Stop in for a cup of coffee

To be honest, I had thought that when the temperature outside dropped to close to freezing it would be good for the fire. But, apparently this cause the wind to be pushed down towards the grown and sort of increase the speed for it. Last night we had luck and it was very little wind, so it did not matter so much. But, if we had gotten the forecasted wind, the cold would have made it worse the wise people say. Colder air does slow down the fire, but to a minor degree, air speed and moisture in the air counts more than the temperature. And, in places it dropped to 9% moisture last night. Which is very low.

The other problem with the cold is that since several million people still have no electric power many homes are getting very cold. Not all homes here have a chimney and wood stove. And the gas ones depends on electric power to work, and so does the hot water heater. So, now they are trying to change the shelters into warming shelters so people does not freeze to death.

They also hope both to get some power back on during the day, and more tomorrow. And hopefully some of the mandatory evacuation zones will be changed to evacuation warning.

The Kincade fire has reached 30% containment, and only increased about 1000 more acres over night. The conditions for the aircrafts would be fair from what I understand.

And someone else did not have to scoop up my ashes from last night. Which I am eternally grateful for.

Luckily we have had power almost all the time, and the reason I think is that this is a fairly modern area of the city where all the power lines are under ground, while many other areas of the city and in rural areas has light poles and they are shut off.

Bill