Looking to escape the wildfires in Oregon

[MechAndy]

I agree with you 509.

[rkcarguy]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

OMG, I'm agreeing with rkcarguy!
I don't know if WA, or western WA at least, has the problem CA and OR do, of dead trees scattered through the forests,due to drought and/or bark beetles. Sometimes those trees are in locations where it would be expensive and very difficult to access and remove them, but there are plenty that could have been removed easily, as anyone driving north/south on I-5 could see for the last decade or two. It seems to be a budget matter: the Forest Service and Park Svce have had their budgets cut under certain *cough* administrations bent on funding tax breaks for people who don't need them. The result is super-heated wildfires and hundreds of thousands of people left homeless or accommodated in motels after wildfires rip through their communities.

Such a tragedy lol

Yes many of our mountain passes are full of beetle kill evergreen trees, some accessible some not so easily. Known as blue pine, this lumber grain is streaked with bluish stripes and beetle holes and its actually quite "in" with all this weathered/reclaimed fashion in home decor. It will all go up in spectacular fashion at some point, sadly. It could easily be processed and replanted with good results.
While we do have our fires, WA does fare better than California and Canada, but we still get the smoke unfortunately.
What I found, was that California was not using their federal fire prevention money for actually preventing fires. The state was diverting it elsewhere, the greenie groups and state dept's were getting lawyers and suing each other over removing a single tree grown up in the power lines, and so on, so that was why Trump cut that budget.

[rkcarguy]

Dang, the wildfire smoke is really rolling in today in the Bellingham area. We are at unhealthy to very unhealthy on the AQI.

https://www.iqair.com/us/air-quality...ington/whatcom

Great site here that shows the AQI #'s, fire locations, and wind direction. There's that outflow I was talking about earlier in this post.

[xPlorer48]

Originally Posted by rkcarguy

Dang, the wildfire smoke is really rolling in today in the Bellingham area. We are at unhealthy to very unhealthy on the AQI.

https://www.iqair.com/us/air-quality...ington/whatcom

Great site here that shows the AQI #'s, fire locations, and wind direction. There's that outflow I was talking about earlier in this post.

Yes, the sun and moon are red. The smoke did roll in heavy this afternoon. There are several fires just east of Mt. Baker plus south of Concrete and near Leavenworth. We are staying inside and when we do go out to walk pups or get mail, we wear masks and hustle up the driveway. Our crazy neighbor is out mowing his lawn.

[CalWorth]

There is a lot of smoke on the Olympic Peninsula today. There was a fire on Hwy 104 last night as I was returning from Seattle.

[MechAndy]

It is smoky still.
Yesterday it got worse as the day went on.

How bad was the fire on 104?
Where was it by?
Thanks.

[CalWorth]

Originally Posted by MechAndy

It is smoky still.
Yesterday it got worse as the day went on.

How bad was the fire on 104?
Where was it by?
Thanks.

Near Sandy Shores. Traffic stopped then opened to one lane so I couldn't see much other than charred ground, smoke, about 10 firefighters, lots of WSDOT trucks. Couldn't find any info

[rkcarguy]

Its bad today, AQI is 190-200+ depending on exact location. I was woke up early to a little ache in my lungs and a headache from it. My kids are saying there is ash falling out of the sky in Bothell.
My grandmothers home has a little peek-a-boo view of part of B'ham bay and I-5, can't see anything except smoke today.

[mayfair]

It got to 298 in Snohomish County not far from the Bolt Creek fire:

https://www.kuow.org/stories/less-sm...from-overnight

[509]

Here is the solution...good luck with your politicians.

https://californiasaf.org/2022/03/24...paper-camp-70/