What if it Snows?

You are self sufficient so I would head for this spot. If you do not need the B.S. of the truck stops.

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Should be 2 to 3 hrs out.

 

There is 10 ft of rock between the grass and the structure...and the tall trees (Ponderosa) flanking the picture...the bark is actually a fire insulation for the heart of the trees...the flash fire that would happen with the grass will not effect the trees....however that wall of toyon and manzanita will be a problem if fire comes up that hill. Which is why I have a 2 inch fire hose ready to connect to an engine or directly to the hydrant to knock down any fire advance up the slope. Pays to have been on a local fire dept..

 

It's been a bad year. All of my water trucks and all of my dozers are on the Dixie fire and I got a call yesterday from CalFire to see if I had, or knew of, any more.

Smokey Bear is definitely getting his butt kicked this year.

 

Something tells me that there are no brightly colored water tenders at that sales yard just south of Weed on I-5....they are probably all being leased to fire agencies like a couple years ago.

 

Yup. That was one of the lessons we learned in the Carr fire where the entire town of Paradise and 80 people burned up. In an urban interface area there's no such thing as too much equipment. It shouldn't have taken a tragedy like that to learn that.

Our house in Grass Valley was on top of a ridge that ran exactly in line with the prevailing winds. A few years back a fire started south of us and if the wind hadn't changed at sundown it would have taken the whole ridge out. We were already evacuated by then.
I already know what CalFire had planned for that area. It's dense urban interface with thick stands of over growth Ponderosa and Doug fir. Little winding streets, poor access in and out, several hundred houses, and a propane tank in every yard. If a fire starts up that ridge they're going to evacuate everyone, lock the access down tight, build a good dozer line around it, and just ignore it until the propane tanks quit blowing up. Let 'er burn.
Know what? I don't blame them a bit. In a fire environment like that the whole area is impossible to defend and if you're going to live there you assume the risk.

 

Don’t you guys bury your propane tanks ….?

 

Nope...all above ground, usually on a concrete pad....very few tanks explode, they are designed to vent.

 

Thanks... This is exactly the kind of place I am looking for!!!

 

And there's the rub...very few tanks explode. I don't know about you but I wouldn't be hanging around to find out which ones had dirt dauber nests in the vent tube.