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Hey all, Been a long while since I posted, mostly because I haven't had much new to say or offer. But I'm going to make one last post to offer a cautionary tale of how things can change suddenly a...
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Seldom Seen,
I"m also glad that none of this was terminal. Knowing your inner strength, you'll recover and be seldom seen another day. However, it's incidents like this that can cause us to change course, sometime for good, as we grow out of a need to camp. Jeanie and I lived in greater L.A. for most of our working life, with me working right down town for 38 years at the Music Center. I drove about 1.5M miles in L.A. traffic. In town I never had an accident or ticket. Just lucky. I saw some terrible tragic incidents and lived through two sets of Watts Riots. When the time came to fold our tent, we could hardly wait to X-out the traffic and the hoards, and move OUT of town retiring to a beautiful and peaceful place. We found it. Nevada City, CA; it's not in Nevada. However, we found we just changed some of the particulars. Our town has no traffic signals; not one. Some stop signs. I am lulled into a serene environment that has a........ forest full of pot growers that have caused ALL the homicides in Nevada County this past year. All of them. Yesterday a fire broke out in our heavily wooded area in one of these about a mile downhill from our lane. It was in area inaccessible to vehicles, next to Deer Creek which is still running high. Who would be out in that area and need water for plants? Cal Fire put the hammer down and sent two air tankers and two snorkeled H2O dropping EXMILSPEC helos to douse the flames. No matter where you go or what you do you are still living in a potentially and momentarily dangerous place and there's little you can do about it except, as others have pointed out, sit on the couch and watch TV. This all boils down to dumb luck.
I wish you the dumbest luck in the future, especially for a man that is as close to the natural world as you seem to be.
jefe
I"m also glad that none of this was terminal. Knowing your inner strength, you'll recover and be seldom seen another day. However, it's incidents like this that can cause us to change course, sometime for good, as we grow out of a need to camp. Jeanie and I lived in greater L.A. for most of our working life, with me working right down town for 38 years at the Music Center. I drove about 1.5M miles in L.A. traffic. In town I never had an accident or ticket. Just lucky. I saw some terrible tragic incidents and lived through two sets of Watts Riots. When the time came to fold our tent, we could hardly wait to X-out the traffic and the hoards, and move OUT of town retiring to a beautiful and peaceful place. We found it. Nevada City, CA; it's not in Nevada. However, we found we just changed some of the particulars. Our town has no traffic signals; not one. Some stop signs. I am lulled into a serene environment that has a........ forest full of pot growers that have caused ALL the homicides in Nevada County this past year. All of them. Yesterday a fire broke out in our heavily wooded area in one of these about a mile downhill from our lane. It was in area inaccessible to vehicles, next to Deer Creek which is still running high. Who would be out in that area and need water for plants? Cal Fire put the hammer down and sent two air tankers and two snorkeled H2O dropping EXMILSPEC helos to douse the flames. No matter where you go or what you do you are still living in a potentially and momentarily dangerous place and there's little you can do about it except, as others have pointed out, sit on the couch and watch TV. This all boils down to dumb luck.
I wish you the dumbest luck in the future, especially for a man that is as close to the natural world as you seem to be.
jefe
