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Thunderbeast

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3. I can not see Mt. Hood (Wy'East) from my Portland deck

Reply to CentralMass (Original post)

Tue Jun 22, 2021, 11:37 AM

Jun 2021

Smoke from a fire on the Warm Springs Reservation has nearly obscured the peak.

I also have a view of the Columbia Gorge...a verdant landscape until three years ago when a teenager with a smoke bomb burned it down. Last fall, many Cascade landscapes were destroyed by fire.

Weekend temperatures in the normally temperate Willamette Valley are forecasted to be over 105°.

Adding fireworks (mostly illegal) to these conditions is a recipe for another conflagration.

Sadly the soverign reservations use imported fireworks as a cash cow. It has proven VERY destructive.

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Fireworks go on sale here in (drought stricken) Oregon tomorrow through July 6th. What could [View all] CentralMass Jun 2021 OP

And fire season is already upon us -- even in western Oregon -- earlier than usual. KPN Jun 2021 #1

Hi KPN myformer MA compatriot. I moved here at the end of 2014. CentralMass Jun 2021 #4

I voted somewhere and maybe just Eugene where all sales voted banned. LizBeth Jun 2021 #2

I can not see Mt. Hood (Wy'East) from my Portland deck Thunderbeast Jun 2021 #3

I climbed up to Larch Mountain from the Multinomah Falls parking lot on CentralMass Jun 2021 #7

I live on the bank of the river that runs through Portland. Grasswire2 Jun 2021 #5

107? I so hope they are exaggerating. Maybe really only 102 degrees. Shrike47 Jun 2021 #6

The power was out for a while last night in Oregon City-Gladstone, I hear. Grasswire2 Jun 2021 #8

WA has even looser fireworks laws. Many Oregonians come up and stock up captain queeg Jun 2021 #9