From: Beaver_Fever@live.com   
      
   On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 5:06:51 PM UTC-7, Snidely wrote:   
   > Just this Wednesday, Beaver Fever explained that ...   
   > > On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 12:19:24 PM UTC-7, Snidely wrote:   
   > >> Jeannie Hobbs pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
   > >>> Veronique and I both evacuated from Boulder Creek on August 18 - V. to   
   > >>> Dover's house in Santa Cruz and me and spouse to his parents' in Fremont.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> We visited home last Sunday - still standing by the stroke of luck of   
   being   
   > >>> on the east side of the highway instead of the west side. Julia's house   
   is   
   > >>> fine too; it's right in town and was badly threatened August 20 but they   
   > >>> fought back the fires and saved the town. Sunday we emptied the fridge   
   > >>> (pee-yew!!!) and swept ashes and got some more redwood duff raked up in   
   > >>> case a flareup or wind sent embers our way.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> We're moving back home this afternoon; power is still out but supposed to   
   > >>> be back tonight, and water testing hasn't come back yet so we can't drink   
   > >>> or boil it, but we expect those results tomorrow or early next week. In   
   > >>> the meantime we'll be on generator and bottled/container/stored water,   
   but   
   > >>> we'll be home, and that's what counts.   
   > >> Glad you're okay.   
   > >>   
   > >> Over the weekend, I got a report about evacuees from Oregon's McKenzie   
   > >> River area (near Eugene). 90% of the Blue River community destroyed,   
   > >> but the evacuees reporting were from a corner that was spared.   
   > >>   
   > >> Interesting times indeed.   
   > >>   
   > >> /dps   
   > >>   
   > >> --   
   > >> As a colleague once told me about an incoming manager,   
   > >> "He does very well in a suck-up, kick-down culture."   
   > >> Bill in Vancouver   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > the view yesterday   
   > >   
   > > https://ibb.co/LdC5ptS   
   > That's probably not from near Eugene.   
   >   
   > Are you close to the Bobcat fire?   
   >   
   > /dps   
   >   
   > --   
   > "I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it"   
   > _Roughing It_, Mark Twain   
      
      
   Maybe 10-12 miles   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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