We're ok!
June 02, 2011 by Seraph in Cortez
It's been an eventful 24 hours here. Robbie and I were coming back from Taos yesterday (Isa had stayed at home playing with a friend who lives here too), and about 5 miles from Sipapu we saw smoke, and then large flames up on the ridge. By the time we got to the highway below the ridge, the fire had jumped the highway. We made it through just before they closed the road.
When we got home, there was no power, water, or sewer (we have our own water treatment plant at Sipapu, but the pumps are powered by electricity). It sounds like a power line went down and sparked the blaze.
It was a little touch and go if we would need to evacuate, but thankfully the wind pushed the blaze west - away from us. The fire crews have been working nonstop, and the planes were out all morning dropping fire retardent. So far they contained the fire at the original location (above the Buddhist monastary for those familiar with the area), and are still working on the other side (up the highway towards Taos). It sounds like 2000+ acres have burned so far.
The crew here picked up 2 large generators from Los Alamos, so we now have power at the main lodge, and the water and sewer are working. It's been a great excuss to BBQ everything in the freezer, and eat a lot of ice cream!
We'll keep you posted as we get better connection to the internet! Love to all!!
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