Yeah....it's pretty smokey out here in Oregon right now. Options

[raynekat]

Where I live in my county (Clackamas), we are currently at yellow, level 2...meaning you better be packed and ready to evacuate at a moment's notice if the level changes to 3 (red). Crazy times here and the skies are apocalyptic.

We had some scattered controlled wild fires that got hit last week by a couple of days of 60+ mph wind gusts, and the entire state exploded.
Over a million areas burned already and some of the fires have zero containment.

Luckily the weather is cooperating with cooler more humid air and little wind.
Plus we're are supposed to get some needed rain next week.

The 914 is operational/mobile so can be moved to the hotel we have reserved if needed.
The other P car was in the midst of a bunch of work, so was not.
Had it towed yesterday as a precaution to the shop that does all my paint work.
Great guys.

[horizontally-opposed]

I'll second Andy's experience with news and local news when fire is nearby (or even just near enough to smoke you out).

Nixle is good, but I have to say Twitter was—by far—the best way to track the fires and progress fighting them (as well as weather as the fire fighters viewed it…which is all that really matters in these situations).

No, I can't believe I just wrote that, either. But I fired up my old account and started actually surfing it. Figured out a few feeds to follow (e.g. National Weather Service, local sheriff, Cal Fire, etc), and then a couple of hashtags (in our case, #woodwardfire), and bingo. Even then, I was struck by how hard it was to find relevant information in 2020…on the very systems that largely made "news" and reporters largely obsolete.