More of the fire
May 14, 2022 16:31:58 #
These were taken with a zoom lens on 29 April from Las Vegas, NM, where I was evacuated to. It came close to town. Apologize for the blown out areas.
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May 14, 2022 17:24:02 #
JohnnyDW
Loc: Richmond and Sunshine Valley British Columbia
NMGal wrote:
These were taken with a zoom lens on 29 April from Las Vegas, NM, where I was evacuated to. It came close to town. Apologize for the blown out areas.
Yikes! Scary! Hope you and loved ones stay safe Barbara.
We are just waiting here for it all to start again this season and with a record snow pack in the mountains,
flooding too.
Johnny
May 14, 2022 18:14:19 #
May 14, 2022 21:25:26 #
ABQMikee
Loc: Albuquerque, NM
Been watching the news daily from Albuquerque. These fires are truly a disaster, and the wind simply won't slow down. Hope you did not lose everything. I am trying to figure out why the USFS started a "controlled" burn this time of the year.
May 14, 2022 22:16:10 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
I’ve participated in a number of controlled burns. No matter how well planned and orchestrated, there’s always the possibility of the unexpected or unplanned. Sometimes nature throws a curveball with an unpredicted change in wind direction. There are so many things to plan for. Large fires can create their own wind currents. Hollow trees that catch fire act like a chimney, chuffing out sparks like a steam locomotive. Fire travels fast uphill than downhill. Carbon in the smoke can cause power lines to send lightning bolts to the ground.
Decades of fire suppression has eliminated those small cool fires every few years and replaced them with the once in a century monster fire that devastates lives and ecosystems. People build houses in places that were open country. Those areas burned every few years but who cares when wasteland burns? Certainly not the media. When that same area is wall to wall houses and another natural fire comes along, it’s a disaster. Note that no matter what happens, be it fire, rain, snow, wind, drought, flood or whatever, if humans are not affected, it’s just a natural ecological event. When the same thing happens but humans have built a house in the middle of it, suddenly it’s a disaster.
Decades of fire suppression has eliminated those small cool fires every few years and replaced them with the once in a century monster fire that devastates lives and ecosystems. People build houses in places that were open country. Those areas burned every few years but who cares when wasteland burns? Certainly not the media. When that same area is wall to wall houses and another natural fire comes along, it’s a disaster. Note that no matter what happens, be it fire, rain, snow, wind, drought, flood or whatever, if humans are not affected, it’s just a natural ecological event. When the same thing happens but humans have built a house in the middle of it, suddenly it’s a disaster.
May 14, 2022 22:29:21 #
May 15, 2022 05:38:25 #
NMGal wrote:
These were taken with a zoom lens on 29 April from Las Vegas, NM, where I was evacuated to. It came close to town. Apologize for the blown out areas.
May 15, 2022 07:58:50 #
NMGal wrote:
These were taken with a zoom lens on 29 April from Las Vegas, NM, where I was evacuated to. It came close to town. Apologize for the blown out areas.
This is scary andd fire season has just begun. #2 is awesome capture
May 15, 2022 08:20:02 #
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May 15, 2022 09:03:44 #
DougS
Loc: Central Arkansas
Dramatic, and scary! And disastrous! Nature teaching us lessons... Hope you have not/do not lose anything! We experienced a house fire, it is never a good thing to experience...
May 15, 2022 09:09:27 #
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