Mandatory evacuations have been extended into the Tahoe basin. https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...53543.9996,-13379044.1683,4706285.5492,102100
It's already plowing through the Desolation Wilderness, which is as close to bare granite as you get in this end of the Sierra.
This is the evacuation map. Updated evacuation map for El Dorado and Amador counties. pic.twitter.com/d3Q0hnkkO5— Lake Tahoe USFS (@LakeTahoeUSFS) August 30, 2021 The Red Flag warning kicks in tomorrow at 2:00. That's when the winds really start.
They just issued an evacuation warning for the entirety of South Lake Tahoe. #CaldorFire Update to Evacuation Warnings pic.twitter.com/cb21kqacpu— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) August 30, 2021
Are you ready to hightail it outta town at the drop of a hat? I imagine you’ve been prepping for that possibility for a month(s)?
I'm not in the path of this fire. But I could be in the path of the next one. I'm prepared, but watching South Lake Tahoe enter into a mandatory evacuation today makes me feel I should be even more prepared than I am.
Shit's getting serious now ... Nevada Gaming Control Board says most "if not all" the major casinos in South Lake Tahoe have begun shutting down some of their gaming operations due to #CaldorFire It is presumed the closures "will escalate" over the next few hours. @TheNVIndy— Howard Stutz (@howardstutz) August 30, 2021 Not even joking. They never close the casinos.
This one is right near me ... Fire on Donner Lake #donnerlake #truckee #donnerlakefire pic.twitter.com/kLyPiR9Dxx— John Slack (@slackerini) August 31, 2021
That one seems to have been put out before it grew into a massive thing. We went to Donner Lake State Park a bunch of times this summer so the last thing we want to see is everything burning up around there. Not that it's OK for the people in South Lake Tahoe to get burned out of their houses, but it means more when it's a place you've been to.
Hard to see the current pattern of fires abating in the foreseeable future. If anything, it's going to get worse absent the current pattern of drought and heat changing markedly for the better. So sooner or later vast areas of the Sierra Nevada and elsewhere are going to burn compared to what's burned in recent years.
Or hurricanes in the South and East. T Unfortunately, by the time that general society agrees that climate change is real, harmful, and should be stopped, even at an economic cost, the ********ers in power who are permitting this will be dead. As will be their voter enablers. They will never face up to the damage that they have caused.
Well at least there’s a little good news personally regarding the Caldor fire, my brother’s cabin at Echo Summit survived the initial onslaught, firefighters posted a video of driving through the area this morning calling out addresses and giving updates. They’re doing a kickass job of protecting structures so far all around.
Knave should go outside and breathe deep. The AQI in Truckee is down to single digits. It won't last, but enjoy it while it does.
Mine are from Levoit off Amazon - two small ones, two big ones. As long as it's a True HEPA air filter, you should be good.
So, there's another fire. The Bridge Fire. It's 60+ miles away, but the Caldor Fire covered that kind of ground. And with the Bridge Fire, the prevailing winds aim to me. Unless they can nip this one in the bud, this could be bad news for me.
After extensive research, so that now I’m an online expert, I got a couple Levoit 400s. I figured they’d run real quiet I. The bedrooms, and would be good enough to haul out into the living room and kitchen if we need to. Almost bought an indoor purple air sensor too, but it seems as though the purifiers should give us a reasonable idea what we’re dealing with. There are a half-dozen outdoor sensors within a couple blocks of us, so we can just bum off of them.
Oh, bummer. I've been there - we have a friend with a vacation home in Auburn Lake Trails, which is near the town of "Cool", on route 49 just south of where that fire is. It's in a pretty deep canyon and is probably hard to get to - Route 49 goes way down from Auburn to the river and then back up to Cool, and the Foresthill Bridge goes way up high over the canyon. I'm assuming that the Foresthill Bridge is the bridge that the fire is named after. My wife is up in Reno tonight, planning on coming back tomorrow. If that fire grows much or starts burning towards the west, it may close I-80 and her drive will get a lot longer. But it will probably just roll up the canyon for a while, it's hard to fight in there.
There's a little town in there called Foresthill as well. I've done some hiking and exploring in that area, it's very rugged and densely forested, I imagine pretty challenging for firefighting. But on the bright side for Knave's sake there's a lot of granite once you get up to the crest that should slow it down pretty good if it goes that direction. But then I said that about the Caldor fire too....