The Cerro Pelado Fire in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico is threatening Los Alamos because of unprecedented, sustained and extremely severe northeast winds. Here at Cochiti Lake, we are still not in immediate danger. But that is no guarantee should the wind change because the southern edge of the fire is only about 6 miles from town.
Planes and helicopters have been scooping water from Cochiti Lake to fight the fire. They have been at it all day long for days. The fire is expected to burn for several weeks or more. Drought is also severe and coupled with the strong wind, the situation is dangerous all over the state.
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| Photo taken by a neighbor two nights aago |
Speaking of drought...the hubs, Ranger Leon was helping with trail maintenence in an area west of us and putting up botanical signs to identiy the plants along the trail. They could not find a living specimen of prickly pear cactus on the trail and actually had to go to a greenhouse that specialized in native plants to purchase a prickly pear cactus to plant along the trail. The drought is pretty bad when cactus are dying in the desert for lack of water.
4 comments:
I hope the winds do not shift! And that's pretty bad, having to plant a cactus from a greenhouse out in nature for the tourists! Sheesh, what's happening with our world? (rhetorical question)
Now only six miles away. I hope that’s as close as it gets.
What Debra said. Good time to do a rain dance.
Here's hoping winds don't shift and firefighters get the upper hand.
Stay safe.
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