{"id":25705,"date":"2023-05-18T16:51:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T23:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=25705"},"modified":"2023-05-18T17:39:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T00:39:38","slug":"may-18-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/05\/18\/may-18-3\/","title":{"rendered":"May 18 Burning Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friedrich Nietzsche<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far still alive. The fire was headed my way. Just ten kilometers away, the fire can travel that in less than two hours of burning. The big panic, they chose the road I live on as the marker for the fire. Last time the fire was east of me moving west on my road. Now a different fire was moving east towards me. That one is a mega fire. It jumped a river that is near a half mile wide. It is burning in two counties.<\/p>\n<p>The wind has shifted they say and now the wind is blowing back at the fire. Sunday and Monday brings rain. We just need to make it till then.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25706\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174023-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25706\" data-attachment-id=\"25706\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/05\/18\/may-18-3\/20230518_174023\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174023-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-A515F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1684431623&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;1.74&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00029197080292&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20230518_174023\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174023-300x135.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174023-1024x461.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-25706 size-full\" style=\"border: 6px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174023-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174023-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174023-300x135.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174023-1024x461.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174023-768x346.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174023-1536x691.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174023-2048x922.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facing East towards the fire<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/20230518_174019-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" 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