Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 10 Posted July 10 (edited) Enjoying the best glass of iced tea I’ve ever had. And the fire fighters left merry two hot tubs!🤣 The fire got pretty close. 23 paces by my count. The small canyon is on my neighbor’s property about 50 yards from my driveway. It funneled the flame north like the firecrew chief told me he anticipated. And that’s where they stopped it! The only smoke in the air right now is from the Babylon fire over in Utah which is in the process of coming over the Abajo mountains and threatening the town of Monticello about 40 miles from here. Last pic is a Sikorsky Helitanker Edited July 11 by Utah Bob #35998 17 8 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted July 10 Posted July 10 Congratulations UB, welcome home! Another round of ice tea on me! 2 Quote
Gracos Kid Posted July 10 Posted July 10 So glad all is well at your homestead Bob.....Thankful for all blessings....... 1 Quote
Calamity Kris Posted July 10 Posted July 10 Glad to hear you're back home and all is well. Thank you for keeping us informed. Quote
Cypress Sun Posted July 11 Posted July 11 That's great news. Now it's time to unload the truck, have a drink and get some sleep! Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted July 11 Posted July 11 Thanks for the photos. From what I could tell from the maps, it looks like they held the line right at County Road N, which I gather is your access road. There were a few times that the overlay showing the winds made me sure it would jump the road. Those crews must have worked like Stakhanovites on speed to beat it back. 2 1 Quote
Blackwater 53393 Posted July 11 Posted July 11 Glad you’re safe and back at LBR!! Don’t drink too much of that tea!! Ya’ might drown in your own tea pee and after all of the fire and smoke, that’d be a terrible thing to happen! 🤨 🤣 3 1 Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted July 11 Posted July 11 5 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: The fire got pretty close. 23 paces by my count. Too close by 1,000 paces. 5 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: The small canyon is on my neighbor’s property about 50 yards from my driveway. It funneled the flame north like the firecrew chief told me he anticipated. And that’s where they stopped it! St. Florian was working overtime for them. 4 Quote
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 11 Author Posted July 11 4 hours ago, Cypress Sun said: That's great news. Now it's time to unload the truck, have a drink and get some sleep! Unload, no. Drink, yes! 3 Quote
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 11 Author Posted July 11 50 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said: Glad you’re safe and back at LBR!! Don’t drink too much of that tea!! Ya’ might drown in your own tea pee and after all of the fire and smoke, that’d be a terrible thing to happen! 🤨 🤣 2 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Thanks for the photos. From what I could tell from the maps, it looks like they held the line right at County Road N, which I gather is your access road. There were a few times that the overlay showing the winds made me sure it would jump the road. Those crews must have worked like Stakhanovites on speed to beat it back. Heroes!❤️ 3 Quote
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 11 Author Posted July 11 5 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said: Best of news! Any damage? 🤔 None other than a lot of trees cut down. Not a problem. 3 2 Quote
Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 Posted July 11 Posted July 11 Excellent, great news, glad you are OK but that was too close. 1 Quote
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted July 11 Posted July 11 That was a close one. Happy it worked out. 1 Quote
John Kloehr Posted July 11 Posted July 11 So glad you had a defensible space. The crews made good use of it. Welcome back! 3 Quote
Cypress Sun Posted July 11 Posted July 11 Soooo....do you get to keep the new above-ground pool or what? 1 2 Quote
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 12 Author Posted July 12 BTW, sorry about that feeakishly huge selfie🙄 They came and took away my hot tub this morning.☹️ Still on “prepare to evacuate status”. 96° and a hot wind today. 2 2 3 Quote
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted July 12 Posted July 12 3 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: BTW, sorry about that feeakishly huge selfie🙄 They came and took away my hot tub this morning.☹️ Still on “prepare to evacuate status”. 96° and a hot wind today. Better than a selfie IN the hot tub. Glad everything's okay. 3 Quote
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted July 12 Posted July 12 Hey, Bubba, when this is all over you're welcome to come down here to get away from it all for a....uh! Wait! We're on fire, too. Not a really big one right now, but every day there seems to be a new one someplace near by. Stay in touch. 2 Quote
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted July 12 Posted July 12 42 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: BTW, sorry about that feeakishly huge selfie🙄 They came and took away my hot tub this morning.☹️ Still on “prepare to evacuate status”. 96° and a hot wind today. Don't you still have to fix your swamp cooler? 🤔 Quote
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 12 Author Posted July 12 1 hour ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said: Don't you still have to fix your swamp cooler? 🤔 Yup. The motor arrived today. Also have to get the new stove set up. And replace some spoiled food. It never ends. 4 1 Quote
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 12 Author Posted July 12 2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Hey, Bubba, when this is all over you're welcome to come down here to get away from it all for a....uh! Wait! We're on fire, too. Not a really big one right now, but every day there seems to be a new one someplace near by. Stay in touch. Dang fires are everywhere! 3 Quote
Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life Posted July 12 Posted July 12 The Good Lord was looking over your shoulder UB. Quote
Three Foot Johnson Posted July 12 Posted July 12 The "Bucksnort" wildfire of 2000. I was surrounded by the fire, so by the time it got to my house, the fire front was pretty small, but still it's pretty scary to see all that flame just a few yards off your wooden deck... and cedar sided house... in every direction you look. I had probably 50+ firefighters camped out here, two school buses for moving the fire crews around, twenty brush trucks, pumpers, and tankers staged, a fuel tanker, and a Skycrane helitanker. When the P3 retardant bomber would make a run, the tools hit the ground and they all pulled out cameras. I asked one of them why, I mean they see this every day throughout the summer. He said they send them in to "Wildfire" and "Wildland Firefighter" magazines, and if one gets published, they get paid for it. OK, that makes sense. 6 Quote
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