AdmiNirvana

It has been almost a week, and the situation out / up here has gotten slowly, and progressively worse.   Most of the fire seems to be focused on the west side of town now, and the smoke has cleared out of the valley for the most part, giving us a view of what is going on up in the higher elevations.

That is pretty much what we have been seeing.   It’s pretty scary how close a few are getting to town, but in general Redding is not nearly densely forested as the surrounding mountains.  So nothing to worry about, yet.

Some good news is that the majority of fires on the east side have been contained or extinguished altogether.

More thunderstorms are in the forcast for the weekend.  Great.

This past Saturday morning I went up to Benton to take one of my last lessons and instead watched a nasty lighting storm roll through.    Mix lightning and dry terrian, and you can imagine what happens next.

We have about 50 or so major fires going on in the highlands around us, and all the smoke is settling down into the valley around Redding.   It smells like BBQ outside and the Sun has turned an eerie red-orange color; you can stare at it without even squinting.

One of the Mt. Lassen fires is a few miles away from my parents place in Shingletown.