The Winds heading north through Sacramento on 5 on Wednesday

Were pretty intense. My wife was driving from in between Stockton and Sacramento and the bridges over the area that floods a lot in storms just after going north through Sacramento were difficult for most rigs because of the elevation hitting the bridges and the angles of the winds. The big Rigs (Semis) tended to stay as far right as they could so they wouldn't blow over so they could come far left in the lanes to avoid turning over in the gusts. Smaller cars, especially tended to drive much slower and vans were sort of in trouble in various ways especially the tallest ones with the most side windage. I told my wife to not pass in a really high gust any of these (in danger vehicles) if she could manage it so they didn't come over on our truck. My 4 wheel drive Tundra is usually pretty good in winds because it has enough weight to stay on the road good plus it's ride is very good sort of like a large Cadillac or Lexus too plus it gets around 20 mpg in mileage (but likely not in headwinds mostly from slightly to the right heading north on 5 on Wednesday. By the time we reached Red Bluff reddish smoke was going from right to left from the Sierras all the way to the coastal range. I was wondering why the smoke was red unless it was from borade bombers bombing the fire more than 25 miles away in the Sierras. Borade is the red stuff you see in videos of small and large planes dropping on fires to put them out. So, the red smoke on Wednesday was from east to west about 50 miles long and Interstate 5 intersected it. It was high enough up so we didn't have to smell it though and it didn't occlude visibility driving like I have seen before in driving by fires alongside of Interstate 5 in various places through the years.