Appalachia is Burning

[Lewdog]

:>> Now more than 25 wildfires are burning in the North Carolina mountains, mostly in remote areas, due to a severe drought (no rain in more than two months). A few light showers are expected today. Most of the fires are southwest of Asheville with 40,000+ acres burning in just the last couple of weeks. Southeast of Asheville, wildfires that have closed Chimney Rock Park, Lake Lure (pic above) and South Mountains State Park. There are no fires near the city of Asheville or Biltmore - just seeing and smelling a little smoke. All major highways are open. All state parks in the area are closed so their rangers can help with fires (includes Mt. Mitchell, Lake James and Gorges).

The Lake Lure and South Mountains fires continue to grow quickly (read more below). Currently in the Nantahala National Forest in Western North Carolina, more than 1,000 firefighters and support staff from more than 40 states and territories are working to suppress 23 forest fires. Many of these locations are 20 inches below normal for the year. With all the dry leaves on the ground and very low humidity, fires have plenty of fuel. Burning bans cover most of our mountains - including Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Heavy smoke is settling into some valleys and many of our small towns, including Franklin and Robbinsville areas. Crews have saved 100+ homes on the Tellico and Ferebee fires to date. No homes have been destroyed yet.

Evacuations include sections of Lake Lure, most of Chimney Rock Village and areas near the Nantahala Gorge (Swain, Macon and Graham Counties). Stay away from this area for the next week. Also stay away from the Nantahala Gorge (popular summer whitewater rafting area). The governor has issued a state of emergency to aid in fighting the fires. To make matters worse, many of these fires appear to be the result of arson. <<​

More details on each one at the link

There are no fires reported around here but it's impossible to ignore. You can't look across your own yard without looking through a smoky haze. You can literally taste it. So we're not in danger from something encroaching but at the same time we're surrounded by woods and in the same drought conditions so something could erupt at any time.

First saw this haze, coming from about 100 miles to the west, on (appropriately) Election Day. The air seemed to clear after that but it's now worse than ever. Anyone else seeing this?


Stay safe out there, keep alert and pray for rain.

At some point in the not so distant future, these recurring droughts in much of the world will affect food crops to the point where we will see less and less on the food shelves at the supermarkets. Once that happens, perhaps the global climate change deniers will finally wake up, too late though, I imagine.

Funny, instead of trying to work on Global Warming, companies like Koch are working on genetically modifying crops so they grow in less deep soil, with less water, and yield higher crops.

 

[Manonthestreet]

I'm in Carolina Beach right now is how I knew about the rain.....

Whelp -- that's about 500 miles away in the wrong direction.

According to my brother Charlotte is 4 hrs away so pretty large storm.....couldn't find Asheville on that map.....this k it's on TN border

 

[strollingbones]

i am near pogo....from the parkway it looks like a low cloud on the horizon hugging the mountains....its smoke....we have not had rain in 30 plus days the rain today went south of us....no relief....

burning bans in effect....no charcoal or camp fires....everyone is super worried....no water means no way to fight a fire.....the leaves are down and are just letting the fires spread at a rapid rate....


good luck pogo....and their is a reason everyone hates arsonists

 

[guno]

Isn't it raining right now across large portion of the state?

It's a big state, I don't know. But certainly not around here in the west.

I was in the other end of the state a week ago and it rained there. We got nuttin'.

I kinda wondered this morning when the light was all diffused like you see when rain is coming --- but apparently it was smoke. Just hadn't smelled it yet. Same thing last Tuesday --- looked like rain, smelled like smoke.

wish we could send you what we have gotten on this side of the state in the past few weeks

 

[strollingbones]

look for spruce pine on the map....pogo is south of there...i am north of there....each of us about 30 minutes in those directions from spruce pine...

 

[Manonthestreet]

:>> Now more than 25 wildfires are burning in the North Carolina mountains, mostly in remote areas, due to a severe drought (no rain in more than two months). A few light showers are expected today. Most of the fires are southwest of Asheville with 40,000+ acres burning in just the last couple of weeks. Southeast of Asheville, wildfires that have closed Chimney Rock Park, Lake Lure (pic above) and South Mountains State Park. There are no fires near the city of Asheville or Biltmore - just seeing and smelling a little smoke. All major highways are open. All state parks in the area are closed so their rangers can help with fires (includes Mt. Mitchell, Lake James and Gorges).

