Sorry, no stills here. Although I have thought from time to time about building a small one, but just to distill water with.
By the way, I know that everyone immediately associates illegal stills with the word 'revenooer'. But I am not sure everyone understands all the reasons why the association was made in the first place. You see, people would come from the government and say, "we're from the government and we're here to help". But the only things they were interested in was taking control of people's lives, and helping themselves to the money in people's pockets. They didn't care one whit about illegal *****. What they cared about was the lost revenue because of 'illegal' sales of that *****. They wanted 'their share' of the profit in the form of taxes and other revenue. Hence the word revenuers, or revenooers...
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Ok, the fire started on friday. Or at least my awareness of the fire started on friday. By saturday, we were to the place where I began this thread post. I was not sure if I was going to have to bug out, or not.
By saturday night all my neighbors but one had evacuated. The two of us have the benefit of personally knowing the local fire chief, and my neighbor regularly communicates with him, and many of those who have boots on the ground, in fighting the fires. Plus, we can listen to the radios. Well, some of them that are publicly available.
By saturday night, when I made that last post, the fire had barely reached Heybrook Ridge. I sat up most of that night watching for the fire to come across that ridge. Had I seen even the light of the flames at the top of the ridge, I would have bugged out. I was all packed and ready to go.
Stress doesn't even begin to describe it. Our guys were out there actively fighting it, so my neighbor and I were hearing only from the emergency services people. They were all making it sound as dire and deathly as possible. Especially the national emergency people. They had the most dire reports out to all of the news services, roads closed, etc.
And according to all of them, that fire was just on the other side of the ridge from me, and would be here any second.
Right after I made that final post, emergency services sent out a warning via cell phones to the entire county!!! Dire warning. You are about to die! Leave right now, or die. Don't even pack. LITERALLY said that.
Within a minute our guys were on the radio saying that it was not right that that broadcast was made. Not only should it not have been made county-wide, but it was wrong anyway. Besides, it would have the roadways all clogged right away, and no one would be able to do anything at all.
In about a half hour the emergency services sent out another broadcast, but were not as 'loud' about it, and said that the rest of the county should disregard that warning. It was only for people in my area... Maybe you can already see where all this is going.
They were of course way late with the second broadcast, and they DID clog the roads up with all the sheeple who dutifully panicked as they were told to, and got out there and clogged up the roads. So now the fire people are hampered in their work, to say the least.
So far this is all 6 of one, half a dozen of the other to me, because I have stayed at home.
I stayed up until after 3am watching that ridge like a hawk. heart in my throat. Then just couldn't stay up any longer. Decided that if God wanted to keep me around I'd wake up sunday morning just fine. And so I did...
Power went out shortly after 8am sunday. When I woke up after 8:30 I saw the power was off. The electric company was saying that they would have the power back on by 8:45am. Apparently a really simple fix.
Here's the deal...
The fire only barely reached the far end of Heybrook ridge. It never got any further than it was the last time we got a report from people who were actually on the ground. The national emergency services were inflating the danger. Had us thinking the fire was about to come over that ridge any second.
Sunday mid-morning, I finally got word from boots again, and knew this. So I breathed a sigh of relief. But not much of one. Because of heavy smoke. It got seriously dark, during the day on saturday. Almost nighttime dark at one point. Really dark muddy yellow light when there was any light at all. Lots of ash and burned pine needles rained on us. Here is a pic of the hood of my jeep... AFTER the wind had come up and blown away a lot of it, and there was a rain that washed a bunch of it away. This was still left, this morning...
Sunday morning it was still kind of dark, but it steadily got lighter all day until about mid day it was back to near normal, white/blue light. Even through the remaining smoke.
So, by mid day sunday, we have word from boots that the fire has been beaten back. It never got anywhere near the highway. It never came within 3 miles of my area. And had it come this way, it would still not have reached my property except by some freak occurrence
But the bureaucrats are still playing god... They tell the electric company that they are not allowed to turn the power back on until wednesday at noon. They claim there is still 8000 acres of uncontained fire. (It never reached a full 8k acres. And by that time, it was down to maybe 1k acres and was completely contained.) That the highway has been breached. Etc.
