Friday, June 13th, 2008
Well That's New....

Yesterday afternoon I was sitting at work, and suddenly it began to smell like someon was burning leaves. Being from the Midwest, I didn't really think anything of it, but slowly it crept into my consciousness that, considering my location in the middle of a "corporate park", no one should be burning leaves and it shouldn't smell like smoke. So I got up from my desk and went to the window. It was foggy outside, but this fog hovered above the bulidings and never reached the ground.

That's because it wasn't fog - it was smoke.

The Evans Fire is currently blazing in Eastern NC. Apparently there as a wind shift yesterday that brought the smoke further inland, and it reached all the way to the Triangle. According to my hasty Google Map research, the fire is acutally about 150 miles away from my current location, so that must have been one heck of a wind shift.

Again citing my Midwestern roots, I don't think I've ever experienced the residual effects of a wildfire. Just another thing on the list of Firsts!
Tags:  Cary, NC
5 Comments
lgrant
1) Wow...that's some distance for smoke. Sounds like you have a good nose too. Did anyone else notice?

What's causing the Evans Fire?
LGrant   Friday, June 13, 2008
caseymeyer
2) LGrant - One of our facilities about 15 miles away had to bring outside workers inside because the smoke was so dense it started bothering people with astma and other respiratory problems. People in my office started noticing at about the same time I did.

I don't know much about it, but I think the fire is caused (and continues), in part, because of the NC drought. I'm not sure how it started, but I know that some places in the state are on "no burn" notices.
Casey   Friday, June 13, 2008
betsyradish
3) We used to have smoke all the time in Florida from random wildfires all over the south. A couple years ago we had horrible smoke from Georgia fires. The fire department was begging people to stop calling because the fire was nowhere near us.
Betsy   Friday, June 13, 2008
stevenheinzel
4) When we were in Denali National Park in Alaska last year, lightning produced three forest fires about 100 miles south of us that resulted in some pretty heavy smoke in our area - even at that distance away. They let the fires burn themselves out because there are no roadways in the thousands of acres of forests, so they can't get equipment in to fight the fires.
stheinz   Friday, June 13, 2008
reera
5) We are planning to go to Denali in 2009-do you have any recommendations? Did you go on your own or with a tour? What time of the year were you there? Did you see the Northern Lights? We love Alaska and on weeks like the past two, could be talked into spending 6 months out of the year-if it just wasn't so far away from family.
dannie   Saturday, June 14, 2008
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