Cavedale Rhônes
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Growing Rhone Varietals on the west slopes of Mt Veeder in the Moon Mt AVA. Local flora and fauna of the Mayacamas. Fire info if anything gets close. Also pics of service dog puppies when we have them. K6GSM
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In response to this post@ai6yr I’m going to go with radiant heat. Before we learned about the 0-5 foot area around houses that collect embers, the gold standard was 30 feet (10 meters) of clearance from the house to large groups of shrubs. You can find videos of the tests online that show that a wood sided building can resist significant radiant heat from 30 feet.
The houses in the center look like they are closer than 30 feet, plus they probably have shrubs and wooden fences separating them for privacy. So if one goes up due to embers, the surrounding ones would be well within the 30 foot zone and could ignite from the radiant heat.
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In response to this post@ai6yr @natesiggard We implemented a LORA mesh overlay with solar powered repeaters and messaging consoles in our canyon for just that reason. However, while the technology is cheap and effective, the social inertia in getting people to learn and use the technology is daunting when there is no emergency. It is a very simple system, but likely it will be relegated to the same backroom shelves alongside the hand crank weather radios they got from donating to NPR. 🙄
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In response to this post@ai6yr Embers scoff at our defensible space. 😬
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In response to this post@ai6yr Our Fire chief in the Mayacamas used to say once you get 30 mph winds in combination with less than 30% relative humidity, you are no longer fire fighters, you are fire spectators. 😬
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@FinchHaven @ai6yr We welcome PGE shutoffs during dangerous wind events. Of course we would rather they hardened their infrastructure sufficiently but that will take decades. In October of 2017 they started 14 fires simultaneously. I’d like to avoid that. 😬
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