I was unaware of all this until today. I went to bed last night expecting the power to come back on at any moment. Got up this morning. Checked again with the power company to see why the power was not on yet, and found out that it would not be turned back on until wednesday noon. Because National emergency services had told them they couldn't turn it back on. (And the roads were to remain closed until then as well.)
I blew up!
My area is perfectly safe. Was perfectly safe. and will be perfectly safe.
Hundreds of people in this community, and thousands or maybe tens of thousands of people who had evacuated, and whose property was never in danger would be returning to their homes on wednesday when they were allowed back in... Only to find that they had fridges full of spoiled food. And who can afford to completely restock their fridge nowadays?
The fire chief agreed. Apparently the sheriff and the park service who he talked to, and who were manning the barricades also agreed. They started letting everyone through with the least of excuses. And the fire chief went to bat with national emergency services and the power company about all this.
Power was restored at about 4:30pm. I don't know if national emergency services relented, or if the electric company just saw the same logic of the argument that the rest of us did, and decided that since the fire chief and sheriff were on their side, to go ahead and do the fix. I'll probably never know the rest of the details.
I DO know that some rat bastidge bureaucrat sat in their office, all safe and comfy and made decisions that affected the lives of tens of thousands of people. In my opinion, instead of making decisions to help alleviate the danger, and discomfiture of the situation for the citizens, they instead made decisions that made things as dire and as bad as they possibly could for the people.
The only reason I can see for the decisions made is that they number one, want to control and manipulate as much as possible. They want to wield their power and show us peons who is boss. And number two they might think that they need to do this, to justify their own salary.
Yeah, a lot of bloviating. A lot of assumptions. And a lot of anger. And I could be completely wrong all the way across the board. I may see that, once some time has passed. But right now, I am pizzed as hell at the bastidges that made decisions that actively hurt people that they are supposed to be serving, not playing god against...
I guess I can assume this entire rant had it's real beginning with "two weeks to flatten the curve" and all the control, manipulation and fear mongering that followed the next two years...
I'll never believe or obey another bureaucrat if I can help it.
Complete idiots, to say the least, and being nice about it.
Moderators, if you want this post edited, just say so. Or feel free to do so yourself. I am still too close to this. But I can see that some might take umbrage at the assumptions at the very least.
By the way, I know that everyone immediately associates illegal stills with the word 'revenooer'. But I am not sure everyone understands all the reasons why the association was made in the first place. You see, people would come from the government and say, "we're from the government and we're here to help". But the only things they were interested in was taking control of people's lives, and helping themselves to the money in people's pockets. They didn't care one whit about illegal *****. What they cared about was the lost revenue because of 'illegal' sales of that *****. They wanted 'their share' of the profit in the form of taxes and other revenue. Hence the word revenuers, or revenooers...
~~~
Ok, the fire started on friday. Or at least my awareness of the fire started on friday. By saturday, we were to the place where I began this thread post. I was not sure if I was going to have to bug out, or not.
By saturday night all my neighbors but one had evacuated. The two of us have the benefit of personally knowing the local fire chief, and my neighbor regularly communicates with him, and many of those who have boots on the ground, in fighting the fires. Plus, we can listen to the radios. Well, some of them that are publicly available.
By saturday night, when I made that last post, the fire had barely reached Heybrook Ridge. I sat up most of that night watching for the fire to come across that ridge. Had I seen even the light of the flames at the top of the ridge, I would have bugged out. I was all packed and ready to go.
Stress doesn't even begin to describe it. Our guys were out there actively fighting it, so my neighbor and I were hearing only from the emergency services people. They were all making it sound as dire and deathly as possible. Especially the national emergency people. They had the most dire reports out to all of the news services, roads closed, etc.
And according to all of them, that fire was just on the other side of the ridge from me, and would be here any second.
Right after I made that final post, emergency services sent out a warning via cell phones to the entire county!!! Dire warning. You are about to die! Leave right now, or die. Don't even pack. LITERALLY said that.
Within a minute our guys were on the radio saying that it was not right that that broadcast was made. Not only should it not have been made county-wide, but it was wrong anyway. Besides, it would have the roadways all clogged right away, and no one would be able to do anything at all.
In about a half hour the emergency services sent out another broadcast, but were not as 'loud' about it, and said that the rest of the county should disregard that warning. It was only for people in my area... Maybe you can already see where all this is going.
