Comments on: Better Prepared

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:37:05 +0000

The worst is the smoke gets pushed offshore by the Santa Anas, and then, when the wind shifts, it gets blown back on shore. Without rain to scrub the air, breathing is going to be difficult for a very long time.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:13:12 +0000

Jill, you have my genuine sympathies. A few years back, actually, several years running, Houston got the smoke from Mexican and other South American land-clearing fires; for weeks, I could not breathe because of the smoke in the air. And I was in no real danger that the fires would show up on my doorstep. Hang in there; we’re thinking of you…

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:23:04 +0000

We got smokey air today. Yummy….not.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:52:30 +0000

They still have smoke in a lot of the canyons around San Diego, Jill, but you can’t get in to do anything about it. The Santa Anas can blow thing back to life at any time.

I guess it isn’t cost effective to swap out the radials for turbos on them, Jack. I’ve flown on a couple as they were not only in airline service, the military used them [C-118] through the Vietnam era gradually replacing them with C-130s and DC-9s [C-9].

By: Jack K

Jack K — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:15:40 +0000

…bringing the whole thing full circle, I was watching CNN coverage yesterday afternoon instead of enduring the Dixon-less self-destruction of my Orygun Ducks. During one segment of the live feed, there was an aerial shot of Tanker 62 making a run. Tanker 62 is a converted DC-6 air tanker owned by Butler Aviation in Redmond (that place 60 miles to the north) and was probably the aircraft I heard winging south the other day…

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:59:33 +0000

I think the locusts are coming before any precipitation. Most of the State is one dry lump of fire food.