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Jun. 28th, 2011 07:57 pmGuess whose state is totally on fire? THIS GIRL'S, THAT'S RIGHT.
When I left this morning, it was mostly clear - a little hazy around the horizon, but that's all. But around 3.30 my boss at the engineering firm called me over to the empty room across the hall and HOLY SHIT WHERE DID THE MOUNTAINS GO. I'm not even exaggerating; the skyline was just a solid wall of smoke until it turned into clouds. The visibility is better now that I'm back at my dad's house, but it's still pretty gross and we're avoiding going outside at all costs.
As of now, we're not in any actual danger aside from the poor air quality, and neither are my mom and the boyfriend, although they had a couple of scares last week down their way and the entire Bosque is closed for the immediate future. We're just at the epicenter for all the smoke from three different wildfires, of which the largest is the Los Alamos Fire.
This is crazy even by NM standards. The news reports I've seen are saying now that it's bigger than the devastating fire they had in 2000, which I still remember. It's already burned more than 60000 acres, and it's not even remotely contained - right now they are trying to keep it from spreading into the canyons in the ski areas up there. Los Alamos was evacuated last night - that's at least 12000 people currently displaced, although as far as I can tell the fire hasn't encroached too badly into the residential areas yet. Still.
This article from MSNBC about the fire danger to nuclear material at Los Alamos labs seems to be mostly scare-mongering, at least. None of the guys at work seemed all that worried, and that's what they do for a living, so I guess they would know. Actually, one of the guys in the office today was there because normally he works at LANL and he couldn't go up there. So I think we probably won't all turn into mutants any time soon, which is good since I don't look good in skin-tight leather and unstable molecules.
Like I said, as if the massive fire in Los Alamos weren't enough, there's a second fire in Bandolier, and a third in Lincoln County that has burned about 15000 acres so far. Plus, of course, we're still getting some of the smoke from the fire in Arizona. I know wildfires are pretty much par for the course in June, but this is getting ridiculous.
And people are still arguing over whether or not there should be a fireworks ban this weekend. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.
When I left this morning, it was mostly clear - a little hazy around the horizon, but that's all. But around 3.30 my boss at the engineering firm called me over to the empty room across the hall and HOLY SHIT WHERE DID THE MOUNTAINS GO. I'm not even exaggerating; the skyline was just a solid wall of smoke until it turned into clouds. The visibility is better now that I'm back at my dad's house, but it's still pretty gross and we're avoiding going outside at all costs.
As of now, we're not in any actual danger aside from the poor air quality, and neither are my mom and the boyfriend, although they had a couple of scares last week down their way and the entire Bosque is closed for the immediate future. We're just at the epicenter for all the smoke from three different wildfires, of which the largest is the Los Alamos Fire.
This is crazy even by NM standards. The news reports I've seen are saying now that it's bigger than the devastating fire they had in 2000, which I still remember. It's already burned more than 60000 acres, and it's not even remotely contained - right now they are trying to keep it from spreading into the canyons in the ski areas up there. Los Alamos was evacuated last night - that's at least 12000 people currently displaced, although as far as I can tell the fire hasn't encroached too badly into the residential areas yet. Still.
This article from MSNBC about the fire danger to nuclear material at Los Alamos labs seems to be mostly scare-mongering, at least. None of the guys at work seemed all that worried, and that's what they do for a living, so I guess they would know. Actually, one of the guys in the office today was there because normally he works at LANL and he couldn't go up there. So I think we probably won't all turn into mutants any time soon, which is good since I don't look good in skin-tight leather and unstable molecules.
Like I said, as if the massive fire in Los Alamos weren't enough, there's a second fire in Bandolier, and a third in Lincoln County that has burned about 15000 acres so far. Plus, of course, we're still getting some of the smoke from the fire in Arizona. I know wildfires are pretty much par for the course in June, but this is getting ridiculous.
And people are still arguing over whether or not there should be a fireworks ban this weekend. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.