Well! Sounds like the fire is perhaps fairly well beaten!

[thewayne]

This afternoon's report sounds pretty optimistic.

"47% contained, 96 acres, the entire area is at Ready level. Crews continue to monitor lines and look for hot spots and are completing hose lays around the perimeter of the fire." Also "We are retaining all resources on the scene at this time."

And this is the best part: "Night shift monitoring will no longer be conducted, however crews will remain camped within 1/2 mile of the incident."

Sounds to me like they are fairly optimistic they have the fire pretty well beat and it won't be spreading.

The weekend is projected to be windy, though the wind is expected to maintain westerly (blowing east) until Monday when it might start blowing easterly. Hopefully they'll have full containment by then, but if it flares before then and breaks containment, that's when Cloudcroft could be in serious danger.

I think I'm going to be moving a few more things down to the storage locker this weekend. I'll try to take Russet down so she knows where it is and how to access it.

Comments

[pondhopper]

That's GOOD news!

[richardf8]

Glad you are safe.

[thewayne]

So far....  Still going to remove some stuff over the weekend.  When they get around 75% containment and the acreage starts going down, I'll be a lot more comfortable.

[silveradept]

Here's hoping the fire stays under control and is defeated soon.

[disneydream06]

47% contained now? SWEEET!!!!!!!!!!
I hope they continue to get it put down.
HUGS, Jon

[acelightning73]

The usual weather patterns (recently) have been rather cyclic, with spasms of high winds, heavy rain, tornadoes, in between spells of pleasant weather. Take a look at what the weather is in San Francisco - it just has to slip over the mountains to get to you.

I heard rumors weeks ago about a way too early tropical storm spinning up in Equatorial waters. But I never heard about it afterwards. All the clues I used for sensing what the weather was likely to do are now irrelevant, and it's hard to recalibrate.