So if you havent noticed yet, ye friends and family from far off places, Montana is on fire, and not just a little bit either. I woke this morning to a beautiful clear sky, preparing the neighbors' Vespa for its initial cruise to the DMV for my motorcycle endorsement test. No more that an hour later I surface from the depths and I cant see the benches or the mountains through the wafting haze of campfire. This one is close and its new and its really close, just up the West Fork road about 5 min from here. Montana is fucked. But this is what happens when the natural burn cycle of the forest is suppressed for so long. I hope we can start over.
My friends' homes were there, some still, some no longer. No worries though. We pay too much for insurance for things like this and its only material. Memmories have better color anyway. The point is that no one has been hurt yet and that is awesome. Theres engines and crews from all over the Northwest here to help so I can imagine the bar scene pretty rowdy near the fire camp.
check it out...
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/06/news/state/20-derby_g.txt
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You should put a picture of my charred house on here. That's at least as neat as the chopper that saved it. Almost anyway.
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