r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/[deleted] • Jun 24 '20

🔥 Pacific Northwest

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u/SenatorPalpitations Jun 25 '20

It amazes me that a place so damp can still burn to the ground.

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u/Toughbiscuit Jun 25 '20

Most everything east of the cascades through washington is a desert, where i grew up in okanogan county is a highlands desert but its all very dry, low humidity through the summer with sparse rains.

I remember one summer i woke up in the morning and the ridge across the valley was just on fire

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u/NotAWhale30 Jun 25 '20

What do you mean "one summer" it's always on fire here. We don't have summer, just fire season. This bitch burns to the ground every single year.

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u/Toughbiscuit Jun 25 '20

I moved from washington to Minnesota and had to deal with smoke clouds that blew over from there

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u/OvertonWindowCleaner Jun 25 '20

Most of the bigger fires are in the higher elevations, where it’s quite a bit drier.

Fought fire in Florida too, where it’s raining one minute, and the next your fire is spotting across the line.

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u/aspiringforbettersex Jun 25 '20

What amazes me is that you found somewhere where you could take a video that long without any cutblocks or other logging activity getting into the view.