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09 Sep 2020, 7:45 pm

Hello elbow grease. The fires are scary. My sister-in-law sent me pictures. They were in the Mt Whitney area. The pictures are orange, just like you said. She described it as apocalyptic.

Take care. If evacuations are called for, go. Like I said above, have any meds, IDs, important papers ready to go.

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09 Sep 2020, 7:58 pm

Hope all is ok.


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09 Sep 2020, 11:01 pm

I think nobody left theirs homes, there were only warning alerts, to prepare people to evacuate if they have to. There are updates, there are ALOT of firemen working very hard to stop the fire & there are airplanes with water, the water look like pink lemonade :D



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10 Sep 2020, 12:04 pm

I have seen gray skies for a couple of days; Day before yesterday the sun was deep orange in the afternoon; strangely beautiful, but SCARY!
I am so sorry for those close to the inferno, the preventable, avoidable inferno!
The military has been called in and has already sent men and helicopters.
OVER a million acres lost!!


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10 Sep 2020, 12:13 pm

Reportedly, the fires are burning at 1000 acres per 30 seconds in California.


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10 Sep 2020, 2:33 pm

We are losing the only truly good and beautiful thing about California....
The wilderness. :cry:


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10 Sep 2020, 3:17 pm

It's smokey out here today and I am keeping my windows closed.


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10 Sep 2020, 3:51 pm

Sylkat wrote:
The Southern California Fire was started by idiots at a ‘Gender Reveal’ party.
They were shooting real bullets from a real gun at a target set up for the party.
The target was packed with a pink or blue powder.
The target was also packed with gunpowder, which exploded, as planned, when bullets hit the target; great show!
We have lost over 10,000 acres, two firefighters are hospitalized, I don’t know how many are homeless, lost EVERYTHING, but the party people got a good show!



The fire here is different, it called The Bobcat Fire, I don’t know why. I learned this from my friend, she lives here in my town.



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10 Sep 2020, 4:01 pm

I hope you guys are ok.


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10 Sep 2020, 4:03 pm

:cry: Stay safe everyone.


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10 Sep 2020, 4:32 pm

I'm sorry that you guys are going through this. Please stay safe! :(


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10 Sep 2020, 8:51 pm

So awful. :(
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10 Sep 2020, 9:49 pm

Doing ok here today. Still pretty smoky, but at least not the terrifying apocalyptic orange that blocks out the sun. Got some decent pictures of it yesterday but can't post them here.



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11 Sep 2020, 3:43 pm

The air quality is poor, it’s so incredibly worse. People here can smell smoke in their houses, they can get sore throats, running nose, headaches, coughing, people with asthma having a harder time breathing. I seen alot of pics of mountains on fire, sooo much fire, it’s sooo sad, I’m depressed now. I wasn’t feeling well this morning, I been coughing since yesterday, I can smell some smoke too.



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12 Sep 2020, 10:58 am

This is so sad. :(

Oregon officials are preparing for a “mass fatality incident,” as wildfires merge. 26 dead so far and dozens missing, but the death toll is going to skyrocket into the hundreds, thousands, or more. :/

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.cnn.com ... IrNm5js5e8


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12 Sep 2020, 11:09 am

My friend's daughter lives in San Francisco. and she can see the fires from their apartment. Very frightening! I hope you and everyone going through this stay safe!


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