Nebraska wildfires?
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Kids attend Brady schools, school is canceled for tomorrow due to everyone that was affected from the fires. Live in Gothenburg, hot spot took off yesterday afternoon south of Gothenburg, got pretty intense for a few hours but they managed it nicely, haven't see any smoke south of town or in the brady direction all day.
did they get any snow? This dam wind doesn’t help. When I was on the local fire department there was a big one that we got a call for mutual aid but if it wasn’t for tractors and disks we couldn’t have stopped it the fire was moving so fast I don’t think that would be plausible out there
You're not kidding about those farmers. I've seen it personally twice. Farmers taking off and turning over as much soil as they can. The bad thing is this damn wind. Embers can go a long ways in 50 mph gusts.
I have to drive from Denver to Kearney later today, so I'm planning to take Hwy 6 through McCook and Holdrege. It's a slow route, but I absolutely want to avoid an unplanned detour off of I-80. With all the truck traffic, those are a nightmare.
Hwy 6 looks to be out of reach of any of the fires. But if anyone hears differently, please chime in. TIA.
Hwy 6 looks to be out of reach of any of the fires. But if anyone hears differently, please chime in. TIA.
I will be driving from Lincoln to Holyoke, Colorado later this afternoon. If anyone hears of detours, smoke blowing across I-80, etc., please post the information here. Schuele, you have a smart idea. I'll wave to you as we pass each other.
Corn shucks and even the corn cobs, the cobs would roll a long way and the shucks would fly into unburned fields and start more fires
Tha Morrill fire has exceeded 600,000 acres, 0% containment hotspots are to the north west side of the fire, they have a good fire line on the southern edge before the Platt river and a good fire line on the east edge towards the town of Lemoyne. Heard a report this morning and they think it may take two weeks or longer to get it under control hundred percent.
When I am coming back home from visiting Nebraska, I have driven Hwy 34 from east of McCook to Denver's airport several times so I can get a runza one last time. Not much west of McCook until you get closer to Denver
My plan to use Hwy 6 worked well, as we didn't encounter any fires (could smell a little smoke at times, though).
Probably took an extra 40 minutes to get from Denver to Kearney, vs. taking I-80 all the way. But like I said earlier, I didn't want hit an I-80 closure and be stuck behind 1,000 other vehicles trying to detour.
Probably took an extra 40 minutes to get from Denver to Kearney, vs. taking I-80 all the way. But like I said earlier, I didn't want hit an I-80 closure and be stuck behind 1,000 other vehicles trying to detour.
News I heard yesterday is that they’ve been able to save most building sites. Not sure if that’s accurate. To give an idea of scale, 50 years ago I was a summer rush chairman for a frat. We visited a kid on a ranch east of Alliance. It was 13 miles across cow pastures to their house enclave. 15 miles out the back way and that was “only 76,000 acres. 600’000 acres is unbelievable.
I heard 16 structures yesterday, not sure how accurate that number is.
Yeah I heard more stuff yesterday. Fences will be a HUGE problem. Hay reserves likewise. Cow calf guys will have a mess with sick cattle and cows rejecting their calves. Horrible deal. Maybe on the bright side it eradicates some cedar trees? Only good I can think of that might come from this.
When it comes to red cedars yes this is a good thing for them to be burned out. They take excessive amounts of water, prevent other native grasses and plants from growing... literally preventing other plant life from growing through chemicals in their roots... highly flammable and make fires even harder to control. They spread so easily and take over natural vegetation choking out so much good grasses and seed plants that wildlife need.
It is why we have been trying to thin them out in family's pastures in south central Nebraska and back home in western Nebraska.
They are native, but they are invasive and helped fuel these infernos.