The Lake Lure and South Mountains fires continue to grow quickly (read more below). Currently in the Nantahala National Forest in Western North Carolina, more than 1,000 firefighters and support staff from more than 40 states and territories are working to suppress 23 forest fires. Many of these locations are 20 inches below normal for the year. With all the dry leaves on the ground and very low humidity, fires have plenty of fuel. Burning bans cover most of our mountains - including Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Heavy smoke is settling into some valleys and many of our small towns, including Franklin and Robbinsville areas. Crews have saved 100+ homes on the Tellico and Ferebee fires to date. No homes have been destroyed yet.

Evacuations include sections of Lake Lure, most of Chimney Rock Village and areas near the Nantahala Gorge (Swain, Macon and Graham Counties). Stay away from this area for the next week. Also stay away from the Nantahala Gorge (popular summer whitewater rafting area). The governor has issued a state of emergency to aid in fighting the fires. To make matters worse, many of these fires appear to be the result of arson. <<​

More details on each one at the link

There are no fires reported around here but it's impossible to ignore. You can't look across your own yard without looking through a smoky haze. You can literally taste it. So we're not in danger from something encroaching but at the same time we're surrounded by woods and in the same drought conditions so something could erupt at any time.

First saw this haze, coming from about 100 miles to the west, on (appropriately) Election Day. The air seemed to clear after that but it's now worse than ever. Anyone else seeing this?


Stay safe out there, keep alert and pray for rain.

At some point in the not so distant future, these recurring droughts in much of the world will affect food crops to the point where we will see less and less on the food shelves at the supermarkets. Once that happens, perhaps the global climate change deniers will finally wake up, too late though, I imagine.

Funny, instead of trying to work on Global Warming, companies like Koch are working on genetically modifying crops so they grow in less deep soil, with less water, and yield higher crops.

Quit pumping the aquifers dry for ethanol

 

[depotoo]

Pogo, you stay safe.

:>> Now more than 25 wildfires are burning in the North Carolina mountains, mostly in remote areas, due to a severe drought (no rain in more than two months). A few light showers are expected today. Most of the fires are southwest of Asheville with 40,000+ acres burning in just the last couple of weeks. Southeast of Asheville, wildfires that have closed Chimney Rock Park, Lake Lure (pic above) and South Mountains State Park. There are no fires near the city of Asheville or Biltmore - just seeing and smelling a little smoke. All major highways are open. All state parks in the area are closed so their rangers can help with fires (includes Mt. Mitchell, Lake James and Gorges).

The Lake Lure and South Mountains fires continue to grow quickly (read more below). Currently in the Nantahala National Forest in Western North Carolina, more than 1,000 firefighters and support staff from more than 40 states and territories are working to suppress 23 forest fires. Many of these locations are 20 inches below normal for the year. With all the dry leaves on the ground and very low humidity, fires have plenty of fuel. Burning bans cover most of our mountains - including Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Heavy smoke is settling into some valleys and many of our small towns, including Franklin and Robbinsville areas. Crews have saved 100+ homes on the Tellico and Ferebee fires to date. No homes have been destroyed yet.

Evacuations include sections of Lake Lure, most of Chimney Rock Village and areas near the Nantahala Gorge (Swain, Macon and Graham Counties). Stay away from this area for the next week. Also stay away from the Nantahala Gorge (popular summer whitewater rafting area). The governor has issued a state of emergency to aid in fighting the fires. To make matters worse, many of these fires appear to be the result of arson. <<​

More details on each one at the link

There are no fires reported around here but it's impossible to ignore. You can't look across your own yard without looking through a smoky haze. You can literally taste it. So we're not in danger from something encroaching but at the same time we're surrounded by woods and in the same drought conditions so something could erupt at any time.

First saw this haze, coming from about 100 miles to the west, on (appropriately) Election Day. The air seemed to clear after that but it's now worse than ever. Anyone else seeing this?


Stay safe out there, keep alert and pray for rain.

 

[depotoo]

You also, strollingbones.

