Here in Florida, one of our friends is a burn boss. Half his job is doing controlled burns around the areas to help manage growth.
Sounds like a crazy job but what a title! “Yeah, I’m a Burn Boss.” “You wouldn’t understand.”
CraigM
5543
Yup, exactly this. The natural lifecycle of the forests here includes fire. Historically many areas had some form of fire every 10-30 years, and actually preventing that is long term more damaging and dangerous. Too much fuel builds up leading to bigger fires that kill off the trees rather than enhance them. It also leads to fires more likely to destroy homes and kill people.
It is weird to be driving by fire crews walking down the road with equipment when there is smoke and open flame on both sides, but they were in manage and contain, not extinguish mode.
And we’ve got another bad heat wave coming to NW Oregon. This time not quite as awful as the one in late June, but we’re supposed to have three days over 100F (103,107,104) in Portland starting Wednesday, and the nights* will only drop to the lower 70s.
*and by “nights” I mean 6 o’clock the next morning.
Going to be a spicy weekend up here in New England.
@Chappers and anyone else up here in the corner, take care!
Houngan
5546
It’s been quite a while, hasn’t it? Henri seems like a moderate storm, scraping the Hurricane designation, but if structures aren’t ready for it then there will probably be quite a bit of damage. Best of luck, scoot out and come back, the main thing is to limit human damage and then deal with property damage.
RichVR
5547
The last two hurricane seasons have been strange. Every storm has gone into the gulf or up the east coast. Hey, I’m not complaining, but I fear for New Orleans. That area keeps getting hit. Hard to bounce back.
Then I think about Haiti and Cuba. And I shut the fuck up.
Houngan
5548
NO is a double 20 on the dartboard, it happens but the whole thread-through-the-lower-Gulf-and-hook-North is still really rare. I’d be more worried about increasing hits on the usual suspects, like lower Florida.
On the bad side, latest projections for Henri do seem to be jigging West, so NY City may feel it.
RichVR
5549
We are prepared for a direct hit. Sort of. We have MREs and bottled water. The house is relatively new. So it has a reinforced roof and those little vents that stop wind from lifting the roof right off. We have all kinds of batteries and shit. What we don’t have is a generator, because we can’t afford a good one.
We put in a storm door on our front door because one storm the wind was blowing water under our front door. We used towels. It didn’t work.
Looks like its still on track for landfall in Rhode Island.
Looks like that changed again though, this one from Accuweather as of 8pm .
Back when I lived in the FL Panhandle I picked up a cheap generator from Harbor Freight for a couple hundred bucks. It was enough to run the fridge and a small window AC unit. That way we could still have a cold beer at the end of the day and at least one room (the bedroom) cool enough to sleep in at night.
I can also recommend this dirt cheap ($450 with free Prime shipping) 5000 watt generator on Amazon. I bought one for work a year ago and it’s still going strong. To the best of my knowledge the parts are made in China, but it’s assembled and sold in America.
Thanks bud, fingers crossed it won’t be too bad.
I think I’m on the border of the yellow and orange, hoping it won’t be too bad.
Think I’m on the border of red to orange, this is going to suck :/
We will get a lot of rain here, but it doesn’t look too bad.
I can only imagine the astronomical damages if a hurricane hit the Hamptons full-on.
I want to find out!
Currently on Cape Cod helping extended family lock down their property before shit hits the fan, and traveling back to Boston tonight so I can do the same at home before tomorrow morning.
Looks like we are in the red to dark red based on latest forecast, cripes!
Drought and fires on the west coast, flooding and hurricanes in the East. Do we all need to move to the central states? I’m sure they have their issues as well.
