Meanwhile, as everything around me BURNS... (UPDATE Thurs evening in replies)

[FirstLight]

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In Tahoe, waiting for Caldor Fire to make a run at us. This thing is truly giant, over 125K acres...

Two more fires broke out in nearby Calaveras and Amador Counties, one near Grass VAlley and another one south of us I think... I cant fucking keep up anymore really. I feel like it's long term disaster trauma. Im a wreck.

Got a couple days of low winds but high temps coming for the weekend. Smoke will be settling, maybe still bad here. Im astonished that the hotels are even allowing people to come when this is so on edge. I am considering telling them to fuck off friday and bug out over to my folks' house in the Carson Valley. Got the trunk half packed, got a couplke more things to finish up tomorrow, then I am ready.

I dont want to leave, after I fought so hard to get this house... but I also dont wanna sit here and try to get out at the last minute, cuz we only have one lane roads and one of those if not 2 are closed. (Hwy 50 definitely and Hwy 88 past Kirkwood possibly)

but guh...I go between "i dont need to worry, it's too far" to "The world is burning so dont take any chances"

Climate change, drought, and poor forest mgmt is gonna come bite us in the arse.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And in CA the cons cant wait to steal the governors office so they can reverse EVERY SINGLE

pro environment, pro science against Covid thing we have going. If that happens I will be under attack and i will hope others understand we cant stand for it.

[Budi]

3. K & R

CA is the rarest jewel still missing from the RW crown.

💙🍃

[FirstLight]

13. I think they are gonna have to find the $ to re-stage their coup...

a LOT of ElDorado Co backwoods are Trumpers and now they are all evaced so they cant get their ballots in the mail

not just here but ALL over the state! lol

[SheltieLover]

2. So sorry to hear you are in this mess!

Got your important papers & pix? Vax card?

[Auggie]

4. Smart to be prepared

Do it now while you can think it through, and rationally. Best wishes.

[Budi]

5. 🌻

Am so very sorry.
Offering all I have from here is strength to you & peaceful days again someday soon.

Please do update us as you can.

[2naSalit]

6. I have taken to...

Since I have a storage unit a few miles away, putting my "bugout" gear in there with my "bugout" vehicle. I just started this out of necessity as my new housing is on top of a hill that could go up fast and take all these prefab units just as quickly. There are two streets off the hill and I'm way in the back of the line that would form and then only three place to cross the RR tracks before I can get to a safe location. I have a plan and am ready if fire gets closer than it is around here. We still have a couple months before fire season is over.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

7. I can't imagine how you can sleep

So sorry for what you are going through.

[Polly Hennessey]

8. Go see your folks in the Carson Valley. The air

quality is probably better. I have family in King's Beach. They feel like a sandwich caught between the Dixie fire and the Caldor fire. I am 25 miles south of the Caldor fire and we have plenty of hazy smoke. Nothing like Lake Tahoe, though.

[MissB]

9. Please leave while you can

Stay safe. You are more important than your house or the things inside of it.

It truly is a monster of a fire! Dh was supposed to drive down there this weekend but isn’t now. Too much fire all the way around.

[Hekate]

10. Damn I am sorry. I feel like you should just pack up and go -- especially since you have to use ...

… a one-lane road to get out.

I understand completely; I love my house too — it was a long time coming, and within months after we moved here we had to pile out with the clothes on our backs. I grabbed the dog and my purse and threw all our prescriptions in a basket, and my husband grabbed his giant binder of important documents. Then I took the 11 year old Honda and he took the 30 year old Camry and we headed out …

Our neighborhood was spared. I so hope yours will be as well.

[canetoad]

11. Don't leave it

Until it's too late and the decision is taken out of your hands.

Best wishes, thinking of you.

[FirstLight]

12. UPDATE: got everything ready, waiting for next shoe to drop...

The current evac order is at Echo Summitt, warning finally here in the Basin about 3-4 miles away...

The next "line" if they ,ove it forward, will be about a mile away, when that turns yellow, Im out.

dealing with a teen who is waiting to relocate for fire school and waiting on a friend to come get him, so he's not wanting to leave and I am not leaving him with no vehicle.

Told him to tell friend to pick him up in the valley, cuz he wont be able to get in here...

[MissB]

15. Glad you're ready to go

Stay safe!

[Mr.Bill]

14. As a two-time evacuee, my advice is

sit down and make a list of what you need to take with you while you have the time to do that. This will make packing and loading much less chaotic. Fill your gas tank. When they issue an advisory evacuation, go. Don't wait for the mandatory. There will be less traffic and things will work in a more orderly fashion then. If you have a place to go with people you know, let them know you are coming.

Stay safe, stay calm and best of luck to you.

[FirstLight]

16. Check! already there!

got everything literally packed ecept for essentials we will grab as we walk out the door, 2 bags each

Pets are prepped and cat will be given CBD so he sleeps in the car lol

Folks are in the valley and ready for arrival, we have been talking every 2 hours or so


ALSO got code Red alert set up on all cell phones, and the yellow warning line for the next level is still a mile away, but that is my go to time.

thank you we are hoping to not have to go there....

[msfiddlestix]

17. Feels like our wonderful state is burning all around us. I'm so sorry and I totally get what you're

feeling. you may feel insane, because the situation is insane. It's not you. I was in such a state three years ago when we had fires raging all around the county and beyond, felt like it was bound to close in our little community. The smoke alone was unbearable, and made it worse to think clearly. I was walking in circles trying to figure out what to grab before hitting the road, knowing everyone else in the area was going to be on the road at exactly the same time. fill up the tank, and go where? everywhere was fire.

gotta grab and go.. before the roads close. so really, don't take any chances.


stay safe.

[ecstatic]

18. Sorry. I hope everything works out well.

I don't know how you guys do it. Between the wildfires, earthquakes, and potential tsunamis further north. Beautiful but terrifying.

[FirstLight]

19. the smoke is narly AF 637 api now!

visibility down to 1/4 mile at least...

ive had 2 nosebleeds today

pro-tip...use painter's tape tp seal doors and windows!
also made a rube-goldberg air filter with filters and a box fan

glad I got everything packed, now we can just GO!

sleeping tonight will be a challenge tho