Yep, they were telling my wife the entire town is gone and they are trying to get out.
I didn't know about the fires down south. Man, it seems like the entire state is on fire
Well glad he’s ok....having never been to his house I don’t know where he’s at 100%. Seems from what I’m told it came down upper north fork. Gene’s Meats is gone and flames near the gas station. This is near the Lyons/Mehama junction off hwy 22. Genes is a staple.
Have another friend near it, I’m sure his home is lost. No answer.
Private property. TX is a different country in this respect. Well, every state W of CO is, in this respect. Same thing for mountain biking, you had to pay at many places to ride. Not all. The whole public land thing is totally new to me here in the PNW.
Technically US Congress established Yellowstone and President Grant signed it into law in 1872. A wee bit before Roosevelt.
It’s probably a common misconception, many probably think of PA as Philly but it’s a tiny spot down in the lower right corner that borders NJ & DE (Philadelphia County is the small greenish county two to the right of Chester County, landmass-wise probably the smallest county in the state). The state is often described as Philly & Pittsburgh with Kentucky in between, a/k/a Pennsyltucky. Interestingly, politically, while we’re a northeastern state that leans blue we’re not reliably counted on as blue, it’s always a battle here & we helped put Reagan in office twice, Bush Senior and most recently Trump. If not for Philly’s massive population we’d be as red as red can get. Although this is the most recent election they pretty much all look like this:
