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UPDATE: New details emerging on responses to fires across western North Dakota

Sixty MPH winds helped push wildfires across the prairie in Western ND on Sunday. Thankfully, only one person lost their life, and through the efforts of firefighters (Local, Tribal, State, and Federal agencies cooperating) the loss of buildings was limited.

 Images, links, and reports here:

https://www.kfyrtv.com/2024/10/05/crews-battling-fires-western-north-dakota-amid-high-winds/

Additional links at the site above.

Fires like these are huge and move quickly. one of these traveled over 10 miles (not your average grass fire), and they have been known to burn for 20 or more miles before being brought under control. Several small towns were threatened.

With that in mind, we dodged a bullet, and while there will be some hardship due to loss of forage for cattle, this is not anywhere in the same class of devastation that the hurricanes are wreaking down south. I just thought it worthy of mention.

« Last Edit: October 07, 2024, 05:23:46 am by Smokin Joe »
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Showing burn scars from fires in satellite image.
Keep in mind the lake (partly) shown there has more miles of coastline than California.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZOfi77awAAAb4r?format=jpg&name=small

From east to west the area shown is about 120 miles wide.
« Last Edit: October 07, 2024, 04:14:55 pm by Smokin Joe »
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Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis