Paul, by that news the fire is not controlled. If you get the fire close, less than 3-4 km, get out of there, be safe. When you less expect you have it at your door, then it is too late. Fighting a fire is something.

Edit: I believe you have authority contact just for the case you’ll need to be evacuated. Is there high vegetation nearby you?

Dry vegetation due to drought, low humidity, and high winds can result in what is called "extreme fire behavior." That means if a fire gets going, you're not going to stop it, or even slow it down, any time soon.

Sufficiently explosive conditions result in a [url=https://www.weather.gov/mqt/redflagtips]Red Flag Warning[/url]. More stringent restrictions are often imposed locally in extremely hot, dry, windy conditions -- total bans on outdoor burning, grilling, smoking, even mowing (the hot areas of a gasoline-powered mower, or sparks struck by the blades hitting rocks, can start a fire).

I took this picture on June 26, 2012 late in the afternoon, maybe 5:45PM or so. (I did a bit of cropping before uploading it.) I was on the far west side of Colorado Springs, looking almost North. Fire danger was almost at "spontaneous combustion." Very low "fuel moisture" due to drought, combined with high temperatures, extremely low humidity, and strong, gusty winds.

The column of smoke is from the Waldo Canyon Fire, in the Pike National Forest, and was 5-10 miles away. The fire had been burning since the 23rd. The investigation concluded that it was human-caused.

Shortly after this picture was taken, a gust of wind from a small thunderstorm nearby gave the column a shove. Hot smoke, embers, and firebrands came roaring down the hillsides just west of the Mountain Shadows subdivision, which consisted of closely-spaced houses with wooden siding and roofs covered with cedar shake shingles without any fire retardant, situated along a series of cul-de-sacs. The order was issued to the firefighters from Incident Command, "All units, retreat." Mountain Shadows was about to undergo urban renewal.

Almost miraculously, only two people were killed, an elderly couple who couldn't get out in time. Around three hundred and fifty houses burned to the ground.

Ashes, cinders, and a few live coals rained down in the neighborhood where I was. Everything was extinguished before new fires could "spot" there.

[QUOTE=pinhodecarlos;554581]Paul, by that news the fire is not controlled. If you get the fire close, less than 3-4 km, get out of there, be safe. When you less expect you have it at your door, then it is too late. Fighting a fire is something.

Edit: I believe you have authority contact just for the case you’ll need to be evacuated. Is there high vegetation nearby you?[/QUOTE]There are pine trees about 1--2km away from here, otherwise very little. There is a natural firebreak at least a km wide in the Barranco Angustias. Irrigated bananas are very fire-resistant.

The staff at the RdlM have now been evacuated as a precaution.

Fires like this happen every few years.

Quotes from [url]https://www.eldiario.es/canariasahora/lapalmaahora/sociedad/horas-viento-cambie-contener-perimetro-no-pase-lp-1-llegue-tijarafe-puntagorda_1_6177199.html[/url] passed through Google Translate for the benefit of those who read English better than Spanish.

(Torres is the president of the Canarian government; Parra is in charge of the fire service on La Palma.)

[QUOTE]Ángel Víctor Torres specified that within two hours of starting the fire, there were already five air assets attacking the flames - two helicopters from the Government of the Canary Islands and another two and a Kamov from Tenerife - to which other aircraft from Gran Canaria, La Gomera, were added. and of the regional Executive, with what in the end there were eight discharging water in the place.

Between 4:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. this afternoon, seaplanes are expected to arrive from Malaga, Salamanca and Torrejón de Ardoz sent by the Spanish Government, which has been asked for a second Kamov that will join on Monday, as it must go through Morocco according to the anti-Covid protocol.

In addition, tomorrow a brigade sent by the Ministry of Ecological Transition will arrive in La Palma, which will join the 63 troops sent by the Cabildo de Tenerife and the 57 from the Military Emergency Unit arrived from Gran Canaria.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]"It is a topographic fire, determined by the orography, of broken fire, with many outbreaks, which makes its containment difficult," added Torres, who warned that now the winds are weak but in the late evening the prediction suggests that they may have gusts of more than 40 kilometers per hour.