They were of course way late with the second broadcast, and they DID clog the roads up with all the sheeple who dutifully panicked as they were told to, and got out there and clogged up the roads. So now the fire people are hampered in their work, to say the least.
So far this is all 6 of one, half a dozen of the other to me, because I have stayed at home.
I stayed up until after 3am watching that ridge like a hawk. heart in my throat. Then just couldn't stay up any longer. Decided that if God wanted to keep me around I'd wake up sunday morning just fine. And so I did...
Power went out shortly after 8am sunday. When I woke up after 8:30 I saw the power was off. The electric company was saying that they would have the power back on by 8:45am. Apparently a really simple fix.
Here's the deal...
The fire only barely reached the far end of Heybrook ridge. It never got any further than it was the last time we got a report from people who were actually on the ground. The national emergency services were inflating the danger. Had us thinking the fire was about to come over that ridge any second.
Sunday mid-morning, I finally got word from boots again, and knew this. So I breathed a sigh of relief. But not much of one. Because of heavy smoke. It got seriously dark, during the day on saturday. Almost nighttime dark at one point. Really dark muddy yellow light when there was any light at all. Lots of ash and burned pine needles rained on us. Here is a pic of the hood of my jeep... AFTER the wind had come up and blown away a lot of it, and there was a rain that washed a bunch of it away. This was still left, this morning...
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Sunday morning it was still kind of dark, but it steadily got lighter all day until about mid day it was back to near normal, white/blue light. Even through the remaining smoke.
So, by mid day sunday, we have word from boots that the fire has been beaten back. It never got anywhere near the highway. It never came within 3 miles of my area. And had it come this way, it would still not have reached my property except by some freak occurrence
But the bureaucrats are still playing god... They tell the electric company that they are not allowed to turn the power back on until wednesday at noon. They claim there is still 8000 acres of uncontained fire. (It never reached a full 8k acres. And by that time, it was down to maybe 1k acres and was completely contained.) That the highway has been breached. Etc.
I was unaware of all this until today. I went to bed last night expecting the power to come back on at any moment. Got up this morning. Checked again with the power company to see why the power was not on yet, and found out that it would not be turned back on until wednesday noon. Because National emergency services had told them they couldn't turn it back on. (And the roads were to remain closed until then as well.)
I blew up!
My area is perfectly safe. Was perfectly safe. and will be perfectly safe.
Hundreds of people in this community, and thousands or maybe tens of thousands of people who had evacuated, and whose property was never in danger would be returning to their homes on wednesday when they were allowed back in... Only to find that they had fridges full of spoiled food. And who can afford to completely restock their fridge nowadays?
The fire chief agreed. Apparently the sheriff and the park service who he talked to, and who were manning the barricades also agreed. They started letting everyone through with the least of excuses. And the fire chief went to bat with national emergency services and the power company about all this.
Power was restored at about 4:30pm. I don't know if national emergency services relented, or if the electric company just saw the same logic of the argument that the rest of us did, and decided that since the fire chief and sheriff were on their side, to go ahead and do the fix. I'll probably never know the rest of the details.
I DO know that some rat bastidge bureaucrat sat in their office, all safe and comfy and made decisions that affected the lives of tens of thousands of people. In my opinion, instead of making decisions to help alleviate the danger, and discomfiture of the situation for the citizens, they instead made decisions that made things as dire and as bad as they possibly could for the people.
The only reason I can see for the decisions made is that they number one, want to control and manipulate as much as possible. They want to wield their power and show us peons who is boss. And number two they might think that they need to do this, to justify their own salary.
Yeah, a lot of bloviating. A lot of assumptions. And a lot of anger. And I could be completely wrong all the way across the board. I may see that, once some time has passed. But right now, I am pizzed as hell at the bastidges that made decisions that actively hurt people that they are supposed to be serving, not playing god against...
I guess I can assume this entire rant had it's real beginning with "two weeks to flatten the curve" and all the control, manipulation and fear mongering that followed the next two years...
I'll never believe or obey another bureaucrat if I can help it.
Complete idiots, to say the least, and being nice about it.
Moderators, if you want this post edited, just say so. Or feel free to do so yourself. I am still too close to this. But I can see that some might take umbrage at the assumptions at the very least.
