FIRE it’s all gone.

[PetraJane]

Hell fire Tinker, I cannot imagine what you are feeling right now, never had anything like that happen in my life, never mind twice.
Stay strong!

[Like Ra]

we lost 2 bedrooms and had a lot of smoke and water damage

wow...

California, USA, is now under evacuation orders.

Are there any safe places in the US? California, Florida are definitely not among them...

[Tinker D]

Now over 300,000 acres, over 4 counties.
About the size of New York, USA.
No containment.

So, if you’re in the middle of a bondage session, what would you do??
Does anyone have super emergency back up plan ??

[Tinker D]

Not really. California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, all on fire.
Nevada is clear, high Desert seems ok.

[Lancer]

we lost 2 bedrooms and had a lot of smoke and water damage

wow...

California, USA, is now under evacuation orders.

Are there any safe places in the US? California, Florida are definitely not among them...

I mean we don’t have really any wildfires in Texas but the hurricanes are really something you have to see to believe, you do get a far in advance warning of them coming though since it takes a week or two for a hurricane forming in the gulf to get to us. So unless you do like week long self bondage you won’t get caught off guard.

[Tinker D]

If it’s anything like a fire tornado, no thanks. I’ve seen it, almost got caught in it.
Granted it’s not as big as your Gulf Tornadoes… God help me… I do not to even imagine a category anything that replaces water with fire.

Cat 4 tornado made of fire sweeping through my state???

There is no emoji for this or words.

[Lancer]

If it’s anything like a fire tornado, no thanks. I’ve seen it, almost got caught in it.
Granted it’s not as big as your Gulf Tornadoes… God help me… I do not to even imagine a category anything that replaces water with fire.

Cat 4 tornado made of fire sweeping through my state???

There is no emoji for this or words.

Eh it’s not like a fire tornado or regular tornado for that matter. The difference is like getting hit by bullets vs getting hit by a car. Tornados and fire are incredibly devastating but are limited in scope and fires are generally fairly manageable with upkeep which used to keep them small affairs. (Not anymore though)

A hurricane tears through power infrastructure and trees like paper and both drops huge amounts of water and raises the local sea level which floods low lying infrastructure but has a hard time trying to actually kill you or destroy your house if you don’t have sick, dead or very large trees around which is fairly avoidable. Mind you at 4-5 it will mess you up hard but most new buildings are built considerably higher and new home and city scale drain projects have greatly mitigated the risks.

A fire tornado the size of a hurricane wouldn’t be sustainable since I don’t think there is enough fuel really anywhere to power them

My worry is that the increasingly dry and hot summers paired with aggressive water restrictions and seemingly very poor management is going to lead to incredibly destructive firestorms. The sad fact that it hits small areas which often don’t have the voting power to actually sway elections also makes it easy for politicians to ignore. Infrastructure is likely the most realistic solution to reduce the damage, metal roofs, no exposed wood, no plants near the house, screened and sealed attics. Doing those repairs and upgrades costs a lot of money though which the people at risk of getting burnt don’t have

After rereading what I just wrote honestly, screw it happening in the future, the devastating fires are aeady here now. And the way it burns every year almost is just threatening to completely wipe out all the communities and people that live there

[Tinker D]

It’s January 10th, 2025….
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California
On Fire. A really bad one. Lots of people evacuated, fire hydrants had little to no water. Lots of rich and famous people lived there… all gone.

I know pretty much how they feel. But I know they lost a lot more than l did.
Let’s hope none of them were practicing any form of bondage at that time.

I just can’t imagine what is going through the mind of someone, in self bondage is thinking while trying to get out of their bondage when their house burning down around them and they can’t escape or call for help.

Seeing that, I’m done with bondage. It’s over for me.

[boundsolo]

It’s January 10th, 2025….
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California
On Fire. A really bad one. Lots of people evacuated, fire hydrants had little to no water. Lots of rich and famous people lived there… all gone.

I know pretty much how they feel. But I know they lost a lot more than l did.
Let’s hope none of them were practicing any form of bondage at that time.

I just can’t imagine what is going through the mind of someone, in self bondage is thinking while trying to get out of their bondage when their house burning down around them and they can’t escape or call for help.

Seeing that, I’m done with bondage. It’s over for me.

I also live in a fire area and get evacuated almost every year for the last 5 years. I change my habits to not do anything risky during fire season and always use a thermostatic timer as my backup/ safety release. It definitely gets my anxiety up almost always now. 

Thankfully I never have lost my home but many of my friends and family have. I really feel for those in LA that lost everything, especially the non rich that have been completely ignored in all of this.

[Obsidian]

   
This is my town... or was my town.

We had wildfires here at the end of last February.  An evacuation order was given for this side of town.  But, I chose to stay and fight, as long as I could.  A buddy decided to evacuate.  He said the traffic was so bad, it took an hour, just to drive the 2 miles to the other side of town. It was another 2 hours to get to Amarillo (which is normally under an hour).  When he and his sister got there, the were no more hotel/motel rooms.  They had to sleep in the car.

Here is the blanket of smoke on my street, around the time that the evacuation order was given:       

Here is the glow from the fire, after dark (also seen from my front porch:       

This is the Wikipedia entry:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Texas_wildfires   I'm in Gray county, and ours was the Grapevine Creek Fire.