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$4.15/gal at Topaz Lodge yesterday, $4.05 if you paid cash and they have been out of anything but premium twice now this summer. I think the increase in gas prices has put a big wet cloth over the traveling public. I expect to see thousands of those big RVs and trailers (which were sold out...

The Dixie fire is about twice as large as the Tamarack. I also think I saw a larger number stated on the Tamarack but I cannot find it again - maybe it was wishful thinking or a media error. I also wonder if the number of personnel is counting the engines from municipal and volunteer agencies...

Hwy 395 supposedly closed in Bridgeport late yesterday. I say supposedly because I was still seeing trucks early this morning - perhaps sneaking over Sonora Pass? (it is horrifying how many semis still use Sonora) The pyrocumulus yesterday afternoon and evening were bigger and taller than...

I do not believe it is disrespectful or otherwise "wrong" to second guess but sure - I'll go right on up to the command post there in Gardnerville and tell them I am the boss now.

If this fire "hits the farming areas" and I lived in the Gardnerville Ranchos I'd be packing. But then again I packed two bags and have been essentially living out of them since some time back in May. I have an appointment in Gardnerville this afternoon I need to cancel. If Hwy 395 closes I'd...

I think this one is better acted out with voices and movement but you can use your imagination - A Scotsman, an Irishman and an Englishman sit down and order pints of ale. The Englishman finds a fly in his pint and asks the bartender for a fresh glass. The Irishman finds a fly in his pint...

This map may interest you. While the Washiington fire in 2015 came close to Markleeville and something or other in the Monitor Pass area seems to burn every year the Grover Hot Springs and Markleeville area have not burned "recently". But I did notice that the Chris Fire, in the Walker Canyon...

the Tamarack Fire from my front door I have not been able to copy the photos but so far the town of Markleeville is still there as are the facilities at Grover Hot Springs

So, will all this lithium mining have any effect on climate change? I've pulled some quotes, the full article is at...

My housemate said her car looked like it was driving over speed bumps and the gravel in the parking area was bouncing in this quake. edit to add - awakened at 2:49 this morning - 3.5 exceeded my sleepability my housemate said aftershocks from the Loma Prieta went on for six months oh joy

https://maps.nwcg.gov/sa/#/%3F/%3F/38.6899/-119.8397/13 It looks like the fire reached Markleeville last night. I am not sure what to do with all the despair.

I heard the 89 quake over the phone. My sister lived in SF. I had called her to inform her Oakland was the better team.

So you were off Hwy 4 - right? I wonder if the type of rock in between has a different capacity to carry the waves. It is always fascinating to see the maps of where an earthquake was felt.

And a week later the aftershocks keep on keeping on. Apparently I am getting good at sleeping through up to a 3.0 - provided they are quiet. The rumble that often precedes the shaking just makes it worse. I yelped out loud when a 4 came a rumbling and banging while I was having my tea this...

I had heard about coyotes and other wildlife cruising the empty streets in San Francisco and elsewhere but this is very, very interesting; When stay-at-home orders began taking effect around the world, the reduction in noise was so drastic that seismologists saw a decrease in rumblings deep in...

I'll take your word for it. Sierra Buttes Lookout scared me quite enough thank you.

I was married to a very generous and gregarious and enthusiastic man who would invite people to share our camp in the front or the backcountry (he was also an entomologist who would become very exited over microscopic creatures inside of flowers and run around like a little kid showing everyone...

just got a 4.0 aftershock, short, the first I've felt since I got home - don't want to imagine 20 seconds of that (which apparently seemed longer because of the almost immediate aftershock) Yes - an interesting article

also - muddy, stinky well water, a weird dust that hung in the air from the ground up about 4 or 5 feet (even in the house) and these crazy acting bugs that appeared in mass and then disappeared again and when my housemate told me of stepping on one and tiny worms squiggled away I told her she...

The epicenter of this quake was less than two miles from my house in Walker, in Little Antelope Valley. It was rather shallow. I was in Emigrant Wilderness. I felt the quake while sitting by a lake along the crest of the Sierra - like I was lifted (but not dropped) and then shaken. While John...

A medium to large sized dog which is kept confined and not adequately exercised is going to be a dangerously unhappy and unsocialized animal. There was a Rottweiler up the road who terrorized the neighborhood any time he got out - which was frequent. IMO the license needs to happen BEFORE the...

the latest advice about camping near marmots is to pee further away from camp - supposedly the marmots come for the pee (salts) and stay for the cork handle on the fly rod (personal experience - ate part of the line too) or shoes or ......... and that was even with a dog sleeping right next to...

different opinions and different experiences do not necessarily equal an "argument" unless one wishes to frame it that way and IMO attempting to impugn the character of people you don't really know by stating "IF you care about impacting an area...." is a great way to instigate an argument

My dog is not my pet. He is my very best friend.

If dog pee altered wild animal behavior gardening would be soooo much easier. I live on the edge of a "wild area". I did not bring the squirrels and rabbits and deer and bear and skunks and foxes and coyotes and bobcats and cougars with me so I think it is safe to say that the wildlife comes...