I had this premonition, after all the discussion of
Acts of God on Monday at the
Planning Commission meeting. Although fires are a real rarity here...literally years, I had this feeling all the talk would somehow fast forward us to another fire disaster. Sure enough, as we pulled in the driveway yesterday afternoon(Friday) we could smell the distinct odor of wood burning. Almost with the next step the sirens started to wail, drawing closer to the Lake. From our backyard we could see the
white smoke rising from a home, my guess 2nd tier and in the area of
87th Street. About 15 minutes later the fire appeared to be extinguished. Last evening we decided to scout the situation but were puzzled as we drove down 87th Street. No burned out building, no broken windows...nothing but a slight smoky smell in the air...from who knows where. We stopped one of the local natives who informed us, yes indeed, there had been a fire.
9603 87th Street. A big green dumpster on the property had caught fire.
God? Nope.
Took a tour of
C-point while we were in the neighborhood, sun going down as we walked to the
Pavilion. We had to walk down the road, it was blocked at the little guard shack, new asphalt patching had been done. A woman was playing with her kids on the swings...some folks were fishing off the docks. The doors were up on the new Pavilion, very nice inside. We walked past the cars as we got back into the van...I noticed there were no
WL stickers on the three cars parked there...must have been guests...right?
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4 comments:
apparently the road to C point is now open... watching cars and vans driving down. I need better optics to see if they have stickers or not.
Dan has the right idea, a neighborhood watch from afar, high powered binocs would do the trick...only problem is keeping Lt Dan focused on traffic and stickers...methinks he is a bit of a voyeur.
At what point on the lake were you on 87th street? Perhaps 78th??
perhaps...good to have fact checkers...it was @ 78th Street, for sure.
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