from Wiki: A Red Flag Warning is a forecast warning issued by the United States National Weather Service to tell area firefighting and land management agencies that conditions are ideal for wildland fire ignition and propagation. It is especially common in the hills of California in mid to late summer. After drought conditions, and when humidity is very low, and especially when high or erratic winds which may include lightning are a factor, the Red Flag Warning becomes a critical statement for firefighting agencies, which often alter their staffing and equipment resources dramatically to accommodate the forecast risk. To the public, a Red Flag Warning means high fire danger with increased probability of a quickly spreading vegetation fire in the area within 24 hours.
The weather criteria for fire weather watches and red flag warnings varies with each Weather Service Office’s warning area based on the local vegetation type, topography, and distance from major water sources but usually includes the daily vegetation moisture content calculations, expected afternoon high temperature, afternoon minimum relative humidity and daytime wind speed.
Outdoor burning bans may also be proclaimed by local law and fire agencies based on Red Flag Warnings.
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Vermont is under a red flag warning all day tomorrow (and probably was today but I didn't check the weather until tonight).
So what is our IDIOT neighbour from the flatlands (below New England) doing today? Burning brush!
If we smell smoke tomorrow, we're sicking the local fire warden on him. No mercy. This neighbour is the guy who chopped down a beautiful white pine so he could have sunlight on his house. If he had moved the house downhill, he would have not placed it practically on the property line (despite having ten acres) nor would he have had to chop the tree down. He encroaches on our yard even though we have repeatedly pointed out the markers and have offered to have things resurveyed. So, if his house goes up in flames because of his ill-timed burning, so will ours.
Yeah, even in Vermont, there can be neighbour problems.
GRUMP.
4 comments:
We have a ton of no burn warnings... someone would have to be mad.
Clearly they are.
Sending prayers to your corner of VT.
"someone would have to be mad."
No, just incredibly narcissistic and stubborn that he is right and knows everything about nature there is to know.
Yes, of course your neighbor's an idiot--but weren't you just under feet of snow like, yesterday?
Go get 'im.
I tried to burn down the neighborhood today while getting rid of old papers from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Since I've been burning the leaves and grass for years, I know where the fire will go and how to control it. It can only go laterally and that space is only about 25 feet wide and wraps around the pond. So I got my shovel and put out the perimeter. Meanwhile my neighbor was fishing and yelled at me. He wanted me to let it burn. We may burn it all eventually but not until we have more rain. I wouldn't have burned today had we not had a bit of rain yesterday. And I never burn if there is nobody else around.
When I first moved here, there was a working farm across the road. Several times I helped put out fires to keep from burning down the woods. The farmer would light them then go off to work. I'm told he burned his fences regularly but he died a couple of years after I moved in.
Praying this neighbor learns without doing it the hard way and jeopardizing you and Compa!
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