"We have a few hours before the wind changes to contain the perimeter and that it does not pass the LP-1 and reaches Tijarafe and Puntagorda, with a significant impact on the leafy area that would then make it a very, very important fire", the president warned[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]"We are in the most complicated moment of the heat wave, since we can reach 40 degrees, and this afternoon-night the wind can exceed 40-50 kilometers per hour. You cannot lower your guard," warned Parra, who indicated that an evacuation plan is being defined with the Red Cross, if necessary.

His assessment is that it will be impossible to consider the fire stabilized tonight because the weather conditions will not allow it and he alluded to working to contain it until temperatures drop on Monday or Tuesday.

It is now out of extinction capacity, he summarized.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=xilman;554593]There are pine trees about 1--2km away from here, otherwise very little. There is a natural firebreak at least a km wide in the Barranco Angustias. Irrigated bananas are very fire-resistant.

The staff at the RdlM have now been evacuated as a precaution.

Fires like this happen every few years.[/QUOTE]

Most of the fires in Portugal are criminal and i do remember some fire cases going on some family properties where they decided to fight the fire which the outcome was not good, hence being worried about you and J.

The view from our backyard, looking west, a few minutes ago.

[QUOTE=kladner;554568]Here's a bit of Photoshop adjustment layers tweaking. I consider this fairly garish, but I haven't seen the subject matter.[/QUOTE]

Thanks - def. closer to what it looked like in actuality. I was able to do a lesser bit of tweaking along similar lines to yours, simply via the adjust-colors-etc widget in Mac Preview app - comparing my result below to yours, yours gets the blood-red sun and funky cloud colors much better, as well as restoring some green to the foreground vegetation. We got a respite last night as shifting winds blew the plume a few miles north of us, but overnight it shifted back southward.

The thing CA has in common with the other locales appearing on this page, Portugal and La Palma, is a so-called Mediterranean climate, what rain one gets - which is sometimes a lot, but highly variable one year to the next - is during the winter months, which are followed by 6-9 dry months, often with spells of searing heat.

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I'm unsure how they get 196 bits of entropy. I calculated 198 bits.

25 cubes, in 4 orientations, with 6 faces, in 25 positions.
log₂((6×4)²⁵×25!) = 198.3055761...

[url]https://www.wired.com/story/dicekeys-cryptography/[/url]

Even so, 196 or 198 bits won't make any difference when someone catches a glimpse of your master password with their camera, or someone steals it, or you lose it, or you break it and scramble the key, or the border thugs confiscate it, or etc. etc. etc. ... then you are toast.

I'd rather have fewer bits of entropy and [i]know[/i] that it can't be compromised unless I decide to divulge it. Keep it in your head folks.

[size=1]Note how they make the silly comparison about how many solar systems it takes to store 196 bits. Shows how much they are trying to pull the wool over your eyes.[/size]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;554615]Thanks - def. closer to what it looked like in actuality. I was able to do a lesser bit of tweaking along similar lines to yours, simply via the adjust-colors-etc widget in Mac Preview app - comparing my result below to yours, yours gets the blood-red sun and funky cloud colors much better, as well as restoring some green to the foreground vegetation. We got a respite last night as shifting winds blew the plume a few miles north of us, but overnight it shifted back southward.

The thing CA has in common with the other locales appearing on this page, Portugal and La Palma, is a so-called Mediterranean climate, what rain one gets - which is sometimes a lot, but highly variable one year to the next - is during the winter months, which are followed by 6-9 dry months, often with spells of searing heat.[/QUOTE]
I can only wish you the best of winds and luck. Too bad all those T-storms only produced lightning. I'm sure a few strategic downpours could make a big difference, but those aren't in the cards. Hang in there and be as safe as you can.

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