It's been raining for about an hour now. I wish I'd brought the watermelon in out of the van before it started. There was no hint at rain when Jason and I went to bed at 3 but when I woke up at 4:30, it was in full-force.
Hopefully this will give the firefighters a boost when it comes to the Dismal Swamp fire. Especially considered it's up to 5,700 acres (9sq miles). But what's crazier is that it was on fire a long time ago for 3 years. YEARS!
Taken from the linked page:
"A fire raged for three years - from 1923 to 1926 - long before it became the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in 1974.
The Great Conflagration consumed nearly 100,000 acres, or 150 square miles, after it was sparked by logging debris at a time when there was extensive logging in the forest.
For perspective, the refuge is 112,000 acres."
Daaaaayyuummmnn!
Those 4 storms lined up I posted about yesterday? One's Hurricane Franklin and has moved well past us. The other three, in order, are now high-potential, medium-potential, and low-potential storms. Those coming close enough to the coast to give us rain should be enough to put the fire out.
But then we'd be doused with tropical storm/hurricane rain. And then the question comes up as to which is the lesser of the evils.
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