Not going to lie to you, folks. The skies are ugly, the air is nasty, and people around here get nervous when we see the ash piling up on cars and in the parking lot. Evacuation checklists are going around, and people who ordinarily shun wearing their masks have no problem with them now that the threat is visible.
45 miles away sounds like a safe distance, but in our area we don't like those odds. We know that winds can shift and with our firefighting resources already spread thin throughout the state on 27 active incidents, we have to step it up and do what we can to take care of ourselves.
And if that includes bucking a trailer load of dead limbs, bark and leaves to the dump, that's what we have to do.
