X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [66.219.56.245] (HELO mail.qnsi.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.1) with ESMTP id 5114534 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:26:24 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.219.56.245; envelope-from=bhughes@qnsi.net Received: from 10.0.0.5 ([10.0.0.5]) by qnsi-mail.qnsi.net ([10.0.0.5]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 01:27:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Mark Steitle -- how close to the fire References: From: "Bobby J. Hughes" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail-19--193382097"; charset="iso-8859-1" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5FA03F3F-1648-431F-BC8A-EC7A55A1F69F@qnsi.net> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 19:25:50 -0500 To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit thread-topic: [FlyRotary] Re: Mark Steitle -- how close to the fire MIME-Version: 1.0 (iPad Mail 8J2) thread-index: AcxsNBnBcyFzA4o3QXuSLI7/HObYqg== --Apple-Mail-19--193382097 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks Kelly. Dennis H also lives in N Austin. Bobby Sent from my iPad On Sep 5, 2011, at 8:23 PM, "Kelly Troyer" wrote: > Mark, Bobby & Bob, > =20 > Pulling for all of you.............Hang in there................ > =20 > Kelly Troyer > "DYKE DELTA JD2" (Eventually) > "13B ROTARY"_ Engine > "RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2 > "MISTRAL"_Backplate/Oil Manifold > "TURBONETICS"_TO4E50 Turbo >=20 > From: Mark Steitle > To: Rotary motors in aircraft > Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 7:16 PM > Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Mark Steitle -- how close to the fire >=20 > Bill, >=20 > Thanks for asking. Bobby Hughes also lives just a few miles from me. And= Bob Darrah lives up by the lake. He was packing things just in case they h= ad to evacuate. They could see the smoke from their balcony. =20 >=20 > So, yes, things are a bit tense, but we're all doing fine. =20 >=20 > A brief summary of this weekend's fires in/around Austin: There is the Ba= strop State Park fire that has burned 476 homes and 25,000 acres. It is 0% c= ontained at this time. This is by far the worst fire burning at this time. = It is very sad, all the devastation and all. It is quite a ways from where= I live and also from where I keep my airplane. Bastrop State Park has lots= of very large tall pine trees. It is next to impossible for the firefighti= ng equipment to get in to where they need to be to fight the fire. They're u= sing helicopters and tankers to drop water on it. The smoke is very thick a= nd can be seen for many miles. >=20 > There's another fire burning in the other direction that has burned 24 ver= y expensive homes. Again, it is nowhere near where I live. It is 25% conta= ined. The news said that it was caused by overloaded power lines. =20 >=20 > However, there is a fire that was reported to be 2 miles wide by 5 miles l= ong that is not far from where I live, and high winds are blowing in the dir= ection of our home. A number of sub-divisions have been evacuated. Fortuna= tely, the firefighters now have it 100% contained. So, I think we dodged an= other one. >=20 > There were two other fires in Pflugerville (N. Austin) yesterday that are n= ow out. Again, not close to where I live. But all the fires have the state= 's resources stretched paper thin. =20 >=20 > The anxious part is that fires keep popping up all over central Texas. Hu= midity is 4%, and there has been no rain in months. So, everything is very v= ery dry. The whole area is a tenderbox. =20 >=20 > The news anchors are asking, "If you had ten minutes to grab whatever you c= ould and leave your home, what would you take?" That is a sobering thought.= Fortunately, we are OK.=20 >=20 > Again, thanks for asking. =20 >=20 > Thanks, > Mark >=20 > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Bill Schertz wrote:= > mark,. > Is your home/plane safe from the wild fires going on down there? > =20 > Bill Schertz > KIS Cruiser #4045 > N343BS > Phase one testing Completed >=20 >=20 >=20 --Apple-Mail-19--193382097 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Thanks Kelly. Dennis H also lives in N Austin. Bobby

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 5, 2011, at 8:23 PM, "Kelly Troyer" <keltro@att.net> wrote:

Mark, Bobby & Bob,
 
        Pulling for all of you.............Hang in there................
 
Kelly Troyer
"DYKE DELTA JD2" (Eventually)
"13B ROTARY"_ Engine
"RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2
"MISTRAL"_Backplate/Oil Manifold
"TURBONETICS"_TO4E50 Turbo

From: Mark Steitle <msteitle@gmail.com>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 7:16 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Mark Steitle -- how close to the fire

Bill,

Thanks for asking.  Bobby Hughes also lives just a few miles from me.  And Bob Darrah lives up by the lake.  He was packing things just in case they had to evacuate.  They could see the smoke from their balcony.  

So, yes, things are a bit tense, but we're all doing fine.  

A brief summary of this weekend's fires in/around Austin:  There is the Bastrop State Park fire that has burned 476 homes and 25,000 acres.  It is 0% contained at this time.  This is by far the worst fire burning at this time.  It is very sad, all the devastation and all.  It is quite a ways from where I live and also from where I keep my airplane.  Bastrop State Park has lots of very large tall pine trees.  It is next to impossible for the firefighting equipment to get in to where they need to be to fight the fire.  They're using helicopters and tankers to drop water on it.  The smoke is very thick and can be seen for many miles.

There's another fire burning in the other direction that has burned 24 very expensive homes.  Again, it is nowhere near where I live.  It is 25% contained.  The news said that it was caused by overloaded power lines.  

However, there is a fire that was reported to be 2 miles wide by 5 miles long that is not far from where I live, and high winds are blowing in the direction of our home.  A number of sub-divisions have been evacuated.  Fortunately, the firefighters now have it 100% contained.  So, I think we dodged another one.

There were two other fires in Pflugerville (N. Austin) yesterday that are now out.  Again, not close to where I live.  But all the fires have the state's resources stretched paper thin.  

The anxious part is that fires keep popping up all over central Texas.  Humidity is 4%, and there has been no rain in months.  So, everything is very very dry.  The whole area is a tenderbox.  

The news anchors are asking, "If you had ten minutes to grab whatever you could and leave your home, what would you take?"  That is a sobering thought.  Fortunately, we are OK. 

Again, thanks for asking.  

Thanks,
Mark

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Bill Schertz <wschertz@comcast.net> wrote:
mark,.
Is your home/plane safe from the wild fires going on down there?
 
Bill Schertz
KIS Cruiser #4045
N343BS
Phase one testing Completed



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