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Santa Cruz Fires: Not Ash Yet!
5 years ago
Not everyone follows me on Twitter (@beach_fox, tell your friends!), so not everyone knows.
For the last eight years, we've been living up in the Santa Cruz mountains. Very nice place. Very wild and beautiful Mite bit flammable.
This year, the Firestorm Roulette has come down solidly against us. The weekend of August 16th or so, dry lightning storms raced through California setting off what officials have termed "A Metric Shitton" of brushfires. Thanks to California's long-running policy of using poorly paid prisoners as their firefighter foot-soldiers combining with all the prisons being under quarantine because no precautions were taken against COVID and now they're all plague ships, combined with Trump having a hateon for our state and cutting as much fire funding as he can because we should just be "Raking the Leaves", we have about a tenth of our usual fire-fighting capability to deal with this.
In summery, everything's on fire, and we were given an emergency evacuation order last Wednesday to get the fuck out.
We got ourselves, our animals, and about three carloads (thanks, Nonfurry Work Friends, for the extra car!) worth of whatever we could grab quicklike in 100F+ weather hauled off the mountain while burnt leaves fluttered down from the sky like snow created by someone who never did the research.
We're safely camped up in San Francisco, now, in my parents' auxiliary storage unit. It's hot as hell, but it's not actively on fire, nor is it likely to become so in the near future.
All the fire maps suggest that our place is currently -not- on fire, and they're hopeful that the fire-line wont advance much further before they get full containment, so we'll see how it goes. Still going to be a month or so until we can go back, most likely.
Smash and Dragon weren't so lucky. Their place got fully leveled. Not sure how the other SCMountain furries are doing, atm.
Regardless: So far in 2020 I've gotten to deal with Trump, COVID, my dad dying of ALS while under COVID quarantine, and now this. Keeping my spirits up, but I also want to just find whoever's in charge of all this and shake them while screaming wordlessly in their face for a few hours.
Y'know.
So yeah! I keep getting concerned comments, so here's the official word! We're alive! Our animals are alive! Most critical portions of Our Stuff is not on fire, and our house is currently not on fire and may not be on fire at all this year!
For the last eight years, we've been living up in the Santa Cruz mountains. Very nice place. Very wild and beautiful Mite bit flammable.
This year, the Firestorm Roulette has come down solidly against us. The weekend of August 16th or so, dry lightning storms raced through California setting off what officials have termed "A Metric Shitton" of brushfires. Thanks to California's long-running policy of using poorly paid prisoners as their firefighter foot-soldiers combining with all the prisons being under quarantine because no precautions were taken against COVID and now they're all plague ships, combined with Trump having a hateon for our state and cutting as much fire funding as he can because we should just be "Raking the Leaves", we have about a tenth of our usual fire-fighting capability to deal with this.
In summery, everything's on fire, and we were given an emergency evacuation order last Wednesday to get the fuck out.
We got ourselves, our animals, and about three carloads (thanks, Nonfurry Work Friends, for the extra car!) worth of whatever we could grab quicklike in 100F+ weather hauled off the mountain while burnt leaves fluttered down from the sky like snow created by someone who never did the research.
We're safely camped up in San Francisco, now, in my parents' auxiliary storage unit. It's hot as hell, but it's not actively on fire, nor is it likely to become so in the near future.
All the fire maps suggest that our place is currently -not- on fire, and they're hopeful that the fire-line wont advance much further before they get full containment, so we'll see how it goes. Still going to be a month or so until we can go back, most likely.
Smash and Dragon weren't so lucky. Their place got fully leveled. Not sure how the other SCMountain furries are doing, atm.
Regardless: So far in 2020 I've gotten to deal with Trump, COVID, my dad dying of ALS while under COVID quarantine, and now this. Keeping my spirits up, but I also want to just find whoever's in charge of all this and shake them while screaming wordlessly in their face for a few hours.
Y'know.
So yeah! I keep getting concerned comments, so here's the official word! We're alive! Our animals are alive! Most critical portions of Our Stuff is not on fire, and our house is currently not on fire and may not be on fire at all this year!
We need to set the whole state of fire to 'smoke out' any kind of post from Our Host?
Fuck, dude...