Just As We Begin There is A Fire

I was going to begin by showing you the pictures of the first gleanings for the project but pretty much everything paled and receded to the background when I got the news yesterday the land was in jeopardy from a wildfire.

It started with just 25 acres on fire caused presumably by one of the landowners out there who was burning garbage and it got away from him. I understand how this could happen but how could he have ever considered burning with a red flag warning out there? I have told myself I will forgive him today but that does not mean I don't feel like going out and giving him a piece of my mind.

But he lives out there, is probably feeling much shame, when you live in rural area's you know usually not to do something stupid, so most likely he really thought he had a handle on the burning. So I will begin my forgiveness with that thought in mind. If I find out our land burns, I will have that thought already cemented so I don't become hate filled over the loss.    

Ok  I took a break and I tried getting near our land this morning out by the property, no go, so I came back. My eyes are still watering form the smoke in the air.

There is very little information out there and no one in the news has seen fit to do a topical map of the almost 900 acres that have burned. Here is one that gives you an idea about where it is located. The orange area is the fire zone,  our land is just outside of the orange area. The red marker indicates Corkscrew Canyon Road. the dark area is formerly Long Lake, now called Lake Spokane. Ford Washington, is located west of the uppermost 231 marker on the visible map.

About a 1000 acres have burned and are burning. 43,560 square feet are in an acre 1000 acres works out to 43560000 square feet. A square mile is equal to 27,878,400 feet and that works out to about 1.5625 square mile burned. There is about 6 square mile in that triangle. There is no word where the fire is exactly, just somewhere within that triangle. It started somewhere near 231/ 291 per the news.

Honestly, it was probably stupid to have driven out, there is nothing I could have done, I got no more information than even our local news stations. I could see the billowing smoke that got larger and larger as I neared the area. All I did was build more fear inside. Drive out there did make me feel like I was doing something but it was very unaffected.

This is quite frightening, stressful and just....well I can't think of the words this morning having our one asset being threatened by fire is worse than one of those fatalistic movies where the earth is blown up by volcano's or all earth ends as we know it.

Obviously I'm a basket case right now.

Someone throw some prayers my way, I can't seem to settle down enough to get a good one going.

Blessings my peeps.

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