The Coffee House

[Jeff G]

Our air quality in Central Cal right now is atrocious. We had 28 out of 31 days in July with temps between 100 and 106 F. The other three days dipped down to 98 and 99 degrees. So far August has been the same.

With the heat and the smoke from all the fires it has been miserable outside, what good is a swimming pool if all you do is cough while your in it. I am so done with summer.

Feeling cranky, really wanted to float in the pool tonight. (Insert pouty face here). Heat didn't used to bother me but this year it's getting to me.

 

[smoke665]

@Gary A. Knowing how much even a few hundred acres can taxed the stamina of a FF, I can't even imagine a fire that big.

 

[ceemac]

I can't imagine the stress the people must be going through because of the speed the fires are moving. That stress is going to be with them a long time. It will be years until a helicopter is just a helicopter and the smell of smoke is just the neighbours BBQ.

 

[Gary A.]

Our air quality in Central Cal right now is atrocious. We had 28 out of 31 days in July with temps between 100 and 106 F. The other three days dipped down to 98 and 99 degrees. So far August has been the same.

With the heat and the smoke from all the fires it has been miserable outside, what good is a swimming pool if all you do is cough while your in it. I am so done with summer.

Feeling cranky, really wanted to float in the pool tonight. (Insert pouty face here). Heat didn't used to bother me but this year it's getting to me.

It’s no picnic down here. We hit 115 and 116 in one of the heatwaves. The Central Valley is always hot in summer. This is the first year we’ve run the A/C in July. Usually, we only run the A/C for two weeks in late August. Smoke is a killer.

 

[Jeff G]

Gary, I feel for you, those temps are extra bad when they are so far above the norm.

 

[SquarePeg]

Strange really as growing up in Australia it did not bother me, and many times it would hit 100f or over, but like I have said in the past it is a different heat.

I feel that the sun is much stronger now than years past. I used to love to sit in the sun at the beach but now I have to be under my umbrella and covered with sunblock or I fry.

bringing 'em back for the new school year! @limr be careful hanging out in those downtown ice cream parlors, its a tough crowd in there.


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I am so fired.

Just the one petticoat today? For shame!

 

[Gary A.]

Gary, I feel for you, those temps are extra bad when they are so far above the norm.

Gary thinks it s bad for everybody out here. Gary is surprised that the smoke has reached the Central Valley. Smoke wears you down.

 

[Gary A.]

@Gary A. Knowing how much even a few hundred acres can taxed the stamina of a FF, I can't even imagine a fire that big.

Gary has covered quite a few large fires, but nothing like the last year’s Thomas Fire (281,893 acres) or this years Mendocino Complex Fire (283,800 and counting). The smoke generated by a large fire is physically devastating to the body. Even with good equipment, high end respirator, googles, et al, after a few hours of moving in thick smoke, your body starts to shut down. You feel as if you’re moving in a sea of molasses, every movement is literally a painful struggle, a fight against total and complete mental and physical exhaustion.

The smoke generated by these monster fires has to be potentially deadly beyond reason.

 

[Fujidave]

Morning all, another hot stuffy start today so took Susie out early and the forecast says it will cool down then ( Heard that before too ).

 

[davidharmier60]

Thunder last evening but nothing came of it. Tuesday. Another day another 65 cents after taxes.

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[smoke665]

The smoke generated by these monster fires has to be potentially deadly beyond reason.

All smoke can be deadly. We were always taught that the toxicity of a brush fire was less so, unless the concentration was so high that the CO2 displaced the oxygen, and there was no long term effect from breathing. Unlike structure fires where the presence of vinyl, plastic, chemicals and solvents created highly toxic gases like phosogen, cyanide, etc. Your working distances from the support vehicle made using SCBA's impractical anyhow.

 

[limr47 1]

Strange really as growing up in Australia it did not bother me, and many times it would hit 100f or over, but like I have said in the past it is a different heat.

I feel that the sun is much stronger now than years past. I used to love to sit in the sun at the beach but now I have to be under my umbrella and covered with sunblock or I fry.

I feel like the sun has gone postal and is trying to murder us all.

bringing 'em back for the new school year! @limr be careful hanging out in those downtown ice cream parlors, its a tough crowd in there.


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I am so fired.

Just the one petticoat today? For shame!

Hey, pick any one of those rules and I guarantee I will have broken it by the end of business hours Well, except the first one. And I guess the one about getting home late will be broken after business hours.

But, y'know. Still.

 

[JonA_CT]

Nothing like heading to the woods, moving a heavy cooler awkwardly, and having to return to civilization for a shot of Toradol in the ass, a cocktail of pharmaceuticals in pill form, and the suggestion that I should return home rather than sleeping on the ground for the next 4 days.

(The PA also laughed, and said that he’d be headed back to camp too)

 

[Jeff G]

Gary, I feel for you, those temps are extra bad when they are so far above the norm.

Gary thinks it s bad for everybody out here. Gary is surprised that the smoke has reached the Central Valley. Smoke wears you down.

We get the smoke from the Sacramento area and the LA area, then it just sits in the central valley. I am thankful we are not in the direct path of the fires.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary, I feel for you, those temps are extra bad when they are so far above the norm.

Gary thinks it s bad for everybody out here. Gary is surprised that the smoke has reached the Central Valley. Smoke wears you down.

We get the smoke from the Sacramento area and the LA area, then it just sits in the central valley. I am thankful we are not in the direct path of the fires.

But you also get some fine vino from Lodi, Clarksburg and Livermore.