jamesdeluxe
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Fair enough. I was relying purely on anecdotal evidence.
Lake Minnewaska Fire
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Peter Minde
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We have droughts in the east and you never know. One particularly dry year, I picked up a cigarette butt on Beaufort Ridge (south of Sterling Forest) that was still burning. Amazing.Maybe I don't get out enough but I always wondered why they had these fire-danger signs in the east. Other than this summer's abnormally dry conditions, do they ever register anything but "low"?
jamesdeluxe
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Right. For someone who's lived out west, it's baffling that the forest canopy can be mostly green while the floor is a tinderbox.
Brownski
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I went for an explore around Fahnestock a few autumns ago and wandering through the campground, we found three or four smoking fire pits at empty campsites. I must have spent an accumulated forty minutes walking back and forth to water spigots to douse them. I think we only had a couple one liter bottles on us.
Benny Profane
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The tops of entire hills around here (Putnam, Upper Fairfield) have gone dead and brown. Foliage season is going to suck.
Took a ride over the mountain for lunch in New Paltz yesterday, there were many signs that the park was closed and many many cones set up on both sides of the road to keep people from parking and walking in. A state trooper was at the gate too. Good that it will reopen tomorrow.
It poured all night so that’s good for the fires. Drove past the Napanoch one every day last week on my way to work. Helicopters flying and dumping water all day.
There’s a fire somewhere on the Shawangunk ridge at least every two or three years it seems.
It poured all night so that’s good for the fires. Drove past the Napanoch one every day last week on my way to work. Helicopters flying and dumping water all day.
There’s a fire somewhere on the Shawangunk ridge at least every two or three years it seems.
