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271752 | Tony Blanks <dynnyrne@i...> | 2020‑09‑10 | Spare a thought for the Happy Camper |
Friends I was just having a look at the current National Sitrep from the National Interagency Coordination Center in Boise ID: https://www.nifc.gov/nicc/sitreprt.pdf and saw this right at the top of the list of northern CA fires: "* Slater, Klamath NF, USFS. IMT 2 (CA Team 10) mobilizing. Five miles northeast of Happy Camp, CA. Timber. Extreme fire behavior with crowning, long-range spotting and wind-driven runs. Community of Happy Camp threatened. Evacuations, area, road and trail closures in effect." The interpretation of the first sentence is Slater, (fire name) Klamath NF, (National Forest) USFS. (US Forest Service responsible for suppression operations) IMT 2 (USFS Incident Management Team #2 will take charge of the response on arrival) I have just pinged Scott, but I reckon he will be busy right now. Tony B Hobart, Tasmania |
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271753 | Peter McBride <peter_mcbride@b...> | 2020‑09‑10 | Re: Spare a thought for the Happy Camper |
That's not good.... Thanks Tony. |
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271754 | Dragon List <dragon01list@g...> | 2020‑09‑10 | Re: Spare a thought for the Happy Camper |
nifc heat map shows the fire got a few blocks from him over 12 hours ago. nothing since, though it might update and be bad. fingers and everything else crossed. bill felton, ca just say “i’m still not fully back home after 2 weeks of evacuation from the fires in our valley.” On Wednesday, September 9, 2020, Peter McBride |
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271755 | don schwartz <dks@t...> | 2020‑09‑10 | Re: Spare a thought for the Happy Camper |
Authorities are reporting 150 homes destroyed at Happy Camp and 1 deceased, but not identified. There is further information including video linked below. It's not pretty. https://www.siskiyoudaily.com/story/news/2020/09/09/slater-fire- updates-wednesday-fire-near-evacuated-happy- camp/5757366002/">https://www.siskiyoudaily.com/story/news/2020/09/09/slater- fire-updates-wednesday-fire-near-evacuated-happy-camp/5757366002/ Let's just hope he's still with us. Don On 2020-09-09 6:44 p.m., Tony Blanks wrote: > Friends > > I was just having a look at the current National Sitrep from the > National Interagency Coordination Center in Boise ID: > > https://www.nifc.gov/nicc/sitreprt.pdf > > and saw this right at the top of the list of northern CA fires: > > "* Slater, Klamath NF, USFS. IMT 2 (CA Team 10) mobilizing. Five miles > northeast of Happy Camp, CA. Timber. Extreme fire behavior with > crowning, long-range spotting and wind-driven runs. Community of Happy > Camp threatened. Evacuations, area, road and trail closures in effect." > > The interpretation of the first sentence is > Slater, (fire name) > Klamath NF, (National Forest) > USFS. (US Forest Service responsible for suppression operations) > IMT 2 (USFS Incident Management Team #2 will take charge of the > response on arrival) > > I have just pinged Scott, but I reckon he will be busy right now. > > Tony B > Hobart, Tasmania > -- anarchist - One who disregards laws and social norms as a form of rebellion - One who promotes chaos and lawlessness; a nihilist. - One who resents outside control or influence on his or her life, in particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control. moral nihilism - Amorality, the belief that morality does not exist, that no action, thought or behavior is morally right or morally wrong. |
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271756 | "John M Johnston (jmjhnstn)" <jmjhnstn@m...> | 2020‑09‑10 | Re: Spare a thought for the Happy Camper |
Anyone have a physical address for Scott? The video shows devastation. John “There is a fine line between hobby and mental illness.” ________________________________ From: OldTools |
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271757 | scott grandstaff <scottg@s...> | 2020‑09‑10 | Re: Spare a thought for the Happy Camper |
