This is a sweet gum tree story..
We had a windstorm here about less than a month ago and fires here in Bonney Lake,,,, pretty darn scarey I tell you...
luckily I was prob about 3-5 mi from it.....Or a bunch of hills away from me....Smokey as all get out ...the power was out for a day and a half.....I think the altitude here at my place is prob 600 ft above sea level.
For about 4 days it was not safe to go outside.. so when finally the smoke cleared a bit it was still really warm out
I think 90 ....an thats really hot for Bonney Lake.....The fire then was said to be 20% contained....
They are saying it is 95% contained now..
Any way I could drive over a hill real close to me, an then drive down a bit on the other side of the hill
and I could see the the helicopters dropping water on the fire ...
Any way I had a Sweet gum tree story......There is about A mile of sweet gum trees lining a street near me...just a block
away...and a big branch was blown down............It was so smoky out I did not get over to cut it....It was a limb about
7 ft not real big tho maybe the largest part of the branch was 4-5 in... when the smoke cleared.......no sweet gum for me.....said the tree nazi..........haha
Oh a couple of our neighbors lost their homes..........Fire is so god awful.......!!!!!!
We always think ....It can't happen here....!
take care all ,,,mucho love