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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Aug 3, 2016 - 6:34pm |
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haresfur wrote:Hope everyone stays safe. Scary stuff. There's apparently a huge fire near the Hanford Nuke site in Washington State. A guy I know lost his house in the last one, but apparently they learned from that and are doing a better job of keeping it out of the town and the contaminated land. I feel for my cow-orkers who have the job of helping to put down thousands of sheep and cattle after big fires here. Things you don't think about, like that and the logistics of trying to get feed in for the rest when the police are trying to close off all the roads, and trying to contain herds when all the fences are burned. Yeah you all had some terrible fires. This one will do some damage but it probably won't reach an actual town. Knock on wood.
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haresfur
Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:
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Aug 3, 2016 - 6:31pm |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:Last summer, our area had essentially zero forest/wildfires. Making up for it this year, boy. One just started yesterday in a "okay" place if you're gonna have a fire, might as well be there. Today, the winds have grabbed it, it's run up and over a pretty big mountain and down into a remote valley filled with *snif* BARLEY and hay etc, drying in the sun. Farms and ranches being evacuated, 2 buildings (barns) lost so far, but it's down on the flatland now, being pushed by high winds... gonna be a lot of trouble and strife. It's ranchland, too, so they're having to round up cows and horses and contend with that. Can't move them all, so I dunno what they do. Probably try to cut a firebreak around the herd?
Hope everyone stays safe. Scary stuff. There's apparently a huge fire near the Hanford Nuke site in Washington State. A guy I know lost his house in the last one, but apparently they learned from that and are doing a better job of keeping it out of the town and the contaminated land. I feel for my cow-orkers who have the job of helping to put down thousands of sheep and cattle after big fires here. Things you don't think about, like that and the logistics of trying to get feed in for the rest when the police are trying to close off all the roads, and trying to contain herds when all the fences are burned.
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Aug 3, 2016 - 6:06pm |
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Last summer, our area had essentially zero forest/wildfires. Making up for it this year, boy. One just started yesterday in a "okay" place if you're gonna have a fire, might as well be there. Today, the winds have grabbed it, it's run up and over a pretty big mountain and down into a remote valley filled with *snif* BARLEY and hay etc, drying in the sun. Farms and ranches being evacuated, 2 buildings (barns) lost so far, but it's down on the flatland now, being pushed by high winds... gonna be a lot of trouble and strife. It's ranchland, too, so they're having to round up cows and horses and contend with that. Can't move them all, so I dunno what they do. Probably try to cut a firebreak around the herd?
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Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
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Jun 20, 2016 - 6:33pm |
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oldviolin wrote: Manbird wrote:Does anyone know how to remove to noxious odor of smoke after a house fire? Because I mean, PEEYOO! It makes me sick every time I go down there.
Luckily we have a giant house sucking evac. fan which cleared the smoke 100x faster than having nothing.
Also the cabinets are burned a little but not as bad as we though, mostly soot I wonder is the burn spots could be sanded and then made to match the existing crap they have up there. It's fairly old at least 15-20 years I'm guessing
Manburn
Dear Manburnt, This source may be useful. I'm not sure if you have a carpet cleaner in the closet so you might have to sub a bucket of water and a scrubber and some elbow grease. As to the second problem. If the bare wood is actually charred there's not much to do about it. You'll have to sand it all down so far it will be a worse situation. If the finish is just scorched I believe you have more than enough ability to fluff it up. Sorry you're having such a torture of it pals. Outside of that, yeah...evac fans...100x baby. That's wassup... Love, Uncle It's a light oak stain, not dark, so whatever we do will be less conspicuous that the black burn marks which are mostly along the edges and would have been half as bad if we did have a magnetic note pad stuck up there which caught fire and burned the woodword more than anything, so here's the moral the the sto thanks Unkyviolin
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oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
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Jun 20, 2016 - 3:55pm |
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Manbird wrote:Does anyone know how to remove to noxious odor of smoke after a house fire? Because I mean, PEEYOO! It makes me sick every time I go down there.
Luckily we have a giant house sucking evac. fan which cleared the smoke 100x faster than having nothing.
Also the cabinets are burned a little but not as bad as we though, mostly soot I wonder is the burn spots could be sanded and then made to match the existing crap they have up there. It's fairly old at least 15-20 years I'm guessing
Manburn
Dear Manburnt, This source may be useful. I'm not sure if you have a carpet cleaner in the closet so you might have to sub a bucket of water and a scrubber and some elbow grease. As to the second problem. If the bare wood is actually charred there's not much to do about it. You'll have to sand it all down so far it will be a worse situation. If the finish is just scorched I believe you have more than enough ability to fluff it up. Sorry you're having such a torture of it pals. Outside of that, yeah...evac fans...100x baby. That's wassup... Love, Uncle
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Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
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Jun 20, 2016 - 2:59pm |
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Does anyone know how to remove to noxious odor of smoke after a house fire? Because I mean, PEEYOO! It makes me sick every time I go down there.