 

[Lewdog]

:>> Now more than 25 wildfires are burning in the North Carolina mountains, mostly in remote areas, due to a severe drought (no rain in more than two months). A few light showers are expected today. Most of the fires are southwest of Asheville with 40,000+ acres burning in just the last couple of weeks. Southeast of Asheville, wildfires that have closed Chimney Rock Park, Lake Lure (pic above) and South Mountains State Park. There are no fires near the city of Asheville or Biltmore - just seeing and smelling a little smoke. All major highways are open. All state parks in the area are closed so their rangers can help with fires (includes Mt. Mitchell, Lake James and Gorges).

The Lake Lure and South Mountains fires continue to grow quickly (read more below). Currently in the Nantahala National Forest in Western North Carolina, more than 1,000 firefighters and support staff from more than 40 states and territories are working to suppress 23 forest fires. Many of these locations are 20 inches below normal for the year. With all the dry leaves on the ground and very low humidity, fires have plenty of fuel. Burning bans cover most of our mountains - including Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Heavy smoke is settling into some valleys and many of our small towns, including Franklin and Robbinsville areas. Crews have saved 100+ homes on the Tellico and Ferebee fires to date. No homes have been destroyed yet.

Evacuations include sections of Lake Lure, most of Chimney Rock Village and areas near the Nantahala Gorge (Swain, Macon and Graham Counties). Stay away from this area for the next week. Also stay away from the Nantahala Gorge (popular summer whitewater rafting area). The governor has issued a state of emergency to aid in fighting the fires. To make matters worse, many of these fires appear to be the result of arson. <<​

More details on each one at the link

There are no fires reported around here but it's impossible to ignore. You can't look across your own yard without looking through a smoky haze. You can literally taste it. So we're not in danger from something encroaching but at the same time we're surrounded by woods and in the same drought conditions so something could erupt at any time.

First saw this haze, coming from about 100 miles to the west, on (appropriately) Election Day. The air seemed to clear after that but it's now worse than ever. Anyone else seeing this?


Stay safe out there, keep alert and pray for rain.

At some point in the not so distant future, these recurring droughts in much of the world will affect food crops to the point where we will see less and less on the food shelves at the supermarkets. Once that happens, perhaps the global climate change deniers will finally wake up, too late though, I imagine.

Funny, instead of trying to work on Global Warming, companies like Koch are working on genetically modifying crops so they grow in less deep soil, with less water, and yield higher crops.

Quit pumping the aquifers dry for ethanol

Maybe if all those frackers and coal miners weren't using all the water for their work... sorry I had to go there!

 

[depotoo]

Do you not remember the dust bowl?

:>> Now more than 25 wildfires are burning in the North Carolina mountains, mostly in remote areas, due to a severe drought (no rain in more than two months). A few light showers are expected today. Most of the fires are southwest of Asheville with 40,000+ acres burning in just the last couple of weeks. Southeast of Asheville, wildfires that have closed Chimney Rock Park, Lake Lure (pic above) and South Mountains State Park. There are no fires near the city of Asheville or Biltmore - just seeing and smelling a little smoke. All major highways are open. All state parks in the area are closed so their rangers can help with fires (includes Mt. Mitchell, Lake James and Gorges).

The Lake Lure and South Mountains fires continue to grow quickly (read more below). Currently in the Nantahala National Forest in Western North Carolina, more than 1,000 firefighters and support staff from more than 40 states and territories are working to suppress 23 forest fires. Many of these locations are 20 inches below normal for the year. With all the dry leaves on the ground and very low humidity, fires have plenty of fuel. Burning bans cover most of our mountains - including Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Heavy smoke is settling into some valleys and many of our small towns, including Franklin and Robbinsville areas. Crews have saved 100+ homes on the Tellico and Ferebee fires to date. No homes have been destroyed yet.

Evacuations include sections of Lake Lure, most of Chimney Rock Village and areas near the Nantahala Gorge (Swain, Macon and Graham Counties). Stay away from this area for the next week. Also stay away from the Nantahala Gorge (popular summer whitewater rafting area). The governor has issued a state of emergency to aid in fighting the fires. To make matters worse, many of these fires appear to be the result of arson. <<​

More details on each one at the link

There are no fires reported around here but it's impossible to ignore. You can't look across your own yard without looking through a smoky haze. You can literally taste it. So we're not in danger from something encroaching but at the same time we're surrounded by woods and in the same drought conditions so something could erupt at any time.

