Happy July 4th All USA Folk! Its a big one, 250 years of our founding!


-DallanC

congrats to you all... still hanging in there after all this time.

Happy Independence Day!

Usually a town south of me puts on a big 4th show and the Airforce from Hill AFB flys something over them to start the day / parade. They usually pass over my house on the way there. This year it was supposed to be F35s. Sadly I was outside with camera ready and they took a different route south, well to the west of me. Fantastically, I looked at a map of our state (huge!) and they flew up and down most of it, alot of small towns that never see jets like this all got a taste of those awesome screaming engines. Pretty neat.

This short is from DC, some spectacular aircraft /flex'ing for everyone to see

www.youtube.com/shorts/WuSczuNnF0M

-DallanC

nice...very classy indeed.

Outstanding short video Dallan.

Happy Independence Day to all my US mates. I hope you all had a fantastic day with fireworks.

Vince wrote:

I hope you all had a fantastic day with fireworks.

Sadly with the extreme drought and too many massive wildfires, they shut down most of the state to fireworks for the 4th. We have several fires approaching 100,000 acres in size.

-DallanC

DallanC wrote:

Vince wrote: I hope you all had a fantastic day with fireworks. Sadly with the extreme drought and too many massive wildfires, they shut down most of the state to fireworks for the 4th. We have several fires approaching 100,000 acres in size. -DallanC

OUCH…that’s not good, and I suppose your forests are all pine tres too, which is not good because they catch fire so easily and burn like crazy, in fact, they pretty much explode. I remember when I was in the US back in 2018, I was taken through te bushfire area that had burnt near Redding CA…it was really terrible, downright devastating.

Stay safe mate.

indeed thats a big area to be burnt.... stay safe folks

Its all a mix of burnable vegetation from Pines in the high country to Juniper and various brush like Oak Brush and long grasses in the lower country. Getting rid of Juniper trees is a huge boon, those act as moisture radiators, they dry out the soil and release the moisture into the air through evaporation. They ruin the range lands where they grow.

A couple weeks ago the wind was just right to blow the smoke from two fires right through where I live... the sunlight turned a dark and gloomy almost pink color, and ash was falling like snow. The closer fire was still over 30 miles away, which I believe is where the ash was coming from, but smoke was from both (farther one was 150 miles away).

That closer one started as 1 fire and burned North East from the origin. Then two more south west of it started, those two combined at some point into a huge blaze which moved north east until it joined with the original fire. Its a moonscape there where its burned off.

-DallanC

WOW, I never knew that about Juniper trees, that’s is incredible.

We’ve had smoke from fires 200 km away turning the sky brown over here, and NZ has complained about smoke from the fires in southern Australia. Unfortunately smoke doesn’t evaporate like steam or clouds…it just hangs there.

That’s usually the way with fires…they never seem to burn one another out, they just get bigger and do more damage.

Bee well mate and keep safe.