The way it is strange is the fire is burning around MT. Shasta at tree line traveling from Weed eastward around the mountain. A Police car is usually stationed up Everitt Memorial Highway so people cannot travel up it onto the mountain. Mostly they just don't want people dying in a fire or from smoke inhalation at altitude. They don't want to find bodies on the mountain later this summer or fall of people who didn't make it for one reason or another. It isn't that you likely couldn't climb the mountain if you wanted to, it's that it would be a much longer climb unless you drove up a logging road on another part of the mountain like on the McCloud Side up from Pilgrim's Creek Rd or something. For example, Hotlum Glacier route might work (if it doesn't melt in this heat and come roaring down the mountain in all this heat.
That's the other thing. There is almost no snow (at least looking up from the city of Mt. Shasta. And also since the fire is wrapping around the mountain from Weed East around the mountain it's possible that your logging road and escape off the mountain could catch fire from wind and flying embers too and you would be stranded on the mountain or have to walk down all the way into the city of Mt. Shasta down another route after your car or truck or motorcycle burned up in the fire and then you would have to take a bus or train home because your vehicle was burned up.
The lack of snow on Mt. Shasta also makes it extremely dangerous regarding rockfall and injuries of rocks coming down on you at 60 to 80 miles per hour especially above around 10,000 feet elevation where it is the steepest ascent.
The way in which it has been wonderful is that we have spent time having dinner outside with old friends and swam in local lakes when it gets too hot to do anything else outside and so far none of our friends houses or lands have burned up (at least so far). So, everyone is very grateful that they still have their houses and lands intact. One of my friends has owned his land and built his own house and organic gardens since 1976.
The other interesting thing is we were walking up from a local lake after swimming in 95 to 100 degree temperatures when a tree fell down and spooked someone walking towards us on the trail up to the main road where we were parked. No one was injured but how many times have you seen a tree fall in the forest?
I don't think I've ever seen a tree fall on it's own in a forest.
And then there's the philosophical question you get in a Freshman Philosophy Class in College:
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one sees it, did it really happen?"
The philosophical answer is "NO. It didn't happen because no one saw it happen."
This likely is the main problem I have with scientists who think this way too.
Because if you see evidence of something that happened and you don't recognize that it happened what kind of a fool are you?
For me, this is especially true around everything regarding UFOS.
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