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Post by Railroad on Aug 27, 2013 9:56:16 GMT -6
The PHOENIX INN West Resort is being threatened by the wildfire currently plaguing Yosemite National Park. The PI resort, located (hand carved, actually) in the face of Half Dome, has been evacuated temporarily and will reopen to current members and their designated guests when the situation improves.
A skeleton security crew remains behind to shoot looters.
The resort has all the usual amenities found in any PHOENIX INN facility (bars, gaming parlors, debauchery areas, hot tubs, indoor road racing course, luxury penthouses) and there are expansion plans for the near future.
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Post by Grey Mouser on Aug 28, 2013 18:40:39 GMT -6
I think DoE is handling the security arrangements at the resort Things should be in good hands.
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Post by Railroad on Aug 28, 2013 20:59:13 GMT -6
He has some top men on the case, yes.
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Post by oldwrench on Sept 3, 2013 19:10:41 GMT -6
Why worry. Isn't this why we have insurance? I would say we remodel after the fire has passed and open up a modest but quaint brewer and brat house inside the casino. Makes for a nice pleasant evening for guests and members.
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Post by Grey Mouser on Sept 3, 2013 20:35:00 GMT -6
I'm all for it. Sounds like a wonderful idea. In fact we'll incorporate it into all the PI locations. Are you listening DoE?
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Post by daddyofeq on Dec 30, 2013 9:58:05 GMT -6
He has some top men on the case, yes.
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Post by daddyofeq on Dec 30, 2013 10:11:47 GMT -6
One of my friends and his wife had to evacuate their house at Pine Mountain Lake, at the west end of the fire. It came to within 1 1/4 miles of their home. Another friend a few miles to the south had everything packed and evacuated his horses to a ranch about 25 miles away.
On the fourth day the fire really took off and burned 57,000 acres. The smoke cloud went up to almost 50,000 ft. I could see it from the top of the Oakland hills, more than 100 miles away.
I had a couple of pictures of that fire, but forgot how to post them in this forum.
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Post by daddyofeq on Dec 30, 2013 10:19:49 GMT -6
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Post by daddyofeq on Dec 30, 2013 10:21:44 GMT -6
Taken 10 miles west of the fire early on the day of the big blow up
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Post by daddyofeq on Dec 30, 2013 10:24:46 GMT -6
We had a fire on Mt. Diablo in early Sept. It burned about 2,500 acres (about 1/100 of the acreage the Yosemite fire burned ) Here is a photo I took from about 3 miles away - [9d53e-fafa-4275-ad72-654b25aa9b3a_zps2ffb82d9.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
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Post by daddyofeq on Mar 16, 2014 22:06:07 GMT -6
My older brother toured some of the Yosemite fire area with a friend of his who is a forester for the Hetch Hetchy water district. Already, brush is starting to sprout and grow. The problem is, much of that area burned in '87 (over 100,00 acres in that one) and brush like chaparral, manzanita, sagebrush, etc. replaced pine forest after that fire. It will be the same thing in about 20 years or so.
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