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Thought some of y'all may want to see my current states state. Worst air quality than any place in America right now. Montana is also burning along with California (like always) and now Washington. While two hurricanes rest on the East coast. God bless the US.
Some dumb kid threw a fire cracker to start this fire. http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/09/04/hikers-say-the-columbia-river-gorge-is-burning-because-teenagers-were-tossing-firecrackers-off-a-cliff/
US national guard stands ready
Excuse the bar there ☝
johnnytwoknees
It's currently 4 miles from my house
raindropped
I miss air that doesn't hurt to breathe.
TheArtfulReposter
Y'all are making some very unusual sunsets down here in Utah, and it's a murder moon tonight
NballardPDX
ChooseFree
Tails155
BC, Canada has it pretty bad, too.
duhrick
Man. I live in Portland and its hazy and smoky af today. The air is yellow. Smells like a goddamn campfire.
tesseract4d2
I'm up in Snohomish County, at least fifty miles from the nearest fire, and the smoke was so thick this morning, you could stare right at
tesseract4d2
The sun without your eyes hurting. I have pictures taken at midday that look like dusk, and the light coming through the windows was red
landcfan
The link said a woman scolded them. Did that happen BEFORE the fire started? That moves it up from dumbass teen to asshole arsonist.
icantbelievemynamewastaken
Per the article I read, she saw them doing it and scolded them, and then again afterwards, found a ranger, reported it and helped catch them
Crash1005
Damn Oregon you on fire and that's coming from California.
ConfusedPenis
So... who pays for something like that? The kids or their parents wouldn't have enough money in a hundred lifetimes.
12rt2345g342563
Taxpayers.
BigVag
And this is what happens when I drop my mix tape
hopvenom
I live here...it is completely heartbreaking to know the places I have had some of my favorite memories are burnt to the ground
sanzo2point0
Same here, Southern Oregon is getting it too. watching the summer river spots die sucks :(
sp00ksNtootz
My car had a bunch of shit on it. Also my lungs. Not cool asshole kid who played with fireworks
bmcgov1209
My car this morning in Portland https://imgur.com/rqpfMyA
iwenttocollegeforthis
Watched it burn from SR-14 last night. In the same boat unfortunately.
darkladyfunk
Friends just evacuated their home. I am so angry right now!
Excalibastard
It was hazy all the way up in Greeley CO yesterday thats how bad this is xD
SvprHanc
ProbablyAChicken
Sometimes I'm glad I live in Minnesota and the worst I have to deal with is snow. Hope you stay safe man
KarakLohr
Northern latitude won't save you. There's almost 400,000 acres on fire in Manitoba and over a million in B.C..
bootybutts
FUCK.
xxDmDxx
I wonder what's going through those kids minds knowing the damage they've created.
kirkov90
patches256
I knew Rachel Amber shouldn't have pushed that trash can over.
Observer241
And then spread the fire with magical screaming
msBumbleBeeButt
Montana too, though nobody seems to care. Hope your funding doesn't run out like ours did.
bananatoast
I care.
lynxiekitten
The smoke is burning my eyes so bad. I am about 30 or so miles from it.
kirkov90
I had to keep my kids inside
lynxiekitten
I stupidly went to the store tonight. Thankfully it has stopped snowing ash (for the time being).
thelittlemaninthecorner
I was out working in my yard and I had to wear a mask to breath. But I would much rather have a bit of smoke than a hurricane.
DamageAxis
"And now Washington"??? We've been on fire for months, I think you're the one late to the party.
DamageAxis
I think you were trying to shy the fire spread from Oregon to Washington. I'm sorry for my confusion.
ME2G
And fires happen every summer in WA too, not just CA.
fudgesicles34
"And now the Washington side of the Gorge."
TheMythicalJackalope
We have had some of our own fires here yes. I live in Spokane and we are surrounded over here.
TheresASeinfeldGifForThis
They should get one of those hurricanes everyone's talking about
rugmiem
brynngivans
You want mudslides? Cause that's how you get mudslides!
cfw34677
+1 you glorious bastard. Take your upvote.
MauroSanchez
You sound like Patrick star
landcfan
We should take Oregon and PUSH it somewhere else!!!
MauroSanchez
Yep
Zosoled
Yes, high winds are totally what we need to quell a raging inferno.
MyPatronusIsVernonDursley
EnjoyThisGIFofYourUsername
MyPatronusIsVernonDursley
If you could actually create a gif of some wizard producing Vernon Dursley as a patronus, I would cherish it intensely for all time
zenoshogun
Do you really want a firecane?
DesignNerd86
Well we had a snowcane with Sandy and that wasn't fun at all so I'm guessing "no"
HuffleTuff98
(-.-) blizzard.
DesignNerd86
Late season hurricane made a baby with a blizzard. blizzardcane? Hurriblizzard?
HuffleTuff98
I appreciate the thought. Call it whatever you want
ThereIsOnlyZuuI
Irma you kidding me? This is Harvey the time to be making jokes.
Badger421
Ooh, two in one. Nice.
