We've had the Cerro Pelado fire burning here in the Santa Fe National Forest for about two weeks. It's been steadily moving toward the Los Alamos National Lab and reached a point where the labs and schools have all shut down.
We're in the ready stage for evacuation for Los Alamos. Took some stuff down to Santa Fe and we're staging other stuff in the living room
This has been an interesting ride. After a potential tragedy looms for long enough I really find myself only caring about the important stuff and letting insurance worry about the rest. A week ago we wished we had a horse trailer to load up with stuff, but now we're worn down to only really caring about what we can fit in the Jeep and the truck.
Some of the forest areas where I hunted elk and small game last year are gone.
If the evac isn't mandatory then I will probably send my wife and kid to Albuquerque, and I'll stick around till it either becomes dangerous, the air quality gets real bad, or they make it mandatory. Don't worry, I'm NOT a hero and NOT looking to try to save "stuff". Just don't know how I'll handle weeks of sitting around someone else's city home with nothing to do and all day to do it. Plus the chickens and dog complicate things.
Don't pray for us, we'll be all right, but instead send your thoughts or prayers to the fire fighters on the front lines.
