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chavasaurus

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:01:25 +0000 from nómada

And here we go. Fire season is upon us.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/6/16/point-fire/

#Sonoma County
#🔥

chavasaurus

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:49:29 +0000 from nómada

Now installing
Watch Duty app.

Bill Statler

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:52:33 +0000 from Bunny of Doom

Yuck, I hate fire season. We've got a few good ones going up here in Washington state too.

chavasaurus

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:12:08 +0000 from nómada

Eek! Good luck over there!

Folks around here are are definitely hyper-aware. Understandable with significant devastation due to fires in recent years.

We're still relative noobs around here but the tension is palpable.

Bill Statler

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:32:13 +0000 from Bunny of Doom

My wife and I lived "next door" to you in Marin County in the 1980s. I guess there were small fires sometimes, but I don't remember thinking much about them. Not sure if we were young and foolish, or if things really have changed that much. Probably both...

chavasaurus

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 01:09:41 +0000 from nómada

Not necessarily foolish (but maybe!).

Now we have near-instant info relayed via internet + effects of global climate shift. So... very different time/place.

chavasaurus

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:02:40 +0000 from nómada

And now we have a much more red sunset than I've seen in a while.

Smoke in the distance.

Bill Statler

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:11:28 +0000 from Bunny of Doom

"In the distance" is a good thing.

If you don't have enough stressful apps in your life yet, PulsePoint has been useful for us. It reports all local fire/ambulance calls, and you can select specific incident types (e.g. "Vegetation Fire") to trigger an audible alert. Looks like Sonoma County is covered. There's also a web version at https://web.pulsepoint.org/