This Morning

10:00am (still asleep)

MBSE: Do you smell smoke or something burning?

Me: No... (closes eyes and goes back to sleep)

10minutes pass

Father: WAKE UP BEFORE THE HOUSE BURNS DOWN!

I take a second to stare out the window with my -5.25 shitty vision, and even then I can tell that there is a serious fire taking place about 100 to 200 yards away. I snag my glasses from the night stand and head up the the balcony that is a floor above my room. I'm greeted with a hell of a view.



This size of fire continues for about 10 minutes before it runs into some rocks and the firefighters (fooooya-fiiiightaaas heeeeeeeeyyyyyy, fun indian joke for anyone in Leadore with me a couple years back) are able to subdue the flames to a state of smoldering. The air temperature here is 31.5C (89F) and the wind has been gusting up to around 56kph (35mph), so it should be pretty easy for this thing to kick back up into full force. The phone rang a couple minutes later to give us an automated evacuation alert. We promptly ignored the warning and continued to watch the PoPo and Firefighters put out the small blazes still left at the base of trees and sagebrush. A coast guard looking chopper did two flybys with a water bucket and I got a picture of it dumping and returning to the pond for a refill.




I've been working from home for the last week, and I haven't really found the time to put together any blogs. I've just been swamped...