{"id":658,"date":"2020-08-23T22:05:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T05:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=658"},"modified":"2020-08-28T22:40:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T05:40:49","slug":"news-california-is-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/08\/23\/news-california-is-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"News: California is on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wildfire information from CalFire, shared from their Twitter feed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last weekend there was a thunderstorm, a PROPER one, the first we’ve had in more than a decade, easily. It impressed me. I thought it was novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It started more than 600 fires here in California.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stepping outside when the smoke moves in midday is like standing over a campfire. Directly<\/em> over a campfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is… distracting. I know several people living near-ish to the fire; the two that are closest are the most modest about it, but are quite vigilant and have their things packed if they need to evacuate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a distraction from constantly read about the pandemic to constantly read about the fires, but another disaster was not exactly the distraction I was hoping for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some favorite resources for fire monitoring, in the order I rely on them:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Weather Service Bay Area on Twitter<\/a> (twitter.com\/NWSBayArea): red flag warnings, photos, video links<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CalFire on Twitter<\/a> (twitter.com\/CAL_FIRE\/): includes posted reports, evacuation orders, and information sharing across federal, state, and local fire authorities. If you don’t like Twitter, you can also go to https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fire and Smoke Map from fire.airnow.gov<\/a>: the source of the graphic below, filled with primary-colored geometric shapes indicating sensors and smoke readings. It’s also worth noting that airnow.gov<\/a> is great for air quality information generally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SUBSCRIPTION TEXT ALERT TOOLS<\/span>:<\/em> I receive text alerts from my city & county emergency services organizations (alertsf.org (Everbridge)<\/a> and SF72.org<\/a>), which are timely and useful, if frequent. If you don’t know your county emergency text alerts agency and you are here in California, you can look it up at calalerts.org <\/a> (though the Stanislaus County link is wrong, so click here<\/a> instead).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a week. Image from fire.airnow.gov during a relatively good air quality moment in the evening for my region. I did say relatively!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend there was a thunderstorm, a PROPER one, the first we’ve had in more than a decade, easily. It impressed me. I thought it was novel. It started more than 600 fires here in California. Stepping outside when the smoke moves in midday is like standing over a campfire. Directly over a campfire. This … <\/p>\n

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