all things, o priests, are on fire
Aug. 14th, 2018 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishSo, we're under a wildfire evacuation alert. The smoke cloud is visible from the back deck, and the air's distinctly yellowish this morning.
Informative links: Evac order for the Shovel Lake fire, as of 13 August at nine PM. (If that link's 404'd, click "Home Page" and look for the most recent Shovel Lake fire evac order.) Wildfires of Note page for the Shovel Lake fire. On the map in the evac order link: find the vertical "Highway 27" on the right, and we're just across the highway from the W in "Highway."
Current thinking is that most of the evac order area will be on fire in the next day or two, if it's not already, and the eastern arm of the evac alert will change to an evac order by the weekend. Erin has borrowed a trailer from a coworker, and will be spending much of today modding it to hold a hundred birds. Or perhaps fifty birds, in two trips. Current plan, subject to more or less immediate change, is to leave in the next couple of days, ahead of the crowd, and take everything but me down to her partner Josh's place four hours south. (I get dropped off at the airport on the way.)
It's stressful but it's not the worst stress. On me, anyway; s'not my house. I am mostly trying to hold together in the face of some other unspecified stresses, and otherwise be a reasonable amount of support in the current situation. It's also possible that I will come entirely apart more or less as soon as my brain registers it as being "safe" to do so, which may be "as soon as i'm on an airplane" or "as soon as i'm at home."
Kind of puts my plumbing woes in perspective. Though I still don't want to go through that again either.
Informative links: Evac order for the Shovel Lake fire, as of 13 August at nine PM. (If that link's 404'd, click "Home Page" and look for the most recent Shovel Lake fire evac order.) Wildfires of Note page for the Shovel Lake fire. On the map in the evac order link: find the vertical "Highway 27" on the right, and we're just across the highway from the W in "Highway."
Current thinking is that most of the evac order area will be on fire in the next day or two, if it's not already, and the eastern arm of the evac alert will change to an evac order by the weekend. Erin has borrowed a trailer from a coworker, and will be spending much of today modding it to hold a hundred birds. Or perhaps fifty birds, in two trips. Current plan, subject to more or less immediate change, is to leave in the next couple of days, ahead of the crowd, and take everything but me down to her partner Josh's place four hours south. (I get dropped off at the airport on the way.)
It's stressful but it's not the worst stress. On me, anyway; s'not my house. I am mostly trying to hold together in the face of some other unspecified stresses, and otherwise be a reasonable amount of support in the current situation. It's also possible that I will come entirely apart more or less as soon as my brain registers it as being "safe" to do so, which may be "as soon as i'm on an airplane" or "as soon as i'm at home."
Kind of puts my plumbing woes in perspective. Though I still don't want to go through that again either.
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Date: 2018-08-14 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-14 10:09 pm (UTC)We've got property in Canim Lake that was under evac order during last year's wildfires. We weren't up at the time, but we'd been there a week earlier, and... Ugh. It's not a good feeling, knowing that there really isn't anything you can do, once you've got everything ready to go.
Here's hoping for a helpful shift in the wind, or rain. :x
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Date: 2018-08-14 10:31 pm (UTC)But Josh is in Williams Lake, and he was evacuated for, what, three weeks? a month? last year. And his house was fine, if fairly smoky for awhile. So, there's that.
Rain would be so lovely right about now. I believe the fire is at the point where it's generating its own exciting weather systems, to include lightning storms so it can spread faster & further...
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Date: 2018-08-15 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-17 03:52 am (UTC)S.B. is in Vancouver through tomorrow evening, and said smoke smell is in the air as of a few days ago in the city proper. :(
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Date: 2018-08-17 04:02 pm (UTC)