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Ok, it's been quite a day. In my mind they have this fire contained and almost out. I'm back home in the nice house at Midpines instead of that other double wide trailer on the old John C Fremont land grant.
My place on the Fremont land grant is what was referred to as no name city in the movie called Paint Your Waggon.
My other place is referred to in that movie as Red Bluff, but is now referred to as Colorado Road on Mt. Midpines.
In modern parlance the one place I evacuated to is slightly east of No Name City in that movie, and it is currently referred to as Mormon Bar on modern maps. The place which I evacuated from is referred to in the movie as Red Bluff, It is currently referred to as Midpines.
The road I drive to get there is now called Colorado Road.
I'm from Colorado, and the soil along that road is just as red as much of the soil in Colorado the state is. Red clay deposits containing lods of Iron ore.
Not that red soil at my place, but near my place, getting to my place. My soils are not soils, they are tan bed rock, and have loads of quartz crystals in it. But to get there I have to drive though quite a distance of that red clay named Colorado.
Folks around here laugh at us red bluff people. Our teeth they say are stained red by the red water we drink.
All but me, I don't drink that red water from Red Bluff. Instead I haul water for drinking from my place on the old Fremont Land Grant. It's much better water to drink and cook with.
My teeth are not red.
Anyway that bad 4th of July fire is effectively out now. They got it out last night around about about five AM. They didn't say so in the news, in fact they still have not said so. They will sit on it for about a week before they say it's out, and that is wise for their part.
But it is out. The oldest courthouse west of the Mississippi River has been saved by the fire people.
After a bad start because firepeople everywhere were tasked to do fireworks displays here and there all over California, which hadn't even begun when this high priority fire begun.
They didn't even get strike crews in there until late last night. The Bulldozers arrived after the fire was effectively put out by the hand crews
They did get it done once they arrived. They saved the old court house which Mark Twain sat in to be a court reporter during the gold rush period. They are my heros.
I've actually sat in that very spot Mark Twain sat in all those years ago. The way I accomplished that was to go into that courtroom early when I had been drawn for jury duty. I sat in every place in that room before anyone else arrived. So I sat where he sat. I covered every possibility in the room.
The bailiff was there and watched me do it. I explained what I was doing and he laughed.
The reason I didn't post all day long, is I was doing fire related stuff all day long. I moved back to the nice house on top of Midpines mountain around noon. The power had been out for 18 hours, and the temperature was 108, That was a harsh return.
I moved my 5,000 watt generator there and fired it up. That provided the power I needed to run the houses swamp cooler, refrigerator, and freezer. That savided most of my food. It stayed cool enough. all but a half gallon of milk, for the 18 hours we were gone. Along with some other minor stuff in the fridge.
It also powered my Internet connection which I didn't have time to mess with
They finally got the power back on at 8 PM after 25 hours of it being out. I had power going after 18 hours using my 10 horse power generator.
That saved the food, all except for that a quart of mayo and two bottles of salad dressing and that milk I mentioned before.
I bought that generator used two weeks ago, it's already paid for itself.
I've learned the hard way, toss that mayo and salad dressing when it has gotten even the slightest bit warm during a fire caused power outage.
I also toss any canned beans which are in there, and any leftover yams and potatoes. This fire was very inexpensive insofar as food lost. Most fires around here ruin about 200 dollars worth of food.
It's worked out OK.
Here the old court house is threatened with fire last night:
Ok, it's been quite a day. In my mind they have this fire contained and almost out. I'm back home in the nice house at Midpines instead of that other double wide trailer on the old John C Fremont land grant.
My place on the Fremont land grant is what was referred to as no name city in the movie called Paint Your Waggon.
My other place is referred to in that movie as Red Bluff, but is now referred to as Colorado Road on Mt. Midpines.
In modern parlance the one place I evacuated to is slightly east of No Name City in that movie, and it is currently referred to as Mormon Bar on modern maps. The place which I evacuated from is referred to in the movie as Red Bluff, It is currently referred to as Midpines.
The road I drive to get there is now called Colorado Road.
I'm from Colorado, and the soil along that road is just as red as much of the soil in Colorado the state is. Red clay deposits containing lods of Iron ore.
Not that red soil at my place, but near my place, getting to my place. My soils are not soils, they are tan bed rock, and have loads of quartz crystals in it. But to get there I have to drive though quite a distance of that red clay named Colorado.
Folks around here laugh at us red bluff people. Our teeth they say are stained red by the red water we drink.
All but me, I don't drink that red water from Red Bluff. Instead I haul water for drinking from my place on the old Fremont Land Grant. It's much better water to drink and cook with.
My teeth are not red.
Anyway that bad 4th of July fire is effectively out now. They got it out last night around about about five AM. They didn't say so in the news, in fact they still have not said so. They will sit on it for about a week before they say it's out, and that is wise for their part.
But it is out. The oldest courthouse west of the Mississippi River has been saved by the fire people.
After a bad start because firepeople everywhere were tasked to do fireworks displays here and there all over California, which hadn't even begun when this high priority fire begun.
They didn't even get strike crews in there until late last night. The Bulldozers arrived after the fire was effectively put out by the hand crews
They did get it done once they arrived. They saved the old court house which Mark Twain sat in to be a court reporter during the gold rush period. They are my heros.
I've actually sat in that very spot Mark Twain sat in all those years ago. The way I accomplished that was to go into that courtroom early when I had been drawn for jury duty. I sat in every place in that room before anyone else arrived. So I sat where he sat. I covered every possibility in the room.
The bailiff was there and watched me do it. I explained what I was doing and he laughed.
The reason I didn't post all day long, is I was doing fire related stuff all day long. I moved back to the nice house on top of Midpines mountain around noon. The power had been out for 18 hours, and the temperature was 108, That was a harsh return.
I moved my 5,000 watt generator there and fired it up. That provided the power I needed to run the houses swamp cooler, refrigerator, and freezer. That savided most of my food. It stayed cool enough. all but a half gallon of milk, for the 18 hours we were gone. Along with some other minor stuff in the fridge.
It also powered my Internet connection which I didn't have time to mess with
They finally got the power back on at 8 PM after 25 hours of it being out. I had power going after 18 hours using my 10 horse power generator.
That saved the food, all except for that a quart of mayo and two bottles of salad dressing and that milk I mentioned before.
I bought that generator used two weeks ago, it's already paid for itself.
I've learned the hard way, toss that mayo and salad dressing when it has gotten even the slightest bit warm during a fire caused power outage.
I also toss any canned beans which are in there, and any leftover yams and potatoes. This fire was very inexpensive insofar as food lost. Most fires around here ruin about 200 dollars worth of food.
It's worked out OK.
Here the old court house is threatened with fire last night: