Pacific Northwest - Forrest Fires

[turnkey4099]

Sheesh, you got twice the rain we did, only 0.63 inches just north of Woodland.

The diversity in downpour has been pretty surprising it seems like any where near the Columbia getting a lot less. I hope the ground is holding up in those burn areas, bad combo to go from so little rain to so much.

Somewhere around 1/2 inch around here (SE Wa). Pour ed yesterday morning and dripped most of the day. I got 'drizzled" out of my wood cutting expedition. Gave it up after 1.5 hours, jus too miserable working wet but YAY FOR THE RAIN!!

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Thunderstorms. There was a small Cat 0 tornado outside Lebanon that ripped the roof off of a few dairy barns. The cows are fine, and so are the people. There was also a waterspout off the coast at Newport, but it didn't come ashore. The Chetco Bar Fire is 53% contained, which is huge progress since last week. I-84 has reopened, though they are nervous about landslides on the burned over land. Same deal on 138, and there are some flash flood warnings out, but I think they are overdoing it. They may roll a few boulders down on the highway, but the ground has to be saturated to get a major slide started, and we're about a foot of rain away from that.

 

[oosik]

It rained all day yesterday and eased off toward evening. I could hear it raining last night. The ground is soaking it up like a sponge. Hope some of this rain is helping with the fires.

 

[mapper]

We have had about a half to three-quarters of an inch in the last few days. My Cat does not like the cool and damp conditions and has been whining about it . I was picking about 10# of cantaloupe a day, so much that I was taking 30-40# twice a week to our local food bank, since it cooled off none have ripened.

 

[bcp]

Rain gauge this AM is 2 3/4 inches since noon Sunday. No runoff except a bit on gravel roads and driveways.

Bruce

 

[oosik]

Its another cold, damp morning here. No smoke now for the fourth day in a row. I see by checking InciWeb that the really big fires (Okanogan-Wenatchee Nat Forrest) are continuing to be further contained. I think we may be on our way out of the woods.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I guess I was mistaken. I saw on the news that I-84 is scheduled to reopen "soon."

 

[oosik]

You are correct Larry. Checked the Eagle Creek fire(Colombia R. gorge) on InciWeb and DOH opened traffic both ways on I-84 yesterday.

 

[bcp]

Photos of the Eagle Creek fire damage.

New aerial photos reveal severe burn damage from the Eagle Creek fire | OregonLive.com

Bruce

 

[Larry Caldwell]

The North Umpqua complex is 74% contained, and there is 4 days of rain forecast starting tomorrow night. There won't be enough rain to put it out, but hopefully it will moisten things enough to stop the spread.