-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Thank you - fire update
- From: Keyboard Cowboy <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tech Rose - LoveBytes <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:30:44 -0700
Best of wishes to you too Rose. I love that area you live in!
Regards from
Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy",
,,,,,,,,
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Scottsdale, Arizona
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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:00:48 -0700, Tech Rose - LoveBytes wrote:
| I do believe international prayers in many religions help.
|
| It is things like this, that band common folk together world wide
| rather than looking for differences.
|
| I too am glad things are looking better. Although I am hundreds
| of miles away, we too have our fires here in the Las Vegas
| Valley. While they are not near our home, the air and smoke was
| so bad yesterday! We could not even see the mountains which are
| things we always see as we walk outdoors. It was a bit better
| today.
|
| Since we both have emphysema, this news almost panics me. We do
| have oxygen at home and try to keep the doors and windows as
| tightly closed as possible.
|
| The fires here, while not as large as in AZ are burning terribly.
| The major road to Pahrump has been closed most of the day and
| parts of previous days. This is not a large town, it is about 50+
| miles away, but it is hard for them with the fire.
|
| I will continue my prayers for good outcomes ...for the
| firefighters and everyone and all the animals too!
|
| Rose
| Las Vegas
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Keyboard Cowboy" <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx>
| To: "!Keyboard Cowboy Group Send" <KeyboardCowboyGroupSend@>
| Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 10:13 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=-
| Thank you - fire update
|
|
| Just an update for everyone on the BarB-Q (brush fires) out
| here..... First, thanks to many of you for the kind wishes and
| concern. It's nice to know so many were concerned.
| Thursday it was like being in a war zone. The smoke was so think
| thaty visibility was next to nothing. A few of the residents of
| Desert Mountain were evacuated, anbd all construction crews were
| sent home and told not to work until Monday. The tanker planes
| and helicopters flew constantly, it was quite a sight! Probably
| the most frustration came from the fact that even though I'm a
| firefighter........I had to sit back and watch. I wanted to get
| in the frey!!! Having to smell smoke all day and do nothing is
| like holding a twinkie in front of a dieter!
|
| On Friday, there were shuttle flights over the new house every 10
| minutes or so. The helicopters flew so close you could feel the
| wump-wump-wump of the rotors. While I didn't serve in Vietnam, I
| have a better understanding of what it might have been like near
| a helicopter base there.
|
| The fires in the immediate area of the new house are out. It's
| not so good, locally and in other parts of Arizona. The Arizona
| Republic said that 154,000 acres burned this week alone, taxing
| the state fire resources.
|
| I also saw many, many fire trucks from neigboring areas. The
| paper says there were nearly 800 outside firefighters in the Cave
| Creek fire. Let me tell you, these guys worked their A**es off.
| The temperature was in the high ninties all week. I also saw the
| caravan of equipment for the Indian jump crew.....it was pretty
| neat! Cave Creek is very near where we have the new home -- it's
| about 4 miles North of our home in The Boulders, and just East of
| the new house in desert Mountain. There were actually several
| fires going at the same time here...adding to the complexity.
| The Cave Creek fire burned 60,145 acres and fire crews are still
| working it. It's consumed 11 houses and 3 outbuildings in the
| Tonto area (very close to the new home). The thing that really
| saved our situationn from being even worse was that we got rain
| Thursday night.
|
| Life is almost back to normal........the sun shone bright today
| and visibility was great. It's hard to imagine that two days ago
| I watched fires burning ground material a quarter mile up the
| mountain behind the new house.
|
| God is good..........thank you all again for all your good wishes.
|
| Regards,
|
| Bob <=== You're imbedded reporter from the fireground ,,,,,,,,
| Ô¿Ô¬
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