First saw this haze, coming from about 100 miles to the west, on (appropriately) Election Day. The air seemed to clear after that but it's now worse than ever. Anyone else seeing this?


Stay safe out there, keep alert and pray for rain.

At some point in the not so distant future, these recurring droughts in much of the world will affect food crops to the point where we will see less and less on the food shelves at the supermarkets. Once that happens, perhaps the global climate change deniers will finally wake up, too late though, I imagine.

 

[Pogo]

look for spruce pine on the map....pogo is south of there...i am north of there....each of us about 30 minutes in those directions from spruce pine...

I'm west of there actually, and not that far -- is there fire in SP?

Yanno I looked on the eastern horizon the other day (Thursday) and saw smoke over that way. Everybody did. I forgot to look into it.

 

[LuckyDuck]

:>> Now more than 25 wildfires are burning in the North Carolina mountains, mostly in remote areas, due to a severe drought (no rain in more than two months). A few light showers are expected today. Most of the fires are southwest of Asheville with 40,000+ acres burning in just the last couple of weeks. Southeast of Asheville, wildfires that have closed Chimney Rock Park, Lake Lure (pic above) and South Mountains State Park. There are no fires near the city of Asheville or Biltmore - just seeing and smelling a little smoke. All major highways are open. All state parks in the area are closed so their rangers can help with fires (includes Mt. Mitchell, Lake James and Gorges).

The Lake Lure and South Mountains fires continue to grow quickly (read more below). Currently in the Nantahala National Forest in Western North Carolina, more than 1,000 firefighters and support staff from more than 40 states and territories are working to suppress 23 forest fires. Many of these locations are 20 inches below normal for the year. With all the dry leaves on the ground and very low humidity, fires have plenty of fuel. Burning bans cover most of our mountains - including Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Heavy smoke is settling into some valleys and many of our small towns, including Franklin and Robbinsville areas. Crews have saved 100+ homes on the Tellico and Ferebee fires to date. No homes have been destroyed yet.

Evacuations include sections of Lake Lure, most of Chimney Rock Village and areas near the Nantahala Gorge (Swain, Macon and Graham Counties). Stay away from this area for the next week. Also stay away from the Nantahala Gorge (popular summer whitewater rafting area). The governor has issued a state of emergency to aid in fighting the fires. To make matters worse, many of these fires appear to be the result of arson. <<​

More details on each one at the link

There are no fires reported around here but it's impossible to ignore. You can't look across your own yard without looking through a smoky haze. You can literally taste it. So we're not in danger from something encroaching but at the same time we're surrounded by woods and in the same drought conditions so something could erupt at any time.

First saw this haze, coming from about 100 miles to the west, on (appropriately) Election Day. The air seemed to clear after that but it's now worse than ever. Anyone else seeing this?


Stay safe out there, keep alert and pray for rain.

At some point in the not so distant future, these recurring droughts in much of the world will affect food crops to the point where we will see less and less on the food shelves at the supermarkets. Once that happens, perhaps the global climate change deniers will finally wake up, too late though, I imagine.

Funny, instead of trying to work on Global Warming, companies like Koch are working on genetically modifying crops so they grow in less deep soil, with less water, and yield higher crops.

Yeah and at some point there wouldn't be enough moisture in the soil to support much of anything.

 

[Lewdog]

:>> Now more than 25 wildfires are burning in the North Carolina mountains, mostly in remote areas, due to a severe drought (no rain in more than two months). A few light showers are expected today. Most of the fires are southwest of Asheville with 40,000+ acres burning in just the last couple of weeks. Southeast of Asheville, wildfires that have closed Chimney Rock Park, Lake Lure (pic above) and South Mountains State Park. There are no fires near the city of Asheville or Biltmore - just seeing and smelling a little smoke. All major highways are open. All state parks in the area are closed so their rangers can help with fires (includes Mt. Mitchell, Lake James and Gorges).

The Lake Lure and South Mountains fires continue to grow quickly (read more below). Currently in the Nantahala National Forest in Western North Carolina, more than 1,000 firefighters and support staff from more than 40 states and territories are working to suppress 23 forest fires. Many of these locations are 20 inches below normal for the year. With all the dry leaves on the ground and very low humidity, fires have plenty of fuel. Burning bans cover most of our mountains - including Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Heavy smoke is settling into some valleys and many of our small towns, including Franklin and Robbinsville areas. Crews have saved 100+ homes on the Tellico and Ferebee fires to date. No homes have been destroyed yet.

