Have driven past and around Mt Shasta a number of times. Up 'til now, I always thought of it as a razor sharp, snow capped beauty. I now have a very different image to deal with. ;( Looking at it jogs my memory. I can feel it in my throat and it and makes my eyes burn. I posted a shot taken around 8 or 9 AM, during that event, that showed the sun as a dull orange ball.
Jack --- On Mon, 2/9/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO - Speaking of Smoke... > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 10:09 AM > Not great photographs - two - one looking toward Mt. > Shasta, one taken while > driving back toward Medford Oregon. Taken in June 2008. > > http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/smoke.htm > > In June, I headed up toward Scott Valley, Siskiyou, where > I have visited > several times. My father grew up there, I research family > history there, and > visit second cousins. It's a beautiful rural area. > > The NIGHT before I arrived, I was driving late, was the > FIRST thunder storm > that started the forest fires in California. I was going > to drive and arrive > late. But, on the road, I saw the storm. It looked and > sounded, quite > frankly, like a small war -- like a bombing raid. And it > was CLOSE. Rather scary. So > I stopped short and stayed the night in Dunsmuir. > > I visited a second cousin in the valley the next day, then > the valley > started filling up with smoke. He and his friend told me we > were not in any danger, > but the smoke got heavy, quick. So I quit the valley -- it > looked like the > end of the world. The next day I thought the skies in > Oregon would be clearer > and started driving toward Portland. But they got worst the > more I headed > toward Portland, so I drove back. But not to the valley. > The smoke had blown > north, also, it was so dense, I figured Oregon had fires of > its own. > > The air up there, northern northern California, is as clear > as any in > California. Usually very clear and very pretty. Normally, > from the highway, you can > see Mt. Shasta quite clearly. > > That fire started in Happy Camp, a remote area in Scott > Valley, the first > forest fire. But it took about two and two and a half > months to put out. (I > kept checking fire maps on the Net.) Of course, the locals > didn't help that > much. It's a thinly populated area, the fires was in a > hard to reach area, and > it's an economically depressed area -- they were > making money renting/selling > port-a-potties, trucks, tractors, and water to > firefighters. (Or so one of the > town leaders told me. :-)) > > And I swear our area, CC County, most of California, has > been 10X smoggier > since the fires. > > Marnie :-) > > > --------------------------------------------- > Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be > censored. > > **************Nothing says I love you like flowers! Find a > florist near you > now. > (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000001) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