Hi Guys I'm fine. Thank you for the kind thoughts. Really means a lot to me. My house was miraculously spared. It was hell like I never saw. (and I thought I knew hell) Most of my oldest friends are homeless. As my friend Dean says, 50 years gone in an hour. We had basically "made it". Its after September and was a perfect year. Well not counting a worldwide plague and stirrings of civil war in America. But as far as fire we all thought we were on easy street. One random spark on a mountaintop, in a freak dry wind storm, and a monster was born in a matter of minutes. I was upwind. It happened directly in front of me across the valley on the ridge. I was upwind. But 1/3 of my town was not only downwind, but in a narrow valley that made a natural wind tunnel. In one day the fire took whatever it wanted and wandered over 25 miles and into Oregon. One day It was moving like a prairie fire only in full standing forest. I just got power back so this is the first I have had lights or a computer in days. First time I ever really wanted a smartphone. (I have a little "calls only" cellphone and wifi does the rest usually.) Its 6am and I just got power back, Now there is no water. And I didn't even have "no water" on my bingo card! But they are building a fire camp in the field below me and guys are pouring in. Even though the giant fire has moved on, I have 50 square miles of glowing cinders and spots are going to keep popping up until it rains hard. yours scott -- ******************************* Scott Grandstaff Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca 96039 scottg@s... http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/ http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html |
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271758 | "yorkshireman@y..." <yorkshireman@y...> | 2020‑09‑10 | Re: Spare a thought for the Happy Camper |
Wow - What a relief! Something else that America doesn’t want to be No 1 in. Climate change is going to be death by a thousand small things for our children. fires, floods, species extinction, plague - heck - we even had a plague of locusts recently. And still leaders of countries - not just the US, are denying it. I’ll not be here to see it through, thankfully. But I’m thankful that Scott hasn’t gone early. Keep on taking care out there.. Richard Wilson Yorkshireman in apocalyptic mood in Northumberland, where we are short of rain - but the sea is still full (and getting fuler as the ice melts! |
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271760 | don schwartz <dks@t...> | 2020‑09‑10 | Re: Spare a thought for the Happy Camper |
Hi Scott Glad to hear you made it through that. I was thinking of you recently while slowly repairing some plane totes in-between other projects. I had tried cyano glue a couple of times without success, so I dug around on the hard drive and found a copy of your published instructions on tote repair. I trimmed the top of the tote parallel to the bottom with neanderbuddy and clamped the new wood to it for 30 hours or so using Titebond III straight off the saw, thanks to Mr. Record. It has stood up to shaping with rasps, files, scraping and sanding, and I'm now attempting to match the colour using my favoured gradual approach of many dilute coats of water-soluble aniline dyes. It's coming along. Don't want to be rushing into anything! Many thanks to you for sharing your ideas and methods. Don On 2020-09-10 7:48 a.m., scott grandstaff wrote: > Hi Guys > I'm fine. Thank you for the kind thoughts. > Really means a lot to me. > > My house was miraculously spared. > > It was hell like I never saw. (and I thought I knew hell) > Most of my oldest friends are homeless. > As my friend Dean says, 50 years gone in an hour. > > We had basically "made it". Its after September and was a perfect year. > Well not counting a worldwide plague and stirrings of civil war in > America. > But as far as fire we all thought we were on easy street. > > One random spark on a mountaintop, in a freak dry wind storm, and a > monster was born in a matter of minutes. I was upwind. It happened > directly in front of me across the valley on the ridge. > I was upwind. > But 1/3 of my town was not only downwind, but in a narrow valley > that made a natural wind tunnel. > In one day the fire took whatever it wanted and wandered over 25 > miles and into Oregon. One day > It was moving like a prairie fire only in full standing forest. > > I just got power back so this is the first I have had lights or a > computer in days. First time I ever really wanted a smartphone. (I > have a little "calls only" cellphone and wifi does the rest usually.) > Its 6am and I just got power back, > Now there is no water. > And I didn't even have "no water" on my bingo card! > > But they are building a fire camp in the field below me and guys are > pouring in. Even though the giant fire has moved on, I have 50 square > miles of glowing cinders and spots are going to keep popping up until > it rains hard. > yours scott > > -- anarchist - One who disregards laws and social norms as a form of rebellion - One who promotes chaos and lawlessness; a nihilist. - One who resents outside control or influence on his or her life, in particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control. moral nihilism - Amorality, the belief that morality does not exist, that no action, thought or behavior is morally right or morally wrong. |
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