We are safe.  Fire about 2 miles from Hill.  It all depends on Wind.  

Thank you all for the love….love back

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  1. Nancy Avatar

    May the love of so many hold you and yours during this time.
    xo

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  2. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Beautifully said Nancy.

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  3. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Grace, feel the strength and love vibes that are floating your way. We anxiously watch the news and are so relieved to here you are all safe.

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  4. Faith Avatar

    (((((((((((((Grace))))))))))))
    I’ve no words. You’re in my prayers. Stay safe.

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  5. Jen NyBlom Avatar
    Jen NyBlom

    Sending Love and Thoughts of Safety and Calm and Strength to weather thru all of this. Prayers that all will be well, so glad you are in a safe spot!

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  6. jamie Avatar
    jamie

    With you, Grace. Praying for fresh air for you all to breathe. Thanks for the update. love

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  7. vicky davis Avatar

    With fires here in WA, I am ready to go too. Hugs for us all, grace!

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  8. Yvette Avatar

    You too Vicky….my thoughts are with you and all your people…

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  9. Yvette Avatar

    Grace…………

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  10. Nancy Avatar

    Vicky~ May you and yours be safe, be well.
    A co-worker waiting on evacuation orders, we’ll see.
    Pretty unbelievable, yes?
    I like how Yvette puts it…all of us.

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  11. Suzanna Avatar
    Suzanna

    Sending love to you and your family Grace, and prayers for your safety. 🙏🧡🙏

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  12. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    My thoughts too… and love

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  13. jude Avatar

    oh, exhale….

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  14. Beth Avatar

    (((grace))) Adding to the love. Be safe.

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  15. vicky davis Avatar

    Thank you Yvette! One fire in a park in Tacoma WA was too close to one daughters home, thank fully out now. We live close to hiway 16, where many small brush fires have been, but if they get out of hand….
    One town sent the water trucks out to douse yards in neighborhoods, so I wonder why that isn’t done along the hiway where all the dry brush is. Because people still toss their butts out the window.

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  16. vicky davis Avatar

    Thank you Nancy. And yes it is very unbelievable.

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  17. dee Avatar

    Be well. Be safe. Thinking of you, Grace.

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  18. Doris Avatar

    Thinking of you. Hope you stay safe.

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  19. joy in az Avatar

    so glad to hear from you! so scary to watch via the internet, seeing livestreams from the Alert wildfire cameras & satellite imagery as the fire roared down the mts… hoping you were out in time and seeing jude’s post that you were okay… thinking of your post about Puppy coming inside, how odd that was..
    so Yes toward the hill remaining safe, for you & company remaining safe, for the winds to cooperate and containment to happen. Yes.

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  20. Sue in Calgary Avatar
    Sue in Calgary

    Grace’s hill is near the “G” in the caption “Google Earth” https://twitter.com/wildland_zko/status/1304056339786678272?s=20

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  21. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Rain dance in progress, prayers and meditations continue for you and all beings.

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  22. Kristin Freeman Avatar
    Kristin Freeman

    Glad to read that you are safe. Prayers for wind to be friendly and spare your land.

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  23. Deb G Avatar

    Wishing the best for everyone…

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  24. jamie Avatar
    jamie

    dancing with you , michelle

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  25. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    waiting on the other side …

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  26. Saskia Avatar

    my thoughts are with you and yours, may you all stay safe xx

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  27. Nancy Avatar

    Sue, once again, thank you. I keep checking in to see if there is any news. The waiting is hard when the concern is huge. Sigh.

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  28. Sue in Calgary Avatar
    Sue in Calgary

    The good news, and I am sure Grace is not counting her chickens before they hatch, is the fire boundary nearest her hill is not moving closer and the fire in that area Appears to be subsiding. Sort of. However, as she rightly says, it all depends on the wind. I keep checking cameras but they are pretty smokey and the closest one pointing in her hill’s direction is 25 miles away. I might post that one anyway tomorrow.

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  29. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    we wait together … hoping

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  30. Nancy Avatar

    Thanks Sue. I’m sure having trouble finding anything specific to her hill.

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  31. Sue in Calgary Avatar
    Sue in Calgary

    Friday’s incident map. Grace’s hill is southwest of the controlled fire edge (black line) in the bottom left corner https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/photos/CAPNF/2020-08-18-0011-North-Complex/picts/2020_09_11-10.22.00.524-CDT.jpeg.

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  32. Sue in Calgary Avatar
    Sue in Calgary

    Well I was trying to post the small map on this page but that doesn’t seem to be possible. So here is the main page https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6997/. Scroll down and enlarge the small map on the right side of the page.

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  33. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    This morning in New Mexico, stepping outside, the sky is not the usual sky, no blaring sunrises of intense color…when grace lived here, sometimes we would email each other to tell of what our skies looked like, she down south, me in central New Mexico, comparing and contrasting. This morning the sky is blanketed with strands of light, a peachy glow, soft blue and if you could touch the sky, it would feel like flannel, that most comforting of cloth. I’m taking this as a sign that grace, family and the Hill are safe and holding together.