Evacuations include sections of Lake Lure, most of Chimney Rock Village and areas near the Nantahala Gorge (Swain, Macon and Graham Counties). Stay away from this area for the next week. Also stay away from the Nantahala Gorge (popular summer whitewater rafting area). The governor has issued a state of emergency to aid in fighting the fires. To make matters worse, many of these fires appear to be the result of arson. <<​

More details on each one at the link

There are no fires reported around here but it's impossible to ignore. You can't look across your own yard without looking through a smoky haze. You can literally taste it. So we're not in danger from something encroaching but at the same time we're surrounded by woods and in the same drought conditions so something could erupt at any time.

First saw this haze, coming from about 100 miles to the west, on (appropriately) Election Day. The air seemed to clear after that but it's now worse than ever. Anyone else seeing this?


Stay safe out there, keep alert and pray for rain.

At some point in the not so distant future, these recurring droughts in much of the world will affect food crops to the point where we will see less and less on the food shelves at the supermarkets. Once that happens, perhaps the global climate change deniers will finally wake up, too late though, I imagine.

Funny, instead of trying to work on Global Warming, companies like Koch are working on genetically modifying crops so they grow in less deep soil, with less water, and yield higher crops.

Yeah and at some point there wouldn't be enough moisture in the soil to support much of anything.

Not to mention they have no idea what eating those genetically modified crops will do to our human bodies and our genetic structure we pass on to future generations.

 

[LuckyDuck]

Much of our crops in winter months come from outside the country; once droughts affect their nations crop outputs enough, they would no longer sell to the U.S., but rather ensure that the crops are there for their own populace.

 

[LuckyDuck]

:>> Now more than 25 wildfires are burning in the North Carolina mountains, mostly in remote areas, due to a severe drought (no rain in more than two months). A few light showers are expected today. Most of the fires are southwest of Asheville with 40,000+ acres burning in just the last couple of weeks. Southeast of Asheville, wildfires that have closed Chimney Rock Park, Lake Lure (pic above) and South Mountains State Park. There are no fires near the city of Asheville or Biltmore - just seeing and smelling a little smoke. All major highways are open. All state parks in the area are closed so their rangers can help with fires (includes Mt. Mitchell, Lake James and Gorges).

The Lake Lure and South Mountains fires continue to grow quickly (read more below). Currently in the Nantahala National Forest in Western North Carolina, more than 1,000 firefighters and support staff from more than 40 states and territories are working to suppress 23 forest fires. Many of these locations are 20 inches below normal for the year. With all the dry leaves on the ground and very low humidity, fires have plenty of fuel. Burning bans cover most of our mountains - including Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Heavy smoke is settling into some valleys and many of our small towns, including Franklin and Robbinsville areas. Crews have saved 100+ homes on the Tellico and Ferebee fires to date. No homes have been destroyed yet.

Evacuations include sections of Lake Lure, most of Chimney Rock Village and areas near the Nantahala Gorge (Swain, Macon and Graham Counties). Stay away from this area for the next week. Also stay away from the Nantahala Gorge (popular summer whitewater rafting area). The governor has issued a state of emergency to aid in fighting the fires. To make matters worse, many of these fires appear to be the result of arson. <<​

More details on each one at the link

There are no fires reported around here but it's impossible to ignore. You can't look across your own yard without looking through a smoky haze. You can literally taste it. So we're not in danger from something encroaching but at the same time we're surrounded by woods and in the same drought conditions so something could erupt at any time.

First saw this haze, coming from about 100 miles to the west, on (appropriately) Election Day. The air seemed to clear after that but it's now worse than ever. Anyone else seeing this?


Stay safe out there, keep alert and pray for rain.

At some point in the not so distant future, these recurring droughts in much of the world will affect food crops to the point where we will see less and less on the food shelves at the supermarkets. Once that happens, perhaps the global climate change deniers will finally wake up, too late though, I imagine.

Funny, instead of trying to work on Global Warming, companies like Koch are working on genetically modifying crops so they grow in less deep soil, with less water, and yield higher crops.

Yeah and at some point there wouldn't be enough moisture in the soil to support much of anything.

