#oregon fire

So I moved to California less than a week ago from the midwest and I’ve never experienced wildfires. I saw them burning up an entire mountainside. The air here smells like a campfire. Please consider contributing to some relief funds for those affected

Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/about-us/our-work/disaster-relief/wildfire-relief.html

Los Angeles community relief: https://www.calfund.org/wildfire-relief-fund/

Undocumented Immigrants in Northern California: https://www.immigrantfundca.org/make-a-donation

Direct relief for victims of the fires (California): https://cpf.salsalabs.org/save-donate/index.html

I don’t know when I will be able to visit the place I grew up again

I don’t know how much of it will be left and how much will be ash

10% of Oregon has evacuated due to wildfires.

My childhood home is okay for now but the fires are closer and more severe than ever before. There will be big stretches of burnt ground in the surrounding area next time I see it

Part of me wonders if there will be a next time

I don’t know when the pandemic will be contained enough to allow travel

I don’t know if the next fire will be closer and destroy big parts of the town I grew up in, or even my childhood home

i cannot overstate how fucking terrifying the oregon fires are right now. the sky is a sick yellow-gray. I can’t breathe without getting dizzy and an incredible pain in my head, and i’m on the other side of portland. i’m chronically ill, as is my mom, and this might do some real damage, i’m scared. the pictures are a gut-punching inferno, 3200 acres - thirty two hundred, that’s thirty two hundred-acre woods, and that’s terrible - like my brain can hardly quite comprehend that all of that is fucking on fire currently, my family went on a road trip like 3 weeks ago and it was fine, and now it’s all burning, and thank god i have an air mask because i actually cannot breathe without it and a lot of people don’t have that, and all this fucking smoke and fire on top of the current political also-a-garbage-fire, a garbage fire the entire country wide...

like... shit. I wrote a book about this because it is honestly one of my worst fears and it feels like it’s coming true.

so i know we’re all freaking out about hurricanes (and rightly fucking so, holy shit) but. keep us in mind okay? 

This morning at historic Multnomah Falls 9/6 💚🌲 Lots of agencies working together for a common goal. Still lots of green left!

Taken from Facebook( via Google Maps)