That's the hood I grew up in. Gonna look a lot different the next time I go home. I hope everyone is staying safe.
Probably because the winds are coming from the gorge. We got trees down over here just around the corner.
We live in West Salem hills and we lost power for 6 hours last night. Several thousand did this morning, at 8am it looke like the end of the world outside. Darker than the eclipse with a huge dark cloud of smoke hanging about 2000 feet up. It's settling now and the smell of smoke is heavy outside fires all over to the east, north, and west of us within a 100 mile radius
For centuries, settlers suppressed the Native burning and wildfires that enriched and protected Western ecosystems. Four experts explain why we need it back.
I'm in Oregon City and we have blue skies overhead, but I can see the line of smoke just off to the south of us.