{"id":4010,"date":"2012-03-20T20:44:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2012-03-20T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T04:08:14","slug":"from-snow-into-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4010","title":{"rendered":"From Snow into Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spring equinox sunset in "the notch."<\/p><\/div>\n

Everyone has posted their “Happy Equinox” messages. Oh well. I live in a house that was placed by the Old Ones to line up with the equinoctial sunsets<\/em>, instead. You can see how tonight the sun seemed to fit into a particular notch in the ridge to the west.\u00a0 They were truly wise, the Old Ones.<\/p>\n

And what did I do? I rolled out of bed, walked and fed the dogs, and went off to a wildland fire-training class in the next county. Actually, it was no so much a class as a demonstration\/sales pitch for this product<\/a>\u2014which is a cool product if your agency has big bucks to spend.<\/p>\n

It’s a great way to show people who live in the urban-wildland interface, which is where my little volunteer fire department is situated, exactly how a forest fire could roll up their bosky subdivision. <\/a><\/p>\n

We’re not buying it, of course. No big bucks for the high-tech stuff.<\/p>\n

But I also had the chance to chat with some agency people whom I needed to see, and then the other guy from my department and I stood back against the wall and muttered sotto voce<\/em> about how the US Forest Service really could have used the SimTable<\/a> last year, when they made a very bad fire prediction that, literally, blew up in their faces hereabouts.<\/p>\n

Hey, no one pays us, so we can be free with our opinions.<\/p>\n

Here is a news report about modeling last summer’s Wallow Fire in Arizona and New Mexico.<\/a><\/p>\n

I normally post fire stuff on the other blog<\/a>, but I thought that I would share a bit here. I may be at my desk editing this big book on Central and Eastern European Paganism for our book series, but now when the telephone rings, I think, Uh-oh, is this a fire call?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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