been waiting for a tipping point and eventually we'd get fires so large they could not be contained or controlled. It seems like we might have finally hit that point.
From a scientific standpoint, why did the sky turn orange/red? It can't be just reflections of the fires or anything like chemicals, right? There was probably some kind of light/refraction thing going on?
Because Conner MacLeod and Allan Neyman are trying to save the Earth after our ozone layer was destroyed.
Boy, I remember when apocalyptic climate stories were all just cheesy fiction.
From a scientific standpoint, why did the sky turn orange/red? It can't be just reflections of the fires or anything like chemicals, right? There was probably some kind of light/refraction thing going on?
Can't remember the exact reason why but basically anytime you have a large amount of dust/particulates in the air the sky will do that. It's easier to see with the moon since it is not as bright and so requires a lower concentration to occur.
Presumably for the same reason the sky is blue and sunsets are red. Blue light scatters in normal atmosphere -> shows blue. Add "more" atmosphere either via light smoke to incease density or just more from angle and blue light is almost entirely filtered away and redder light scatter starts to become dominant
From a scientific standpoint, why did the sky turn orange/red? It can't be just reflections of the fires or anything like chemicals, right? There was probably some kind of light/refraction thing going on?
@Eddy - Smoke absorbs higher energy sunlight wavelengths (higher frequency/shorter wavelength light) and does not absorb light on the lower energy end of the spectrum (lower frequency/longer wavelength) such as red and infrared.
Also wondering if this might hit a point where the east coast might feel some of the impact. At some point the westerlies are going to have enough soot and ash to work with, that some of it finds it's way east in significant amounts. Granted, this assumes we aren't already at the point where there is enough material for that inevitably happen.
That's a long projection to look at. For now it's better to ask how the neighboring states are doing.
I forget if I posted it here or not, I'm sleep deprived, but a couple days ago here in the Vegas tip of Nevada we had a bunch of shit just drop down on us from California. Low visibility, terrible air quality. Yesterday a decent wind system came threw and blew almost all of it away, though even today there was some subtle haze in the distance. I dunno what the following days are going to look like. The wind has slowed for the most part, but over the next week it subtly picks up again. I dunno if that will make things better or worse for us and I guess it depends on what continues to burn in California.
I'm a lot more distressed about this than I'm letting on. I haven't heard anything about family members having to be evacuated. Friends of mine from so long ago that are still in the state, well I don't use Facebook anymore so I just don't have a clue. I can't help but think about things in the worst sense. Even if they're not in the direct danger from the flames, there's just so much shit in the air that's bad for their lungs.
I figured based what I've seen and read, that the neighboring states were already seeing an impact from the wildfires.
“Normally when we switch to the onshore flow, when the winds start coming off the ocean and onto the land, that would clear us out,” said meteorologist Dana Felton with the National Weather Service in Seattle.
“But this is a rare case where there's a lot of smoke sitting out there over the ocean from those Oregon and California fires. So, we'll just have to see if that switch to westerly and south-westerly winds pushes that back over us.
The air quality where I am (Oregon, slightly east of Portland) isn't all that bad, considering; it's a hazy yellowish right now, but we never got anywhere near the apocalyptic red and orange colors seen in pictures throughout the day yesterday. We have experienced some power blips, but never a full-on outage, whereas I have coworkers who have been reporting outages to the company Discord.
I am, however, concerned because my apartment is a 2-minute drive from the current "be ready to evacuate" line that's currently been drawn along a seemingly arbitrary straight line, with the full on "leave now" red zone reaching up without even the yellow in between. I've packed a suitcase, gathered important documents, and put the collar on the cat, but I'm a bundle of nerves right now and not having slept isn't helping.
If they do call for an evac, where the hell would I even go? South is definitely out, that's were the majority of the fire is coming from. East is a single highway along the river, so if anything goes bad there it will go really bad, and I think the forest service has closed off everything along it anyway. West is into the city, and once we make it past, say, Beaverton, there's literally nothing out there. North is to flee up into Washington, which is having its own problems along the highway and in Vancouver.
And to think we moved here because we liked rain!
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Check your county website, they should have localized information about evacuation levels, where to go, etc. Usually fairgrounds/schools/other large areas away from the fire will be set up as evacuation locations.
Check tripcheck.com to make sure the roads are open in the direction you're headed.
I'm guessing we'll likely see a lot of level 1's right next to level 3's as the fire approaches more densely populated areas, there's not going to be a lot of in between area, if they think the fire is going to break toward the area it's just time to go.
Check your county website, they should have localized information about evacuation levels, where to go, etc. Usually fairgrounds/schools/other large areas away from the fire will be set up as evacuation locations.
Check tripcheck.com to make sure the roads are open in the direction you're headed.