Luckily we have a giant house sucking evac. fan which cleared the smoke 100x faster than having nothing.
Also the cabinets are burned a little but not as bad as we though, mostly soot I wonder is the burn spots could be sanded and then made to match the existing crap they have up there. It's fairly old at least 15-20 years I'm guessing
Manburn
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jun 16, 2016 - 1:34pm |
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ptooey
Location: right behind you. no, over there. Gender:
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May 6, 2016 - 11:44am |
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miamizsun wrote: are there going to be big beautiful doors?
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuge.
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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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May 6, 2016 - 11:32am |
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Coaxial wrote: Trump will build a wall and make them pay for it. We'll be great again.
are there going to be big beautiful doors?
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Coaxial
Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas Gender:
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May 6, 2016 - 11:06am |
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miamizsun wrote: Trump will build a wall and make them pay for it. We'll be great again.
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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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ptooey
Location: right behind you. no, over there. Gender:
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May 6, 2016 - 10:49am |
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ptooey wrote:Huh. No sign of it down here. Big storms supposed to roll through this afternoon - I wonder how this is all going to pan out. Oh, here comes that smoke now.
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ptooey
Location: right behind you. no, over there. Gender:
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May 6, 2016 - 6:56am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:The smoke's here. It's difficult to see two blocks to the west. No visibility of the mountains at all.
Huh. No sign of it down here. Big storms supposed to roll through this afternoon - I wonder how this is all going to pan out.
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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May 6, 2016 - 6:45am |
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The smoke's here. It's difficult to see two blocks to the west. No visibility of the mountains at all.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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May 6, 2016 - 4:53am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote: True. Most of those people shouldn't have been attempting that escape. But there were a couple of cars just stopped, and stopping up the whole road. Mustering up courage or just in awe, doesn't seem like you'd need a traffic cop out there shouting "move along!" But anyway: not a good time to get the yips.
I wonder if it's possible for the oil sands to ignite... that would be a fine mess indeed.
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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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May 6, 2016 - 4:28am |
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mach-hog wrote:Fellow RP listeners As a Canadian I have travelled extensively in the USA. I enjoy my friends from the USA and worked with a USAF Squadron on exchange from the RCAF to the USAF. I loved my time with my American counterparts and frankly was pretty broke up when I had to return to Canada. You are great people and your USAF people in particular are near and dear to my heart. Though I'm from further west, I'm an Albertan. These 80,000 evacuees are in a world of hurt. Their city is in ruins, roads melted, houses destroyed. It will be years before the infrastructure is restored. All donations to the Canadian Red Cross by individuals will be matched by both the Alberta Provincial Government and the Federal Government. For every dollar you donate, three will accumulate.
I won't post the link here - we're all web savvy enough to figure it out. Thanks for your consideration. mach-hog thanks and stay safe here's the link if people feel so inclined
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mach-hog
Location: the high west Gender:
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May 5, 2016 - 11:40pm |
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Fellow RP listeners As a Canadian I have travelled extensively in the USA. I enjoy my friends from the USA and worked with a USAF Squadron on exchange from the RCAF to the USAF. I loved my time with my American counterparts and frankly was pretty broke up when I had to return to Canada. You are great people and your USAF people in particular are near and dear to my heart. Though I'm from further west, I'm an Albertan. These 80,000 evacuees are in a world of hurt. Their city is in ruins, roads melted, houses destroyed. It will be years before the infrastructure is restored. All donations to the Canadian Red Cross by individuals will be matched by both the Alberta Provincial Government and the Federal Government. For every dollar you donate, three will accumulate.
I won't post the link here - we're all web savvy enough to figure it out. Thanks for your consideration. mach-hog
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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May 5, 2016 - 11:15pm |
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haresfur wrote:I don't think gathering up the courage to drive past the fire-front counts as rubbernecking. I our Black Saturday fires 5 years ago, most of the deaths were people trapped in their cars. Now they tell people to get out early or shelter in place. The idea is that you stay in your house until the fire-front passes then get out when the radiant heat subsides and watch your house burn down. True. Most of those people shouldn't have been attempting that escape. But there were a couple of cars just stopped, and stopping up the whole road. Mustering up courage or just in awe, doesn't seem like you'd need a traffic cop out there shouting "move along!" But anyway: not a good time to get the yips.
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haresfur
Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:
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May 5, 2016 - 4:34pm |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:I was hoping someone would jump out and pound the crap out of the rubberneckers holding up the line. I'm sure it blistered the paint on most of those cars... I don't think gathering up the courage to drive past the fire-front counts as rubbernecking. I our Black Saturday fires 5 years ago, most of the deaths were people trapped in their cars. Now they tell people to get out early or shelter in place. The idea is that you stay in your house until the fire-front passes then get out when the radiant heat subsides and watch your house burn down.
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