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The Silver Fire - As It Happened - Part 8 (Con’t)
At home I walk across the road to Steve and Nicole’s, turn on the water. The birdbath and the little critter water bowl are dry. This is Steve and Nicole’s water tank.
I wander around back there a bit, see they moved my woodpile (good idea), and notice in the background, black smoke.
I’m up on my deck. This is the same location as in the earlier picture, taken by Steve and Nicole’s water tank. These are the lower hills you see in the water tank picture. The farther hills are behind smoke. That is Steve and Nicole’s house on the right, and you can barely see the water tank behind it, up on the hill to the left of the house. This is looking north, northwest.
I bring the sprinkler up to the deck. I soon notice that the fire has “spotted,” about a hundred yards from the main fire. That’s the spot fire on the left. The wind later became extremely gusty from different directions, but mostly during this time I felt the wind across both ears
At home I water the red hot pokers which bloom limply by my doorstep. I fill the bird bath (wheel-barrow). I water Bonita’s aloe. Finally, I sit on the back porch for a while, drinking water, facing south, the creek, birdsong.
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IN MEMORY OF THE GRANITE MOUNTAIN HOTSHOTS