Fire and Flood

[Non-Typical Solutions]

I am sure there are those with better pics of what has happened and what is going on out there but thought I would share a few from this past week up at Alpine. Got cabin fever waiting for Big Lake road to open up on Saturday. Here are some photos from the cabin back porch from Friday, this is about noon if I remember right.

First sighting of water headed our way after a good rain.

Pushing cows out of the pasture, those cows were not happy.

Flooding over the road to the Chapache development.

Fence that got bent over because of the trash it collected.

Emergency vehicles responding to a group of motorcyclist that got washed off the road about half a mile north of Big Lake turnoff.

Tobaggan Hill in Williamson Valley, or what is left of it.

Elk next to the burn on Big Lake road.

Three Forks.....this one just was horrible, the picture don't tell the story.

Bad burn through this area and logs that have been cut for safety reasons.

The Y off Big Lake road to Middle Mountain and Diamond Rock. I hate to see what that looks like down that road.

 

Very difficult drive, while there is alot of green, it is unacceptable the devastation allowed by this fire.

[Pine Donkey]

Thanks for posting these pictures. My parents took a similar drive today and reported the the ridges alpng 88 and 88B are also severly burned.

[Non-Typical Solutions]

Thanks for posting these pictures. My parents took a similar drive today and reported the the ridges alpng 88 and 88B are also severly burned.

 

One of our drives during the stay was up Auger Canyon there out of Nutrioso. Not sure where your folks live there, but that was a pretty scary sight to see how close those houses were to the burn. Course if you follow the ridge down from the Alpine divide towards Nutrioso it is easy to see what was headed for Nutrioso.