Rhodie Ranch
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I read about Major's 11 inches of rain and then 4.32 inches and then more and watched his vids....Rain. Gosh, we need rain, but its just not part of our climate out west. In Grants Pass OR on the 15th of July a thunder and lightening storm (virtually no rain) came thru. It started over 100 fires of which two are still burning. The one impacting me is the Taylor Creek Fire, which started about 7 crow fly miles from my home. Now its 2 crow miles, and the street across from my neighborhood is Level One evac. Meaning: be ready. Think, plan, stage your stuff. Just in case. Well, we've been staged and ready for 12 days now.
Baby pics, guns, files, pic frames with generations of family, my two sewing machines, hubs record collection, ammo, dog and cat food and the crates. Since we've not fully unpacked, it took a day to find the above to stage it. We also moved our 5th wheel and the 24' cargo mate trailer into place for pulling outa here. You never know...
In the meantime, hubs cancelled a trip to San Jose to do a deck job. He did go to the coast for his friend's mother's 91st BD, but he came home after a day and a half cus it was getting knarly. We had our second break in in this neighborhood in the year we've been here, down the street. Tweakers fleeing the hills have come down and are roaming around.
The National Guard was called in two weeks ago, to man(woman) check points for the Level 3 evac areas. The tweakers and the scum started looting the empty homes. The Guard mans the check points for a 24 hr shift. They check id's for addresses, but still the pond scum found ways in. Some of the Level 3's have been lifted, but not all. The folks in Level 2 are just hunkered down.
We have fire fighters from all over the west coast here in town. The Redding Fire (called Carr Fire) was horrible and pulled resources away from ours. Not a problem. They lost homes and lives. We've only lost forest cus the structure teams have keep any homes and resorts from burning down. Our fire is slow and steady. The Carr fire was a fire storm.
Baby pics, guns, files, pic frames with generations of family, my two sewing machines, hubs record collection, ammo, dog and cat food and the crates. Since we've not fully unpacked, it took a day to find the above to stage it. We also moved our 5th wheel and the 24' cargo mate trailer into place for pulling outa here. You never know...
In the meantime, hubs cancelled a trip to San Jose to do a deck job. He did go to the coast for his friend's mother's 91st BD, but he came home after a day and a half cus it was getting knarly. We had our second break in in this neighborhood in the year we've been here, down the street. Tweakers fleeing the hills have come down and are roaming around.
The National Guard was called in two weeks ago, to man(woman) check points for the Level 3 evac areas. The tweakers and the scum started looting the empty homes. The Guard mans the check points for a 24 hr shift. They check id's for addresses, but still the pond scum found ways in. Some of the Level 3's have been lifted, but not all. The folks in Level 2 are just hunkered down.
We have fire fighters from all over the west coast here in town. The Redding Fire (called Carr Fire) was horrible and pulled resources away from ours. Not a problem. They lost homes and lives. We've only lost forest cus the structure teams have keep any homes and resorts from burning down. Our fire is slow and steady. The Carr fire was a fire storm.
