Refer to my Smoke on the Water post from last week.
This weekend, My Liege and I went away for some lake cottage R&R. Unfortunately, that fire I mentioned last week that filled our neighborhood sky with smoke? It came back with a vengeance. Just a few days ago, the people who’d been evacuated from their homes were allowed to move back in. On Saturday night, however, after a peaceful but very hot day on the lake, the fire blazed up anew. A second evacuation alert went into effect, and the road was closed. We weren’t in danger, but watched the following spectacle from the dock. These photos were taken over about an hour, two at the outside (I wasn’t counting, but as the night grew darker the shutter took longer and longer to click).
That’s all she wrote.
OMG! I hope everyone got away safely. I’m so glad you weren’t in danger and hope it stays that way.
Edie, I’m bad when it comes to listening to the news. So far, however, I don’t think any lives have been lost. It’s not a heavily populated area, thank God. I did hear that two homes were lost, and of course all the poor animals.
My dh and I went out to dinner last night, and when we came home there was a cop parked at the four-stop near our house to prevent people from driving further if they didn’t live in the neighbourhood. Another fire had popped up in the provincial park near our house. Last I heard, they were hoping to have it contained last night, but this morning I’m hearing the helicopters…
If this fire got out of hand, it IS near a lot of subdivisions. Yikes.