Thanks for all the contact from you guys concerning our well being. We are fine and have evacuated our home in Silverton to a borrowed motor-home here at WCCC. We are running on a skeleton crew, Renee is our shipping lady for the first time in 30 years. She is not real fast but she did help design the software and she is quick to pick things up. I am doing much of the packaging, my son Ian was helping but he bailed to Idaho and his younger brother Isaac escaped to AZ, can you blame them? Air quality is dangerous at the shop and worse in Silverton. We have been fostering a special needs young man for a couple of months and he is a little rattled, if you stop by the shop and are greeted by a “secret agent” just roll with it… Nothing phases me anymore and I kind of feel others are in the same boat. Two of my boys have a little business on site here that sells recycled IBC totes and the demand has gone through the roof for those considering how well they work for water storage. We don’t even require them to pay, just chuck them in their truck and go if they don’t have the funds ready to go. In the flood of 96 I was in a mad dash to buy pump equipment and the business owner just said take whatever you need and GO! Still makes me tear up all these years later… If you are in the NW and have a camp trailer or old RV to sell or loan the need is extreme, maybe considering listing it locally and offering free delivery even if you are out of area by a stretch? All hotels, fairgrounds and shelters are maxed.
Thanks so much for the update Don - been thinking about all of you out there.
Man, that is some scary stuff!
What a horrible year this has been!!
- Phillip
Be safe Don, The smoke from the California and Oregon fires has found it’s way north and we are having real bad air. My eyes are burning and we have been advised to wear a good mask when outdoors, but advised to stay inside. We have a fire out near Darrington, about 40 miles away so it is not a current threat to us. I do hope we can get more damp air in from the west to cool things down and dampen things some.
This is the vies from my front porch this morning, visibility was far less then a quarter mile. It is close to a mile now.
Stay safe everybody, help your neighbors and friends, we are all in this together. Be it the fires out here or the storms back east.
Thoughts are with you and everyone in that area, I can’t imagine! we have family around Eugene but so far ok
No fires near here.
But in same place with smoke. Great day and then the smoke haze moved in.
Now that the heat of summer is done.
May be taking the cougar to work more just in case.
Spent most of this summer getting yard cleared of pine needles, manzanita and duff layer removed for more defensible space.
Wow awesome but crazy pictures! I can not imagine the fear wildfires bring! Stay safe out there and hopefully there is no loss of home or business. Hard to imagine a green place like Oregon having such a large fire burning like California.
Glad you’re okay. Please be safe.
Thinking of all you guys up there, it’s been such a bummer to see all the destruction of nearby areas I remember when I lived there, and the smoke looks horrible. Hoping they can save Silver Falls state park and that the fire doesn’t progress any further. I see a little rain is forecast for Tuesday, fingers crossed for that!
Time for a Fire Sale!
Pretty scary situation as of now. Prayers for God to bring on the rain & quench the fires. Y’all stay safe out there.
Scary times. Hopefully we are through them and they are behind us.
I moved my cars to safety last Tuesday. What a job that is… Growing up on the dry side of Oregon makes me always nervous about fire danger.
I have seen it happen too often in my lifetime. Maybe not having so much “stuff” is a good thing! A couple of weeks ago on radio I heard there is a new trend called “Fall cleaning” instead of Spring cleaning. I am ok with that, this is a good excuse to move some stuff along. Less to worry about for the next disaster.
I am lucky and grateful the fire didn’t get to my place. I feel very sad for the folks that cannot say that. This is going to be a long rebuild period. This Sunday, September 20th in Stayton, OR at Regis High School is a cruise-in to help raise funds to support the Santiam Canyon Wildfire Relief Fund.
Smokey weather permitting, I’m going to try and get down there for the cruise-in. Jeez, anything to get out and drive at this point 
“Fall cleaning” also sounds like a great idea. I have so much crap piled up in the garage. I’m tired of it, and it needs to go… to make room for new / different stuff! Very hard to begin though, knowing that it will be a LOT of work :-/
You guys all stay safe down there!