The Swamp

From what I understand, it's bad.

Yeah, starting to get a little concerned for my sister who lives in west part of Santa Cruz up in the hills a little bit.

Hope she's ok.

In case you wondered how we're doin' out here in the desert. The low last night was 89.

For some reason, relying on prisoners that work to support to California firefighters isn't working out this time because they are overridden with COVID.

The prisoners earn between $2.90 and $5.12 per day, plus an additional $1 per hour during active emergency for their potentially life-threatening efforts. At least the laws have changed it so some of them can actually become real firefighters after being paroled.

brian wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 11:27 am In case you wondered how we're doin' out here in the desert. The low last night was 89.

Yeah, that's insane. The low was 79 in SLC this morning - but damn I'm glad I live up in the mountains right now.

We have the joys of 45-degree daily temperature swings - and running the heat and air conditioning at the same time - but god I don't miss extreme heat.

Okay, now the California fires are a problem.

https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRR ... omain=full

Yeah, my sister and her husband are preparing to leave.

Giff wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:09 pm Yeah, my sister and her husband are preparing to leave.

A lot of people up in those hills are being forced to evacuate immediately.

ETA:

riding out this hurricane. my house is in pearland for all yall weather channel watchers. wish me luck

Stay safe.

When I was driving north, we had smoky sky all the way from my home in the Bay Area until we got into Oregon. Sheesh.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:37 am When I was driving north, we had smoky sky all the way from my home in the Bay Area until we got into Oregon. Sheesh.

Yeah, we were planning to camp in central Idaho this weekend, but that area is looking pretty bad on the smoke maps.

TT2.0 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 10:31 pm riding out this hurricane. my house is in pearland for all yall weather channel watchers. wish me luck

Looks like it won't be a huge deal for you (most likely) but man are parts of the TX-LA border going to be vaporized

The DMV is getting absolutely lit up right now. Tornado warnings all over the place...

Another heat wave in the West. 99 in the Valley on Saturday ... then a chance of snow in the mountains Monday night.

Whee!

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 6:49 am Another heat wave in the West. 99 in the Valley on Saturday ... then a chance of snow in the mountains Monday night.

Whee!

Same here, 'cept we get the snow on Tuesday. Gonna have to cover the crops.

I guess we get all the warnings today ... everything from Winter Weather Advisory and a Hard Freeze to Fire Weather and Excessive Heat.

Yep. 2020 still undefeated.

100 degrees and smoky, here.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 4:29 pm 100 degrees and smoky, here.

Same here. Blocking out the sun. Should be a fantastic sunset though.

Aaaand, the power went out 20 minutes ago. So no fans, and I hope the fridge stays cold!

brian wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:20 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 4:29 pm 100 degrees and smoky, here.

Same here. Blocking out the sun. Should be a fantastic sunset though.

Apparently SLC has the fourth-most-polluted air in the world today. From the CA fires.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:36 pm Aaaand, the power went out 20 minutes ago. So no fans, and I hope the fridge stays cold!

Fuck. Good luck.

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:02 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:36 pm Aaaand, the power went out 20 minutes ago. So no fans, and I hope the fridge stays cold!

Fuck. Good luck.

Thx. It was out for an hour, then power was restored.

Hurricane force winds this morning in Salt Lake City and points north. The entire southeast side of the city is without power.

And up here in the mountains, just a little bit of snow.

It's amazing how you guys in the Rockies are alternating between blast furnace heat and snow and ice.

Yeah they were talking about cooling centers a couple days ago. Now they have warming centers because thousands of people still don’t have power after the windstorm.

brian wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 3:51 pm Yep. 2020 still undefeated.

Jared Polis (our governor) said he preferred it as a map from game of thrones rather than one of colorado.

My pops in SE Wyo went from 100 to snow in ~36 hours. He got about 6” yesterday (nice). The snow came with crazy wind so there are trees down everywhere. Welcome relief from the fires though.

Square Rob wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 4:49 am My pops in SE Wyo went from 100 to snow in ~36 hours. He got about 6” yesterday (nice). The snow came with crazy wind so there are trees down everywhere. Welcome relief from the fires though.

We drove from Jackson to Casper and then Casper to Denver the last couple of days. 93 in Jackson then about 3-4 inches on the car yesterday morning in Casper.


I have no idea how people can live in WYO....and we only saw one Confederate flag!

Something really weird around here. I don't smell smoke much anymore, but the air and sky appear to have a yellow filter on everything. My house stays fairly dark even with the curtains and blinds on the windows pulled open. Like we are living in some post-nuclear world. The SF Comical has an article about it.

I just bought plane tickets out there to spend sometime with my sister who's having a really rough time right now and kinda wishing I had taken a second to remember the fires. Hopefully things are looking better in two weeks.

Albuquerque had wind gusts of something like 70+ yesterday for several hours and like the rest of this part of the country went from summer to winter overnight. Really crazy weather.

Used to really love those windy days in ABQ when the dirt just whips into your eyes.

Still 100,000 folks without power in Salt Lake City (temps down in the 40s down there). My son stayed here overnight so he could stay warm and recharge his laptop and phones.

Someone took drive footage of San Francisco and set it to Blade Runner's music.



Also, great photo:

That is so fucking creepy.

Still no power in a lot of places here. School district cancelled classes today about ten minutes after they started. And cancelled the rest of the week.

So our fourth First Day of School for this year will be next Monday.

Yeah, it felt like we were living on Mars yesterday. Frickin' eerie. Not to be redundant, but here's a couple shots my wife took from our house. The construction workers across the street set up big lights on their job site - in the middle of the afternoon!