Level 2 Evacuation -- What are the SEVEN SIGNS

Things happen in "nature" that tend to weed out the weak and stupid.
I think the stupid part of the population has been flourishing for too long now.
Time for an adjustment. Maybe more than one.
Alas, there is some "collateral" damage.......and some of the "target" group escapes.

 

Also, Steve, I hope your wife is ok.

 

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Above are two links to descriptions of the seven seals.
To me, even the summaries of these seals differ and then there are thousands of years of opinion and interpretation.

I thought the seals began with the Anti Christ taking over government.
Some may say in USA Biden/ Harris are the Anti Christ, others may say Trump/Pense are.
In Ukraine, some may say Putin is the Anti Christ.

As for the other seals, there is not world wide famine, war or death - though some countries have food shortages, other countries are at war and Covid & Cancer have reduced the population.

I may be answering the OP post is an unexpected way.
True, the fires the USA west coast are experiencing are catastrophic as our hurricanes, floods and other disasters of nature.

OP asks, "What are the seven seals? Have they been broken?"
IMO I'd say the seals have not been broken.

Very deep topic, could be discussed & documented for hours.

 

things are pretty quiet around here

 

Things aren't as quiet in this neck of the woods.

We evacuated due to the LNU complex fire several weeks ago. Now here is the afternoon sky today at high noon:



At least that batch of fires is 90+% contained as a optimistic view.

 

I don't think wildfire management is one of the seals, and I hope your wife is OK.
If she's still in the house tell her that wildfires are no joke.

Most people who perish in wildfires do so for the same reasons that they die in hurricanes, which is the inability to flee once things get bad.
That's not exactly a brilliant....er....revelation but tell her to at least keep her car filled up and to have more than one bug out route committed to memory if she's not already very familiar with the area.
The good news is that if a wildfire rages through your neighborhood then it will reduce the available fuel for the next few fire seasons.
Nature's exfoliate.
Hardening Your Home - Ready for Wildfire

Was it a boy or a girl?

 

What he said!! We have a friend in Colorado whose parents died in a wildfire there a few years ago because she went back into the house to get something. They were cutting it that close!

 

Here's a shot of the sky today at 10 AM:



This is from the fires in Fresno.

Never had this amount of ash on the ground around our house before.

 

My area in Oregon typically never burns. But this is not a typical year. Lincoln City, a town along the Oregon Coast -- where the turf meets the surf -- is burning this year. Very unusual. The Oregon Coast is usually so damp, it's tough to start a fire when you want to.

Smoke is so bad, we have about 200 yard visibility. Four bucks wandered through my place yesterday -- BIG BUCKS -- looking totally disoriented and not scared of me at all.

Deer hunting season opens in a couple of weeks. I hope, wonder, if the state will delay the opening. I know most hunters are great in terms of safety, but all it takes is one idiot and - WHOOSH.

I won't say I am scared, but I am concerned. So much so, even considered moving in with the in-laws for a couple of days. But CoVid concerns make that unrealistic.

By the way, the ENTIRE state of Oregon has been put into Level 1 evacuation mode.
kris

 

Yeah...
They had much bigger problems.

 

Smoke maps appear very wicked in all of Western Oregon, which appears more consistently bad than California:



It is currently "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups" (an improvement from unhealthy for everyone) up here in the metro Seattle reagion, but now that Oregon cloud will be headed our way. Hopefully most of it will stay up high, though some will mix down to the surface.

 

praying for low winds and rain

 

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My mangy pack of mutts have been locked indoors since Monday afternoon....normally they spend most of their time out of doors -- and how we ended up with the pack is still unclear to me. It happened when I was recovering from an accident and was under the influence of pain meds a year ago.

At any rate, none of us could stand it any longer so -- despite air quality that is off the scale of dangerous to everyone -- I took them all out into the death cloud of smoke this evening for a 10 minute jaunt that turned into 30. I have since been hacking and coughing. Meanwhile, the canines are all peaceably sleeping. GRRRR.

Just read we are having a La Nina winter this year. The rains can't come soon enough.

La Niña has arrived. Here's what it could mean for you - CNN

 

Folks near pre-burned forests should have this bookmarked

WPC 5- and 7-Day Total Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts

 

Possible rain on the horizon and then come the mud slides.

 

Why aren't we little Mr. Sunshine.

 

For a relative gauge of smoke density here now --

Yesterday, my solar system's power peaked at 74% compared to the first few days of the month. Today, just 15%. If attenuation is logarithmic, that means 6X more material in the atmospheric column. Without adjusting for increased solar cell efficiency at these significantly lower temperatures.

The surface level smoke is somewhat heavier today, but by nowhere near that much. The bulk of the difference is at higher altitudes.

I've had a kludged box fan filter(multi-filter in parallel, to reduce backpressure on the fan and increase total filtered flow, MERV 12-13 filters) running continuously for two days, making the inside air much cleaner than the outside.