On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 11:21 AM Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> wrote:
> ...This past few weeks has been very difficult for California and the Bay > Area in particular....forests all over the West vulnerable...We had > employees evacuated due to fires burning....air quality has been > horrendous... =============================== The situation in the areas near and around the fires in California is dreadful, although apparently improving some in the past days. My daughter-in-law is a grad student at UC Davis (long way from Watsonville, but threatened by a different fire); her apartment complex was on evacuation alert for two weeks. The air was so full of smoke that they couldn't run the AC, with daytime temperatures of 104 degrees. And they were relatively fortunate, because the eastern edge of the fire that was threatening them eventually was controlled, and the fire moved northward. The smoke from that fire reportedly streamed east as far as Indiana. There are fires in spots all the way from Bakersfield to Mendocino, an area as big as some states. Much of California is a huge patch of dry tinder, for the reasons Wayne pointed out in his post, and any lighting strike, any sparking power line, any cigarette butt can set off a blaze that threatens life and property on a mass scale. Viewed in perspective, the delivery schedule of the K4 is a minor issue compared to the widespread havoc that these fires have engendered. 73, Tony KT0NY ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
