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Offline NUKE

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« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2003, 12:02:07 AM »
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I've seen pictures of it on the prime time news here and in Britain, you know it's bad when it makes it onto the news here. So many people have lost their houses.

I'd love to be a tanker pilot and do some good. Someone pray for rain.


So many homes lost, terrible fire. I was In Tucson again yesterday and the fire had gone over the top of Mt Lemmon and down the other side.

If you guys new how beautiful that area is/was, you would be even more sickened by the whole thing.
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« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2003, 06:40:26 PM »
Another update.

The fire is still burning. They think they have a handle on it and will stop it before it takes out more than 60,000 acres. It looks like the town of Oracle is going to be ok but that is more due to the wind shifting and the area that burned 2 years ago that is in the direct line of the fire.

So far the tally is over 350 buildings, mostly homes and cabins. The REALLY good news is that there have been no fatalities and no serious injuries.

The mountain will recover but not in anyone now living's lifetime. This was a "sky island", an isolated mountain that ranged from high Sonoran desert to Alpine with major stands of fir trees. Some of the species of plants were unique due to the isolation from similar habitat. From Tucson you could go from a stark desert to an alpine ski area in one hour. Now they are really concerned that the coming "monsoons" will wash large amounts of topsoil away before the ground can be reseeded. This is a real loss to this area.
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« Reply #17 on: June 29, 2003, 10:39:09 PM »
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The forests are going to get thinned out one way or another.  By the Forest Service or by burning themselves flat.  :(


Let Weyerhauser thin the forest... as God and Gifford Pinchot  intended.
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« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2003, 10:37:00 PM »
Just reported that the fire is out, after 84,000 arcres of prime forrest, and hundreds of homes burned.

Now we have another BAD fire in the White mountains, more that doubled in siz in 1 day to 16,000 acres. Something like 15,000 people evacuated.

This new fire is near last year's 468,000 acre inferno and is completely out of control :(
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