I'm guessing we'll likely see a lot of level 1's right next to level 3's as the fire approaches more densely populated areas, there's not going to be a lot of in between area, if they think the fire is going to break toward the area it's just time to go.
Cannot overstate this enough. Communication has been spotty at times, and even then sometimes the fire does things planners don't expect. If you think you need to go to be safe, go. Don't wait.
Check your county website, they should have localized information about evacuation levels, where to go, etc. Usually fairgrounds/schools/other large areas away from the fire will be set up as evacuation locations.
Check tripcheck.com to make sure the roads are open in the direction you're headed.
I'm guessing we'll likely see a lot of level 1's right next to level 3's as the fire approaches more densely populated areas, there's not going to be a lot of in between area, if they think the fire is going to break toward the area it's just time to go.
Cannot overstate this enough. Communication has been spotty at times, and even then sometimes the fire does things planners don't expect. If you think you need to go to be safe, go. Don't wait.
The way it sounds maybe just bailing sooner is advisable to avoid traffic.
Do you think its just a matter of time before you're evacuating?
Up in Redding I kinda got used to California essentially being Mordor one summer out of three. We even had the sky changing colors or just pretending to be night. It...kinda sounds a lot like what was being described here.
So, I sorta wonder if this is particularly intense or if it's just affecting more/unusual parts of the state. Certainly I don't recall the coastal areas having it quite so bad. It's real bad either way but now I'm curious.
It's unheard of in SF. It looked like that picture I posted above at noon. I woke up late because of it, and since my nightstand clock is a standard 12 hour, I at first thought I'd somehow slept through to 11pm (it was 11am). It's bad again today, but it's not quite planes-of-hell bad.
@Bursar please stay safe no I would not head east, do you have friends in the city area? you can also check your county website or Red Cross Cascades for a spot to meet up and then hopefully get put into a hotel.
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Mom sent me pictures of ash coating all the cars and houses in Chico, CA. She went to the gas station and there's apparently a line of 30-40 cars and RV's. She's hoping there's enough gas to fill the vehicles up because people are being stupid and filling a bunch of jerry cans and all their recreational vehicles just in case.
She's trying to fill her car up in case of evacuation or if they cut off the power, so she can sleep in it and utilize the fact it has an air filter and air conditioning. She still relies on home oxygen when she lays flat due to previous health issues.
Also, keep in mind in the 30 years I lived in California, this sort of thing happened exactly once in Chico and now it's the third time in two years.
Just from the outside this feels like it's becoming a yearly thing to the point where, like, is California going to be uninhabitably on-fire every summer from now on?
Is there something that can be done?
I'm in San Francisco right now, and the ambience outside is fucking unreal. From a local news site:
There's a lot behind it, but one of the terminal factors is aquifer collapse.
California produces a LOT of almonds and other crops that aren't adapted to the land, and require an unconscionable amount of water. The water table is actually drained enough that the clay soil it fills has collapsed into a configuration that can't hold water anymore. This can't be reversed short of stripping the soil down to the healthy water table and rebuilding the land, a scale of geoengineering that's just not feasible.
The land has settled several meters as a result, but the real problem is that rain water can't absorb down into the water table anymore, effectively transforming it into a weird "wet desert" where even with plenty of rainfall the land will remain arid. If the droughts ever end by the technical definition, they'll never end.
They divert water from further and further away as well. Every year they pretend that things are fine because snowmelt fills the rivers for a brief period before running to the ocean and never really replenishing the surface reservoirs.
They still flood the rice fields and grow almonds every year though because the water use laws grandfather in a bunch of flat rate farms that should be paying per gallon but don't.
There are yearly floods followed immediately by reinstatement of a droughts.
towns are being erased in Oregon
https://apnews.com/9002178ddd7d935c75f6ff666d044d16
Healthcare is having problems.
The few times I stepped outside with the dogs today, it was noticeably cool. Will be curious to see how this plays out over the weekend, but if they can't get the bigger fires contained (and it doesn't seem they have a way to contain the Creek fire at all at the moment) I don't see how it gets better anytime soon.
So, I sorta wonder if this is particularly intense or if it's just affecting more/unusual parts of the state. Certainly I don't recall the coastal areas having it quite so bad. It's real bad either way but now I'm curious.
Growing up near SF, I don't remember smoke being a thing from when I was born until I left in like 2012 or whatever it was. Now it's something like yearly, and this is a particularly bad one.
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This kind of thing worries me. Some communities are pretty close to being surrounded by flame aren't they?
3 of the 4 largest fires in state history are burning right now.
A highly esteemed photographer put this on Instagram, from his retirement getaway near Bozeman, MT.
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I am really, really glad they don't have horses anymore. Cat swarms are hard enough to rescue. The Snow White intro scene worth of adorable wild animals that they live around are not going to be so lucky if it sweeps up their area.
After 10 years without AC I finally surrender. Can't open up the windows for ventilation when it's raining ash and the skies look like blood!
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Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
It will probably have a fertilizing effect over a wide area. Old dead, fallen trees are kind of useless without enough moisture for fungi to really eat into them. Fires are good for these forests as long as they don't burn so hot that they kill everything. Some trees require fire to reproduce.
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Creek Fire is up to 166,965 Acres.
I forget if I posted it here or not, I'm sleep deprived, but a couple days ago here in the Vegas tip of Nevada we had a bunch of shit just drop down on us from California. Low visibility, terrible air quality. Yesterday a decent wind system came threw and blew almost all of it away, though even today there was some subtle haze in the distance. I dunno what the following days are going to look like. The wind has slowed for the most part, but over the next week it subtly picks up again. I dunno if that will make things better or worse for us and I guess it depends on what continues to burn in California.
I'm a lot more distressed about this than I'm letting on. I haven't heard anything about family members having to be evacuated. Friends of mine from so long ago that are still in the state, well I don't use Facebook anymore so I just don't have a clue. I can't help but think about things in the worst sense. Even if they're not in the direct danger from the flames, there's just so much shit in the air that's bad for their lungs.
Putting in spoilers just because I'm not sure how it plays with being linked, but this is an oregon.gov map that also shows fire locations in California.
The details of evacuation zones and such are pretty scary. All that red and yellow southeast of Portland isn't just a bunch of fields or trees.
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Can't remember the exact reason why but basically anytime you have a large amount of dust/particulates in the air the sky will do that. It's easier to see with the moon since it is not as bright and so requires a lower concentration to occur.
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Yeah, the forests in California evolved in a way that has summer burnings act as part of their life cycle and the growth of new trees and brush. One of the major reasons that these fires are so bad is because we constantly fight and contain the fires, and all of this underbrush that's suppose to burn away every year or two has just built up more and more. Its all just been waiting for a tipping point and eventually we'd get fires so large they could not be contained or controlled. It seems like we might have finally hit that point.
Because Conner MacLeod and Allan Neyman are trying to save the Earth after our ozone layer was destroyed.
Boy, I remember when apocalyptic climate stories were all just cheesy fiction.
Presumably for the same reason the sky is blue and sunsets are red. Blue light scatters in normal atmosphere -> shows blue. Add "more" atmosphere either via light smoke to incease density or just more from angle and blue light is almost entirely filtered away and redder light scatter starts to become dominant
@Eddy - Smoke absorbs higher energy sunlight wavelengths (higher frequency/shorter wavelength light) and does not absorb light on the lower energy end of the spectrum (lower frequency/longer wavelength) such as red and infrared.
I figured based what I've seen and read, that the neighboring states were already seeing an impact from the wildfires.
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Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
https://kuow.org/stories/offshore-winds-could-bring-more-wildfire-smoke-back-to-seattle-area
I am, however, concerned because my apartment is a 2-minute drive from the current "be ready to evacuate" line that's currently been drawn along a seemingly arbitrary straight line, with the full on "leave now" red zone reaching up without even the yellow in between. I've packed a suitcase, gathered important documents, and put the collar on the cat, but I'm a bundle of nerves right now and not having slept isn't helping.
If they do call for an evac, where the hell would I even go? South is definitely out, that's were the majority of the fire is coming from. East is a single highway along the river, so if anything goes bad there it will go really bad, and I think the forest service has closed off everything along it anyway. West is into the city, and once we make it past, say, Beaverton, there's literally nothing out there. North is to flee up into Washington, which is having its own problems along the highway and in Vancouver.
And to think we moved here because we liked rain!
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Check tripcheck.com to make sure the roads are open in the direction you're headed.
I'm guessing we'll likely see a lot of level 1's right next to level 3's as the fire approaches more densely populated areas, there's not going to be a lot of in between area, if they think the fire is going to break toward the area it's just time to go.
Cannot overstate this enough. Communication has been spotty at times, and even then sometimes the fire does things planners don't expect. If you think you need to go to be safe, go. Don't wait.
The way it sounds maybe just bailing sooner is advisable to avoid traffic.
Do you think its just a matter of time before you're evacuating?
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It's unheard of in SF. It looked like that picture I posted above at noon. I woke up late because of it, and since my nightstand clock is a standard 12 hour, I at first thought I'd somehow slept through to 11pm (it was 11am). It's bad again today, but it's not quite planes-of-hell bad.
Here's the weather prediction for smoke to come back over most of the state
@Bursar please stay safe no I would not head east, do you have friends in the city area? you can also check your county website or Red Cross Cascades for a spot to meet up and then hopefully get put into a hotel.
Here's the latest evac map in Clackamas Co
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