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I was getting smoke from somewhere this morning when the wind was blowing 15mph out of the north Really big fires smudge up everywhere; I'll never forget watching the smoke from the Chelan complex spill over the passes in- was it 1995? We were in San Francisco eleven years ago when there was a big fire east of Sacramento that spilled smoke down the river and out in to the Bay, weirdest thing to see from the air.
That fire above Sacramento (2008? or 2007?) was burning very close to my brothers home in Foresthill along the American River Canyon. He was not too affected by the smoke, though the fire got uncomfortably near. He is a California Hwy Patrol officer and got some awesome photos of the fire while patrolling the closed roads. It was my sister and her family in Lincoln, just bellow Auburn on the edge of the Sacramento Valley that got most of the smoke. It was soo thick that they had to drive with their lights on, and no one was allowed out doors. It was so dark in the daytime she said she could not even see to the end of her block, and she lives on a short block! We ended up taking her kids up here for 3 weeks just so they could get some outdoor time. My little nephew who already has severe asthma was having a difficult time breathing and he was up here for a few days before it no longer sounded like he was struggling gor each breath. Sadly their 98 year old great-grandpa who lived nearby passed away the first week they were here. He went to the hospital with breathing difficulties and developed pneumonia which he never recovered from. The doctors would not blame the smoke and said he died due to his body shutting down from his age! B.S. Just a few weeks earlier he was staying with my sister while his daughter (whom he usually lived with) was on vacation. He went for long walks along the Lincoln Slough by himself every day while he stayed there. (He was a strong, old Norweigan Farmer who had lived most of his life in North Dakota. They moved from the family farm in the 1980's. It's way out in the middle of nowhere somewhere near the Canadian border - never could sell it so it still sits there abandoned).
It may sell now with the oil rush that is going on up there.
I was getting smoke from somewhere this morning when the wind was blowing 15mph out of the north Really big fires smudge up everywhere; I'll never forget watching the smoke from the Chelan complex spill over the passes in- was it 1995? We were in San Francisco eleven years ago when there was a big fire east of Sacramento that spilled smoke down the river and out in to the Bay, weirdest thing to see from the air.
That fire above Sacramento (2008? or 2007?) was burning very close to my brothers home in Foresthill along the American River Canyon. He was not too affected by the smoke, though the fire got uncomfortably near. He is a California Hwy Patrol officer and got some awesome photos of the fire while patrolling the closed roads. It was my sister and her family in Lincoln, just bellow Auburn on the edge of the Sacramento Valley that got most of the smoke. It was soo thick that they had to drive with their lights on, and no one was allowed out doors. It was so dark in the daytime she said she could not even see to the end of her block, and she lives on a short block! We ended up taking her kids up here for 3 weeks just so they could get some outdoor time. My little nephew who already has severe asthma was having a difficult time breathing and he was up here for a few days before it no longer sounded like he was struggling gor each breath. Sadly their 98 year old great-grandpa who lived nearby passed away the first week they were here. He went to the hospital with breathing difficulties and developed pneumonia which he never recovered from. The doctors would not blame the smoke and said he died due to his body shutting down from his age! B.S. Just a few weeks earlier he was staying with my sister while his daughter (whom he usually lived with) was on vacation. He went for long walks along the Lincoln Slough by himself every day while he stayed there. (He was a strong, old Norweigan Farmer who had lived most of his life in North Dakota. They moved from the family farm in the 1980's. It's way out in the middle of nowhere somewhere near the Canadian border - never could sell it so it still sits there abandoned).
It may sell now with the oil rush that is going on up there.
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