Wednesday, June 14, 2006

I work in the second building from the bottom lower left corner of that building.

I have to say this really scared the shit out of me. When I walked out of the building and saw the plume of smoke towering into the sky it once again made me realize how instantly one's life can change. Relative to what I do for a living, this is the only place I can work in this town - period. I would have to leave the state. There are other places in this state but there is no way in hell I'd live in those places.

The fires are contained, I think. But, they are still active. There were actually three different fires yesterday. One of them happened to be right next to where I work - shown in the pictures.

I used to live in Colorado. A couple of years ago they had a fire called the Hayman fire. (Started near Hayman lake or something like that) As one point the fire was spreading at a rate of a mile a minute or 60 mph, I think. Trees just exploded into flames. Yesterday I saw this happen I tried to ride my bike one way out of here only to find one of the road blocked. I could see the fire at that point and there was a tree by the edge of the road, the whole thing; burst into flames all at once! I couldn't believe what I was looking at.

Then as I rode through town, it was kind of like a ghost town. I went to my therapist's house because we were going to have group therapy but she was packing up her stuff to vacate. The wind was blowing away from her house but she was worried about a wind shift. It kind of disturbed me emmensly. This with all the other crap that is falling down I mean going on in my life.

1 comment:

Floyd Hill said...

Fortunately the wind was blowing to the north. They do a lot of fire prevention work around here like picking up the forest floor and cutting down and removing dead trees. And it paid off. We had really bad winds yesterday. That was the real scary thing for me. I used to live in Colorado and The fires there were horrendous. There was one fire called the haymen fire where the forest was burning at a mile a minute. (60 mph) you can't out run it at that point. I was shaking yesterday. It was awful. I mean I was really scared. My car is broke down and all I have is my bicycle.

The fire is contained now. It's not out but contained.