Ozarks Burning

[Terrierman]

2 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

Dirty air here too Jeff. Like we are being sandblasted.

I was outside last night with a good light looking for the cat.  The stuff in the beam of the light was impressive.  Hard to imagine what a 1930's dust storm must have been like.

[oneshot 1]

I was reading about Mack's Creek seems the professionals still haven't learned. 

Use to be you go to a fire and Forestry would hand you a Leaf Rake and say go get it.

Now days stay back we are professionals. That is what they told me last time and said they wouldn't be able to save my house. 

I'm like BS me and the wife went set backfire around our house and barn and saved them. 

Then we go up on the highway they was just standing there. I asked the Chief why they wasn't setting backfire? Oh the highway will stop it.

Wind blowing 40-50 MPH. Fire makes a wind of its own. I'm setting there listening to the fire coming seen it come to the highway and keep going. Fire Crew had me take them ahead of the fire.

Couple years ago they had one get away. I told the Chief shouldn't of let it get a third of the way. Well them were my men. Well they didn't know what they were doing. 

oneshot 

[oneshot 1]

Remember at the Farm smoke was so bad you couldn't see the house 20 foot away. 

One night had fire all around just set out with a few Adult Drinks and watched.

Forestry thought they would be smart and use dozer to cut Fire Line. Talked with the guy running the dozer. Said it scared the something out of him back in there,thought several times it was going to turn over. 

I've been in a few real Dust Storms out West it is something else.

oneshot 

[Quillback]

Drove over to Wally World, saw that the redbuds are starting to pop.  Seems early.

[Dutch]

They are always going good around Forsyth in late March.

[ness]

When I was a senior in college I needed one more class for a biology minor so I took Prairie Research. You had to be a senior and have a bunch of prerequisites, and it was known as an easy A.
 

We worked on reestablishing native prairie on a plot of ground south of Lawrence, KS. We cut out trees, planted native grasses, etc. In the spring we were tasked with burning a few acres on the north edge of the tract. Well, the wind picked up and changed direction and we ended up burning something like 90 acres.
 

The five of us, armed only with wet burlap bags, just couldn’t do it. LFD finally got there and got it out. No structures were in immediate danger but it could have been much worse if they hadn’t showed up. 

The area eventually became The Baker Wetlands, in case anybody here knows where that is. 

[BilletHead]

3 hours ago, Quillback said:

Drove over to Wally World, saw that the redbuds are starting to pop.  Seems early.

    Some were really colored up in Oklahoma Monday. 

[Terrierman]

1 hour ago, ness said:

When I was a senior in college I needed one more class for a biology minor so I took Prairie Research. You had to be a senior and have a bunch of prerequisites, and it was known as an easy A.
 

We worked on reestablishing native prairie on a plot of ground south of Lawrence, KS. We cut out trees, planted native grasses, etc. In the spring we were tasked with burning a few acres on the north edge of the tract. Well, the wind picked up and changed direction and we ended up burning something like 90 acres.
 

The five of us, armed only with wet burlap bags, just couldn’t do it. LFD finally got there and got it out. No structures were in immediate danger but it could have been much worse if they hadn’t showed up. 

The area eventually became The Baker Wetlands, in case anybody here knows where that is. 

If you haven't been there, you cannot imagine what Santa Ana wind is like.  This is rough.  Santa Ana is tough.  At least they seemed that way in 1971 when I was stationed at Camp Pendleton.  Fighting grass fire with a flak vest will lighten it right up.  

Wind and fire are something to behold.

[jdmidwest]

Funny, I was thinking about how the Dustbowl Sucked too. SEMO today in New Madrid area.  Been choking on sand and dust all afternoon to come home to idiot cable crew that could not read dig right markers and cut water lines again.  Second time this month.  Power flickering from ice storm lines that are still weak.  Going to Poplar Bluff tomorrow to survey more tornado damage.

[oneshot 1]

55 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

Funny, I was thinking about how the Dustbowl Sucked too. SEMO today in New Madrid area.  Been choking on sand and dust all afternoon to come home to idiot cable crew that could not read dig right markers and cut water lines again.  Second time this month.  Power flickering from ice storm lines that are still weak.  Going to Poplar Bluff tomorrow to survey more tornado damage.

My wife has to go with FEMA someplace on Tornado stuff.