Forest fire in 360
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chiselbit
Been here a while
WOW.
evo
Been here much more than a while
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- My Island, WA
yikes, looked a wee bit windy, or perhaps it was the fire it's self.
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- Retired in Minneapolis
WHo else read sebastian Junger's book 'Fire' ?
southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
Fire creates its own weather.
Jan_
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- Rheinland-Pfalz ,Germany
Wow, I'm glad we dont have such big ones in Germany. Last year the military set a swamp on fire with rockets and we had one big 5500000m^2 fire, but thats basically it... I could not imagine living in a zone where any day a fire could burn down your house.
I used to live in the pine barrens of NJ, near the Wharton Tract, and remember well one summer sometime around 1973 or thereabouts, there were a LOT of fires, really made a mess of the place.
(I think this was before the forestry people started making prescribed burns in the winter...now there are areas of the Wharton Tract where the oaks have gotten a leg up and are out-competing the pines, I suspect because all the little pines get burned off in winter by those crews with their gasoline cans...)
Those pitch pines start vaporizing in the heat and making their own draft and it's like plasma. I believe John McPhee wrote about it in his book "The Pine Barrens"...
(I think this was before the forestry people started making prescribed burns in the winter...now there are areas of the Wharton Tract where the oaks have gotten a leg up and are out-competing the pines, I suspect because all the little pines get burned off in winter by those crews with their gasoline cans...)
Those pitch pines start vaporizing in the heat and making their own draft and it's like plasma. I believe John McPhee wrote about it in his book "The Pine Barrens"...
ATH
Been here much more than a while
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- Findlay, Ohio
Is it a safe bet that "crown fire" was not in the Rx fire plan?
evo
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- My Island, WA
yes yes... Just seemed a bit more than a smaller control burn would churn up.
