Pacific North West - Excessive heat warning issued

[goeduck]

This is very concerning. As Oosik says, not a pleasant picture.

 

[oosik]

There is a tiny up side to all this heat/dryness/hot winds, etc. Nothing is growing - everything is tan/dying and turning to dust.

Simply running my lawn mower or tractor in this weather condition concerns me. No need to and just one potential source is shut down.

It is not a relaxed time - The other day I stopped at a neighbors, a couple miles to the north. Taking pictures of his old "iron wheeled tractor". He told me of a fire just West of his place. That makes it just a couple miles North of my property. This was the first I heard of it ............

 

[Jchonline]

There is a tiny up side to all this heat/dryness/hot winds, etc. Nothing is growing - everything is tan/dying and turning to dust.

Simply running my lawn mower or tractor in this weather condition concerns me. No need to and just one potential source is shut down.

It is not a relaxed time - The other day I stopped at a neighbors, a couple miles to the north. Taking pictures of his old "iron wheeled tractor". He told me of a fire just West of his place. That makes it just a couple miles North of my property. This was the first I heard of it ............

Thats how it goes. A few weeks later your place looks like this. The part that is cleared was all completely burnt up…fir stand. Not what I would call healthy (a good bit of windthrow and down timber with high density), but it went up like a tinder box last September when we had a really dry spell. Have it all cleared now, getting friend to bulldoze the stumps then I will seed it and turn into a meadow like the right side of the Aspen grove. We live in fire country…and Mother Nature rules. We are just glad we only lost about 4 acres of our 47 In the mountains. It could have been much worse.

 

[goeduck]

I should cut the Doug fir trees next to my house.

 

[Molalla1]

I should cut the Doug fir trees next to my house.

I had a DF and a pine close to my barn . . . took them down last year.

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

"The combination of drought with high temperatures is the real news. Ground water is tapped out, and a million wells may go dry this summer."

Spring for domestic water supply here has been dry for 1 year and 3 months, last time it dried up was 47 years ago. Have 3 other springs on property that have dried up also. Last time this happened we had large snow fall events during winter that got the springs running again. Hoping for snow and rain.

 

[oldballs]

Sorry to hear of your woes from Mother Nature.

Is it too controversial to ask if you that live there believe this is just a cycle of nature or if it is a result of mankind's presence.

May all of you be safe.

Mike

 

[oosik]

Well - oldballs - for sure it is a cycle of nature. Is it a total result of humans being on the planet - no. But, I do believe that man is helping speed it along.

BTW - it's ten degrees cooler here this afternoon - 81F. But we have a pesky wind out of the SW that's taking more moisture out of everything.

 

[Diggin It]

Flooding in AZ, MO, IL, MI, OH and a few other places. I'm sure they'd all love to send water.

 

[dirttoys]

Flooding in AZ, MO, IL, MI, OH and a few other places. I'm sure they'd all love to send water.

Maybe some of the folks in Europe as well.

I feel for you guys, and it helps me not to ***** when we get 4 or 5 days of rain in a row.

All the best,

ed