Not to mention they have no idea what eating those genetically modified crops will do to our human bodies and our genetic structure we pass on to future generations.

If the genetically modified edible crop is modified genetically with another "edible" crop, I have no problem with it. It's once they start tinkering with plants that were never meant to be eaten and combining them with edible crops that I have an issue with.

 

[Lewdog]

:>> Now more than 25 wildfires are burning in the North Carolina mountains, mostly in remote areas, due to a severe drought (no rain in more than two months). A few light showers are expected today. Most of the fires are southwest of Asheville with 40,000+ acres burning in just the last couple of weeks. Southeast of Asheville, wildfires that have closed Chimney Rock Park, Lake Lure (pic above) and South Mountains State Park. There are no fires near the city of Asheville or Biltmore - just seeing and smelling a little smoke. All major highways are open. All state parks in the area are closed so their rangers can help with fires (includes Mt. Mitchell, Lake James and Gorges).

The Lake Lure and South Mountains fires continue to grow quickly (read more below). Currently in the Nantahala National Forest in Western North Carolina, more than 1,000 firefighters and support staff from more than 40 states and territories are working to suppress 23 forest fires. Many of these locations are 20 inches below normal for the year. With all the dry leaves on the ground and very low humidity, fires have plenty of fuel. Burning bans cover most of our mountains - including Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Heavy smoke is settling into some valleys and many of our small towns, including Franklin and Robbinsville areas. Crews have saved 100+ homes on the Tellico and Ferebee fires to date. No homes have been destroyed yet.

Evacuations include sections of Lake Lure, most of Chimney Rock Village and areas near the Nantahala Gorge (Swain, Macon and Graham Counties). Stay away from this area for the next week. Also stay away from the Nantahala Gorge (popular summer whitewater rafting area). The governor has issued a state of emergency to aid in fighting the fires. To make matters worse, many of these fires appear to be the result of arson. <<​

More details on each one at the link

There are no fires reported around here but it's impossible to ignore. You can't look across your own yard without looking through a smoky haze. You can literally taste it. So we're not in danger from something encroaching but at the same time we're surrounded by woods and in the same drought conditions so something could erupt at any time.

First saw this haze, coming from about 100 miles to the west, on (appropriately) Election Day. The air seemed to clear after that but it's now worse than ever. Anyone else seeing this?


Stay safe out there, keep alert and pray for rain.

At some point in the not so distant future, these recurring droughts in much of the world will affect food crops to the point where we will see less and less on the food shelves at the supermarkets. Once that happens, perhaps the global climate change deniers will finally wake up, too late though, I imagine.

Funny, instead of trying to work on Global Warming, companies like Koch are working on genetically modifying crops so they grow in less deep soil, with less water, and yield higher crops.

Yeah and at some point there wouldn't be enough moisture in the soil to support much of anything.

Not to mention they have no idea what eating those genetically modified crops will do to our human bodies and our genetic structure we pass on to future generations.

If the genetically modified edible crop is modified genetically with another "edible" crop, I have no problem with it. It's once they start tinkering with plants that were never meant to be eaten and combining them with edible crops that I have an issue with.

Haha you mean like Seedless grapes? Seedless Watermelons? Bi-color corn?

 

[strollingbones]

no there was a fire in the gorge but that is out.....i think the major fires are all west of us both...southwest mostly....chimney rock would be the closest to us both...the fire in carter county tn was close to me....that is contained for the most part....we just have the same worry as everyone else...any spark will ignite a large ass fire quicky....and we still have winds...so far our air is still good...hows about yours....i figured you are a little west of there....

 

[Pogo]

no there was a fire in the gorge but that is out.....i think the major fires are all west of us both...southwest mostly....chimney rock would be the closest to us both...the fire in carter county tn was close to me....that is contained for the most part....we just have the same worry as everyone else...any spark will ignite a large ass fire quicky....and we still have winds...so far our air is still good...hows about yours....i figured you are a little west of there....

It's pungent here. I'm just about to go take a ride to see what I can see while there's still daylight.

 

[strollingbones]

Cathy Anderson (@cathyanderson27) | Twitter

i grabbed this off twitter.....looking at south mountain state park

 

[strollingbones]

same link.....lake lure fire they have the mandatory evacs going on