[Magdalen] Prayer Request--Fires

[Ginga Wilder]

Prayers for those in the path of these fires that they will be safe.
Prayers for the loss of such beautiful land and landscape.

I live 25 miles above Charleston, SC, a 4 hour drive from Asheville, NC.
We are in a code orange alert due to smoke from those fires in ETN and WNC.

Ginga Wilder

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 9:51 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> It has been mentioned on the Weather Channel.  Getting more serious for
> those with respiratory problems. Lord have mercy.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In east Tennessee, where I was this past weekend, they are desperate for
> > rain. There are wildfires burning across the mountains everywhere and the
> > air quality was upgraded (or downgraded, depending on how you want to
> look
> > at it) to Code Red this morning, which is the most serious of all. It
> looks
> > like Beijing. My son-in-law sent me video yesterday from the cell tower
> he
> > was on near Pigeon Forge and it was scary. It wasn't too horrible over
> the
> > weekend where we were because there was a breeze, but it stopped
> overnight
> > Sunday and when we left Monday morning the smog in Johnson City was like
> LA
> > or worse. It continued like that all the way through the panhandle of SW
> > Virginia until I-81 make the turn and headed straight north--I think some
> > of that smoke came from wildfires in eastern KY, where some schools are
> > closed today because of smoke. My son-in-law has bad allergies and is
> > having to wear a mask part of the time even up on the towers; my daughter
> > and the boys also have allergies and are having to stay indoors. We were
> > both pretty miserable Monday until we got home. Tennessee's governor has
> > declared a state of emergency across the entire state and instituted a
> burn
> > ban. Several arsonists suspected of starting these fires have also been
> > caught and charged. We in the northern Shenandoah Valley of VA have not
> had
> > any wildfires thus far, possibly because we had a decent amount of rain
> > this past spring and summer, but it's pretty dry now and apparently there
> > are some small fires here and there.
> >
> > All this is a long way of asking for prayers for good, soaking rains for
> > this area, for all people in the paths of these fires, and for the people
> > who are working day and night to fight them. Also that any who have
> started
> > them be found and brought to justice. Thank you.
> >
>