Forest Fires...

**cmacq** · 07-17-2008, 19:22

Originally Posted by Wakizashi

I'm really thankful it didn't take us by surprise and that our state's Forest Service is really good about notifying people about evacuations.

Califoria has a state Forest Service?

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 07-18-2008, 02:20

I was reading an interesting National Geographic article recently, which said that the recent upsurge in forest fires is due to an ill-advised policy for most of the 20th C. of trying to put out all of the forest fires when in fact most of them should have been left to burn, resulting in huge tracts of forest which are just waiting to go up in smoke. Pretty ironic.

**cmacq** · 07-18-2008, 02:54

Yes, that was very green for the day, and it has directly resulted in more and much larger fires with greater loss.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 07-18-2008, 04:11

Good to hear you made it through alright Waki.

CR

**Samurai Waki** · 07-18-2008, 06:55

So far the evacuation is still in place, mostly at this point because of air quality rather than the danger of the fire itself. 24-72hrs is the expected wait time, but supposedly it's gonna get rainy with a little bit of western wind, so I should be clear to go home in a day or two. I don't like staying at Motels, but at least my Cousin lives here, so wifey and I got a little date by ourselves, the first one since February.