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I wanted to, but I knew I was going to get up and start yelling, that agency types' knees would start buckling and the blather would thicken and attenuate and their bodies would not resist the orders from their feet to run. At least half my fellow citizens would be looking at me with big cow eyes and the other half would be scowling about how I could be so disrespectful to heroes who have dedicated their lives to saving us.
TRANSLATIONI couldn't face it. It has almost no chance of effectiveness, and I have no support. I'm trying to think of a less public way to attack the root problem.
ACRES: 15,014 | PERCENT CONTAINED: 19%
Personnel: 601 | Crews: 6 | Dozers: 8 | Engines: 36 | Tankers: 2 | Helicopters: 4 | Tenders: 17
Fires: Bear – 4,280 acres | Coon – 4,892 acres | Peak – 5,124 acres | Feeder – 718 acres
Retardant is being used, and burn operations to secure lines because they are fun. Except the fire activity doesn't care because the lines are not secure. Basically, what we've done is station people along watercourses far from the fires, dozed some lines far from the fires, where terrain permits, dropped water on things where it doesn't, and we have been waiting for everything inside this "perimeter" to reach it. Now that it's getting away from us, we're adding poison.
No. Really. I have been here and done this. I've ripped up ten t-shirts.
Not even the most comprehensive victory in the field alleviates The Problem.
always and any time....
