A few miles as the crow flies from Chelan, Wenatchee, the Methow valley. Last summer the Methow saw the largest fire in Washington history with many homes lost including lower income /affordable housing; this summer started with a bang when 23 homes on the edge of the city of Wenatchee and one fruit warehouse and a recycling center within the city burned; now the Methow is on fire again with 3 firefighters losing their lives yesterday.
My daughter works for the Forest Service in their "expanded" dispatch, which is called out when all hell breaks loose. At it is right now.
In '94 we lost our home to a wildfire here, thinking it was kind of a one-off.
We lost our irrigation in August this year - when we first moved to this property it lasted through November when it froze out.
We are on the front line of climate change. We are considering a move, though we hate to leave the place we love, we've built, and have nurtured back to health after its own devastating fire 20+ years ago. Odd to think of who might actually buy here, although the human memory can be very short-lived and powerful in its self-deception.
Hard, scary, confusing times. No self-pity here, more like, sharing in the universal experience of human struggle and uprootedness. As baby boomers, we managed to escape most of that - war, famine, displacement - thoughout our lives. Well, shit's about to get real, now!!
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