Blah blah blah fire blah blah blah
Irradiated by Stingray
Thanks, all, for the well wishes. This morning reports that we’re up to 3% containment, which beats the hell out of 0. Our place has not burned, and currently looks rather unlikely to. We’re getting bored with looting, so hopefully we’ll be able to get back to bitching about poorly done science articles and giving politicians more specific instructions regarding where they may stand in order to die in a fire as they so need to*.
Fire doesn’t seem to have gotten closer than about 4-5 miles as the crow flies from our place, and the fire chief has good things to say about the fuel levels between current fire location and same. Unless Murphy decides we need some extra pounding, there’s a decent chance we’ll be home by the weekend, especially if that containment number goes up significantly in the next day, day and a half. There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell it’d be fully contained by then, but maybe y’all will get your news reports of me on the roof with a bottle of whisky and a garden hose after all.
*Dear elected officials: I know you must be seen to be Doing Something. However, when you go rushing up to be On Scene, unless you are in the executive branch and have some authorization to mobilize assets, the only Thing you are Doing is Being In The Way. Get the fuck off our mountain, Congressman douchebubbleLujan, or if you won’t do that, do us some real good, drink a lot of water, and just ask the nearest person in the funny jacket to point you towards the heat.
Update: Latest reports indicate that the 3% containment is a containment line between the fire and our part of town. Heading home soon.
June 29th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Glad to hear that the Nerd Ranch isn’t likely to burn. Hope that you are home soon. I’m missing the rants. And, truth to tell, the lengthy disquisitions on how Scientist X (or more likely JournoDork Z) has totally misrepresented the data to show red is green, and is likely to be killed next time he attempts to cross a street.
June 29th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Good to hear. I’m currenlty enjoying the “ZOMG!!11 WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE IN RADIOACTIVE FIRE”
June 29th, 2011 at 4:45 pm
I’m relieved- for the moment anyway!
Yeah, Alb news says a lot of what RobertM describes. Jeez- anybody remember the last one, with all those mushroom clouds?
So far we have just suffered bad air from the Wallow fire not too far upwind, thought it was getting uncomfortably close to our friend John Davila’s ranch (high forest and grassland in Cartoon County, n of Reserve). No rain here yet…
$landingzone= Fanta Se?
June 29th, 2011 at 5:33 pm
See, I like to think of this fire as a precious natural resource that we’re wasting by not having Congress stand in the middle of.
June 29th, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Other direction, Steve. Don’t think you’ve met this friend yet.
June 29th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
If you want the congresscritter to stand in the fire, you need to tell him it’s candy.
http://www.darklegacycomics.com/294.html
June 29th, 2011 at 7:01 pm
perlhaqr: The EPA won’t let ‘em, as burning a Congresscritter would release a plume of highly-toxic and -teratogenic material large enough to make Chornobyl look like a bottle rocket launch. To dispose of Congresscritters properly we need to encase them in a lead-lined concrete sarcophagus, then shoot them into the sun.
June 29th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
The Atomic Nerds looted my house and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
Great to hear you guys and your casa are still OK.
June 29th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Glad to hear the good news. Hope you’re home soon.
June 30th, 2011 at 6:05 am
I’m still waiting for the hoards of fireproof, radioactive, bubonic-plague-bearing zombie groundsquirrels to come marching out of the LANL. That’s what the newsies are worried about, right?
Or was it the Missouri River tsunami that’s about to clobber Ft. Calhoun and unleash hordes of radioactive ninja carp. . . I can never keep my media disasters straight.
June 30th, 2011 at 10:44 am
Yep radioactive smoke… one of your neighbors is apparently ‘concerned’ enough to call it in… Glad y’all will be back home soon, and back to normal. Trips for fun are one thing, evacs are something TOTALLY different.
June 30th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Glad to hear you are doing well under the circumstances, and that you and your furry friends have found refuge!
July 1st, 2011 at 5:13 am
Elected officials are good to have during emergencies. They remind of how foolish we can be in allowing pinheads to be part of our society. It’s a new point of focus and brings thoughts of how to solve the problem during whatever catastrophe can eliminate evidence.
July 1st, 2011 at 9:04 am
Oh shoot! I don’t check in for a few days and all goes up in flames.
Glad you are safe, all 4 of you. I don’t think I’d be able to “evac” in 20 min… Even though I have no pets and live in 1-bdrm apartments instead of a big house.
Keep us posted.