I have heard several reports of wildfires over the last week or so.
If you are near this region and hear of a wildfire close to your area, don't take chances- If it may not hit you, collect several buckets of water around your house to use if the flames get too close. If the fire gets too close for comfort, evacuate immediately. Red Flag Warnings are nothing to mess with.
-Andrew
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Thank you for putting a post on this mess out.
Strong tstms, if we can only get cape values a little higher, could rescue many folks in the east late this week into early next week. Most of the fires continue to burn. Hopefully we get a few heavy shwrs tommorow. Next week has the potential for decent rain.
Wow. Please keep us updated. My son is stationed out of Camp New River on the east coast. You think they are safe since they are back from the middle east but I know how bad this can get. I have worked with a lot of firemen in the past, myself as an EMT for ten years.
Lighter note: here in Ft. Wayne, I was going to mow last night but could not bring myself to do it in the snow flurries. Just didn't seem right :)
I live in NJ. 2 of the fires appear to be arson. Right now i think they are safe. Today has weaker winds and higher humidities. Congratulations on the snow!!!!!!!!!
Alice: I want to thank you for your service as being an EMT. I have such a high respect for people who go out there in that line of work. I also want to thank your son for making such sacrifices for this country. He is a hero. It's pretty odd having such a warm winter and snow in April!
ERN WX: That's horrible- who would think to purposefully start fires? It disgusts me. Keep yourself safe.
I was a volunteer actually and we did nothing compared to what they can do in the field today. But I still have strong interests and professional duties related to employee safety and disaster planning, so I think that's why I am so interested in learning here at this site. That, and the earliest, most accurate forecast. I can still remember the cashier at Walmart who laughed at me the weekend before the ground hog day storm last year. He told me there was no one locally talking about a storm for the upcoming week. I just laughed right back and told him
I couldn't agree with him more.
Yeah, the Groundhog Day blizzard was absolutely incredible. I haven't seen anything like it in my life. I really do appreciate you and your son's services, and also your patronage (as well as everyone else's) to this blog. Thank you very much.
Andrew, have you read about the blizzard of '78? That's the worst I have ever been through. I remember using a snow brush to find the roof of my car. Fort Wayne was pretty much closed for 2-3 days. There were still piles of melting snow around the city in July.
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