The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
A fiery vision of hell on earth
This video was filmed by a group escaping the Ute Park fire in New Mexico a couple of days ago. They left it very, very late . . .
They're lucky to have made it through that. If they'd left it any later, they might not have got out.
The smoke will get you. Newbies don't realize how bad it can be. Always work in clean air or you will pay for it the next day with a monoxide headache. Smoke, stump holes, falling branches, and falling trees, even boulders rolling downhill are things that will surprise you when you are out there.
I can't imagine the heat they felt. I remember Wings over East Texas. When the Confederate AF would blow up gas bombs to simulate bomb drops, the heat from a few hundred yards away was impressive.
I passed a flare at a chemical plant in Pasadena Tx one year. I don't know what they were burning off, but it sounded like a jet engine and the heat thru a closed window was very intense....
They are lucky they didn't have a tredd down across the road, or be blinded by smoke and dump it in the ditch...
ReplyDeleteThe smoke will get you. Newbies don't realize how bad it can be. Always work in clean air or you will pay for it the next day with a monoxide headache. Smoke, stump holes, falling branches, and falling trees, even boulders rolling downhill are things that will surprise you when you are out there.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine the heat they felt. I remember Wings over East Texas. When the Confederate AF would blow up gas bombs to simulate bomb drops, the heat from a few hundred yards away was impressive.
ReplyDeleteI passed a flare at a chemical plant in Pasadena Tx one year. I don't know what they were burning off, but it sounded like a jet engine and the heat thru a closed window was very intense....
Very nearly too late to matter...