Rifree
Good one????
kirkov90
We need RAIN!!!
landcfan
I thought the Pacific Northwest always had rain! I hoped to move there in a few years...
d0o0o0d
That's a couple weeks out.
TheStormFury
We had the driest summer since 1959, 59 days without rain. It rained for a day in Everett, but that was 3 weeks ago.
PapaDeltaXray
Two days of rain since May 17th. And both of those days hardly even counted. This shit is getting out of hand.
bamcockseverywhere
Well, there's gonna be a lot of cheap land available in the Gorge soon...
onethirdofakind
melshot
OMG this is just so scary. Makes me think "there for the Grace of God dare go I." I'm not an overly religious person but I will pray for 2/
melshot
and everyone in the state. Stupid question? Where do the wild animals go?
Fishworshipper
They either die or run.
shiyal
Up in smoke like everything else. But they'll be back. Or their cousins will. Nature is resilient like that.
TweakerTheBarbarian
#2 is from a different fire. 17 years ago.
ProfessorSandwich
So is #3 @op. Guessing someone googled wildfire and started posting
kirkov90
CASCADE LOCKS, OR - SEPT 03, 2017: Wildfires spread from Eagle Creek Trail sparkling evacuation. Your correct glad i put a link.
circlebreaker
The burning desire that was lit in OP's Mother's underpants?
Improbabilitydrive42
Wasn't that the Biscuit fire, in OR?? I remember that picture well.
rugmiem
"But you get the point" -@op probably.
TweakerTheBarbarian
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Bath
kirkov90
Stupid Google
Ihatekeno
Still pretty
joshuNoodleDriver
Seems like you could sneeze hot sauce and start a fire out west.
customcartoons
And don't even THINK about dropping your mixtape out here ...
TweakerTheBarbarian
As we say, "don't even fart in the woods!"
Ihatekeno
What bout a smoke?
robotzombies
Don't park your cars in the high grass.
ballerinawannabe
Don't carry a magnifying glass on a sunny day.
tinykoala
This was literally a group of dumbass kids throwing firecrackers and filming it. A witness yelled at them and ran down the trail to warn 1/
tinykoala
other hikers and let rangers know
hippokitty86
In CA probably but this is so very unusual for Oregon/Washington because we always have so much rain.
Templarfreak
What are you talking about? Oregon has one of the biggest fire-fighting teams in the country specifically for reasons like this Lol.
Templarfreak
I mean, this many and this large of fires are a bit unusual but not unexpected.
hippokitty86
In the years that I've lived here there have never been any huge fires like this. My husband has been here his whole life and recalls one.
Templarfreak
There is a major fire almost every single summer somewhere in Oregon. It never gets like this but it still gets pretty big.
Templarfreak
You need to understand that Oregon is literally fire territory. Everything about Oregon's forests is perfect conditions for big fires
mayorofpenistown
But CA got all the rain/snow this year and you didn't :/
Gaelwyn
We didn't really get much rain in CA. More than the last five years when we had a drought, but not that much.
mayorofpenistown
Fire season sucks dick
hippokitty86
We actually got an unusual amount of snow this past winter (12" in Portland). Just having too many dry days is what screwed us this summer
hippokitty86
Oh, and of course, the asshole teenagers who thought it'd be cool to throw fireworks into dry brush...they also screwed us
DetrimentalWolf
All because of some stupid kids playing with fireworks.
simpletaco
Release photos of the ones responsible...
Cochito
Is that really a good idea? I mean what good can come of that?
cliojayne
Up here in Montana a lot of them have been dry lightning.
RhysPanda
They were throwing firecrackers off of a cliff
NotFarEnough
Ban fireworks
DetrimentalWolf
I would rather ban stupid people. Fireworks can be fun if proper safety precautions are in place.
Lionskull
to be fair, if the fire spread that far from one fire, it was gonna happen eventually, with or without those kids.
dizzisaper
Could have a controlled fire.
kirkov90
Just the Colombia Gorge is on fire because of some stupid kid.
DoubleChungTransplant
And the fire by Los Angeles CA. Although that's now 80-90% contained.
teampangea
That little fuckhead just destroyed one of Oregon's seven wonders.
NotFarEnough
It really sucks. But to put it in perspective, a lot of other things could've set off that tinderbox too
wadenelson1
When it's THAT dry and ready to burn it's pointless to blame the kids. If not them, lightening would have done it. Or a chainsaw. Or, or
Schralepin
Nope. Fuck that kid.
ciaozzza
Excuse me what
ForgotMyOtherAcct
fires used to occur more frequently, now that we try and prevent them, material builds up. Now when a fire gets started it's a worldender.
wadenelson1
A guy running a saw here hit a nail, threw a few sparks, and started a wildfire. No way you can prevent EVERY source of ignition.
jetflight
... Why is this downvoted? If some lousy crackers will burn down the state, then literally anything could've started the fire
kirkov90
bamcockseverywhere
Because there's fucking bright orange and yellow and red signs at literally every trailhead and forest road junction screaming NO FIREWORKS
jetflight
Right, I'm not saying he was stupid. But the fire was gonna happen no matter what. He threw the cracker, he didn't dry the state out.