Jul 17, 2018
The fires have started
It only took one day of 36C temperatures and we have a layer of smoke in the air. Many of the fires are human caused, i.e. cigarette butts out a car window. By mid afternoon today we have three fires surrounding us.
Suddenly at 7:45PM as we were preparing dinner a huge storm came up, totally unexpected. We had white caps, a piece of heavy lawn furniture overturned and torrential rain. This was all accompanied by thunder and lightening. So will the rain put our the fires or will the lightning spark more ?
Breaking news 15 minutes later.
Then the fury of the storm….
We have never ever seen such a storm in all the time we lived here. It came up out of no where and was not in the forecast.
One of our very heavy wind resistant chairs went over.
The wind was incredible.
The rainbow, meanwhile the thunder and lighting kept up.
Taken from inside.
I finally went outside to take this photo. The arrow says ‘the lake ‘. Quite the sky. During this storm the temperatures dropped from 90F to 73F within 20 minutes.
This was not the post I had planned for tonight but nature dictated my words and photos. We can only hope that this storm has brought us more good than bad. The smoke today was an indication that Colin would not be able to do the view photography that he does at this time of year. So perhaps this unexpected storm will put out some fires, however the lightening could be a bad omen.
Meanwhile the thunder and lightening continue.
Just realized that it is 9:15PM 😯 I am so blessed to have such an understanding and patient husband. Must dash and make dinner.
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The brush fires are not good as usual, but the heavy rain might help keep them under control; somewhat.
Hey George, you ended up in spam today. Sadly we still have fires burning. Strangely there are not many updates on the situation, just that they are dealing with more new fires.
Very weird weather. After a couple hot days we are getting a reprieve of 22-24 with sun, my favorite kind of days. Supposed to get scorching next week though. They only just put a fire ban on here today – I really think they need to start much earlier with those
We don’t yet have a campfire ban and I think that it is disgraceful.