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  34. Acey Avatar

    My thanks too for the posted link updates. This situation is making me CRAZY in the giving up fate to the universe department. I am trying my hardest to float/move/ride energy in the ways I believe grace would wish me to “be” as much for her energetic and emotional needs at this time as my own. But I am going absolutely out of my mind with my heart in my throat at all times.
    thank you so much. I remember when it reached this point the last time it did and people kept circling back here to the comment section in order to stitch together whatever they could glean or had observed. To hold love for her together. To be IN love together …
    (thank you)

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  35. deb Avatar

    Still holding my breath with an eye on the fire maps.

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  36. Kristin Freeman Avatar
    Kristin Freeman

    Dear one, Each day as I follow the progression of the fires, many friends in the Happy Camp area losing everything, I look for any news in the Oroville area, hoping that winds are not pushing the fires closer to your home. May your land be cleared with safe spaces surrounding all dwelling places so that home will welcome you back when it is safe.
    Prayers and positive thoughts going out to you and yours every day, all day.

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  37. Sue in Calgary Avatar
    Sue in Calgary

    Here are cameras – 10 -25 miles away – for now, pointing towards the southmost tip of Lake Oroville near Grace’s hill:
    http://www.alertwildfire.org/tahoe/index.html?camera=Axis-Dulcinea&v=81e004f
    http://www.alertwildfire.org/tahoe/index.html?camera=Axis-Paynes&v=81e004f
    http://www.alertwildfire.org/tahoe/index.html?camera=Axis-LexingtonHill2&v=81e004f
    http://www.alertwildfire.org/tahoe/index.html?camera=Axis-OregonHouse&v=81e004f
    If a camera no longer includes Lake Oroville in its range (see right side map), then it’s direction has been changed so ignore it.

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  38. Sue in Calgary Avatar
    Sue in Calgary

    Tried to post all the cameras and got nothing (see above). So here is the first one. All cameras need to include the southmost part of Lake Oroville in order to cover Grace’s hill. Closest cameras are 10-25 miles away. Here’s the first:
    http://www.alertwildfire.org/tahoe/index.html?camera=Axis-OregonHouse&v=81e004f

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  39. Sue in Calgary Avatar
    Sue in Calgary

    All of the empty comments above are me trying to post camera links. Don’t know the trick to make the links show. This is the best camera 25 miles away from Grace’s Hill and pointing towards it:
    http://www.alertwildfire dot org/tahoe/index.html?camera=Axis-OregonHouse&v=81e004f
    You will need to construct the URL yourself – replace ” dot ” with “.”
    If you want to check other cameras, choose the ones pointing to the southmost tip of Lake Oroville.

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  40. Nancy Avatar

    Kristin, such a warm comment. I’m so sorry for the loss of your friends. I keep thinking of her newly found and loved Cottonwood…may the nearby water protect all that is needed and loved on The Hill.
    xo

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  41. Nancy Avatar

    Our dear Marti, our skies and hearts connect us and hold us in loving care. Be well. xo

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  42. Nancy Avatar

    Link:
    http://www.alertwildfire.org/tahoe/index.html?camera=Axis-OregonHouse&v=81e004f
    Playing around with different views now, tricky
    Thanks again

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  43. Nancy Avatar

    Michelle, I was thinking about your comment here as the newscasters explained what an La Nina year will mean for us.

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  44. Acey Avatar

    Me too, Nancy – I made a special little prayer rock on personal altar space for that cottonwood tree as soon as we knew she evaced. The tree is loved.

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  45. bethmark@frontiernet.net Avatar
    bethmark@frontiernet.net

    welp, we here in southern oregon are in the same throws, fire is within a mile or less of our home. all are evacuated but, we can’t go. it’s so convuluted. we stay home.
    at some point, we just settle with what is. soon we may have a back fire that will determine the safety of our shared environ.
    good fortune, planet Earth.
    Hermosa.

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  46. grace Forrest Avatar

    please TELL!
    Why the Choice NOT TO GO?????????????????????????

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  47. bethmark@frontiernet.net Avatar
    bethmark@frontiernet.net

    well, thats hard and complicated…. Experience, Steadfastness to land for 50 years, husband’s Determination, Systems we’ve set in place, swallowing Fear, a very fine Community that sticks together.
    It is now nearly 2 weeks later. Our homes are standing but much has burned. Fire could still wrap around and get us. Exhausted to the max, but still willing to do what can be done.
    We are connected Grace. someday we will meet, when we come to Chico to harvest persimmons and citrus.
    stay well and strong,
    hermosa (beth)

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  48. grace Forrest Avatar

    hermosa.
    yes.nearly 2 weeks it’s been. I go back during the day,
    there is such a FEELING to that
    “fire could still wrap around and get us”
    they have been unable to stabilize areas around us…spot fires breaking out continuing in impossible rough terrain
    We have not much at all in place…just some 3 small years of effort…not much at all, but when i go Give Water today i will want to stay.
    the thought of you coming to Chico for Persimmons and citrus…appearing in body. I exhale long and slow.
    Such Love to you

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