its still pretty intense. over 125,000 acres of forest have burnt, the fires are still going, and most of the small fires merged into one huge fire.
still grateful theres a huge river between me and these fires!
the silver lining seems to be that what is burning now will serve later as a kind of buffer zone. as the fires have been burning in mostly uninhabited areas, and have also been aided by many controlled burns surrounding the areas that are inhabited, it seems in a few years + when another fire comes (its basically an inevitable thing that big fires happen here every year, tho not usually like this!) it will be stopped by what is now fully burnt.
so it feels like mother earth is doing some house cleaning, and also naturally creating buffer zones for later fires, once it starts raining and snowing these fires will go out and that area wont burn again for a long time.
up until recently there was no injuries and no homes destroyed, but i have heard recently that some areas people are losing their homes.
the biggest thing for me is the smoke and not working outside that much, also this has put on damper on whatever was left of the summer time stuff, like going swimming and especially going and gathering wild
fruit and all that.
but when i think of this i think it is not so bad, makes me think of the animals though, so many of whom have lost their homes, too, and also are undoubtedly freaked out by not be able to go and gather from their spots- our food is burning! i can certainly get by on what i have growing and etc, so i dont need to be out harvesting stuff, but they have little choice. the animals are on the move, and it must be very hard for them.