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    Fire moving south again due to a favorable wind. Downgraded from GO to SET. Seemed to have dodged a bullet for now. Thanks for the positive waves
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    Fire up to 63k acres. Spent the last couple of days hauling the irreplaceable shit out of the cabin and hauling water to the cabin. Fire has been heading right for us. Thought it might jump the river and be on our side yesterday, but the planes, helicopters and fire fighters beat it back. If you look at the map my cabin is about 3 miles east from that big bend on Highway 3 heading south. Now it’s just a waiting game. If the shit hits the fan I’ll load up the few things I have left to transport out, get the dog in the truck, spend as much time as I can dousing the cabin with the water I’ve hauled in then bug out.
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    Y’all saw a lot of country. The roads are much better now. Nearly everything is paved. You’ll find some 10 to 100 miles stretches of dirt highway still, but it’s getting rare.
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    Ip to 51k acres. Moving East. Not good. Heard another old timer just lost her place.
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    This is the view from the highway turnoff to our cabin. Fire is about 8 miles away.
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    Fire is up to almost 40K acres burned. Still pushing mostly South which is good for me. Our area got downgraded from “set” to “ready” evacuation wise.
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    Made that drive myself, but not in a Corolla. Kudos to you and your wife. Beautiful country out that way.
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    That's a strange one to me. He's even at UAF. Fairbanks had a shit ton of snow this year too. Maybe he means statewide and not just the Interior. I don't know. Whatever the conjecture is, this is the worst fire season in several years. It's good for the forest, bad for the folks living in it.
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    We made a similar joke when she got the job. We say she's on the retard crew.
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    Been with her for 21 years for a reason : )
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    Lightning is the major cause. Pure stupidity is the other. People truly are morons...especially the tourists. For some reason their brains go full aggy when they get up here.
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    Absolutely no prior experience. She was reading in the paper about the firefighter shortage expected this year. Then she heard basically the same story on NPR and decided to sign up and take the classes online. She passed her pack test (carrying 45 pounds of gear 3 miles in 45 minutes) and got her red card as they call it. This qualified her to start training. She wanted to go the aviation route. Not many women in that line of work so she basically got a job immediately. She wants to be on the line fighting a fire on the ground at least once just to see what it is like, but the aviation thing came along so quickly that she couldn't pass that opportunity up.
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    Appreciated Had a buddy that lost just about everything last night. He and his wife live about 12 miles out off the road. They are old school. Can't get to their place in a vehicle, you have to either atv or snowmachine out. He traps during the winter and then they get their PFDs. That's all the money they have coming in. Since the woods are scorched there will be nothing to trap out his way for years. I really don't know what they are going to do to live.
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    I don't know what info you were reading, but the Denali Borough had record snowfall this year. Like 3 to 4 times what we normally get. It surprised me how quickly things dried up though. I thought we'd be slogging to our cabin through the mud into July. I've seen the mud last way longer with way less snowfall. The prevailing theory is that we had so much snow on the ground that when the really cold temps hit (30 to 60 below) it insulated the ground and the ground didn't freeze hard like it usually does in winter so the ground was able to absorb the extra water quicker. Makes sense to me. We've also had very little rain so far this summer, couple that with the warm temps (it's been in the 70's and 80's in my neck of the woods with one day reading 92) plus all the lightning storms we've been experiencing it was only a matter of time before something close got set off.
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    Clear fire is up to 23000 acres. It’s mainly pushing South now, which is good for me. Bad for the folks that live that way though. Lots of homestead cabins out that way. On a side note, my wife got her red card this year to be an emergency wild land firefighter. She got a job in Fairbanks in the aviation section. She’s filling the planes that are fighting the Clear fire with retardant. It’s kinda personal to her now. Her goal is to get on a helicopter crew to do bucket drops before the end of season.
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    Mostly freight, but the summer season has a lot of folks traveling by rail. They have glass top cars so people have unobstructed views. I’ve never done the trip, but I hear it is awesome
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    Thanks for the well wishes. Part of living in the woods we basically go through every summer. Summer is my least favorite season because of the fires, bugs, road construction, constant daylight, and tourists.
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    Fucking fires man. The smoke is ungodly right now. If anyone is interested, here are a couple of links to see how many fires are burning: https://blm-egis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=32ec4f34fb234ce58df6b1222a207ef1 http://smoke.alaska.edu/current_fires.html The Clear Fire (Fire 346) is about 8 miles from our cabin. We had ash dropping out of the sky yesterday. Air quality is for shit.
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    The Nenana
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    Fire season is in full effect. Smoke is rolling in.
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    Got lucky this weekend and stumbled upon a garage sale where a guy was moving from Alaska to Wyoming. Because of Canada's assault weapon ban you can't transport .223/5.56 through Canada to the US. He was selling his stash cheap. $5 for a box of 20. I scored 400 rounds for $100. He limited buyers to 20 boxes in order to spread the wealth. He must have had close to 5000 rounds on the table to sell.
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    The flip side of this conversation: Wife: What time do you want dinner? Me: Whenever you want is fine with me. Wife: Why can't you ever help me and just make a decision? Me: Fuck me, Walter.
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    FYI on the Honda EU2200i: They run like shit in temps below 20 above zero unless you get the cold weather conversion kit. I had an old Honda 2000 and that thing ran like a champ at any temp. The new 2200's are over engineered. The carbon monoxide detector is overly sensitive and will shut the generator down unless it is very well ventilated. Like in the open ventilated, not even under an overhang or up close to a side wall unless there is a good breeze.
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