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vino de vano Samba Member
Joined: September 10, 2016 Posts: 359 Location: columbia gorge
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2020 4:02 pm Post subject: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Crazy day in the gorge. Way smoky.
Take care all. _________________ what a long strange trip it's been |
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Xevin Samba Member
Joined: January 08, 2014 Posts: 7635
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2020 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Same Gorge different day.
_________________ Keep on Busin'
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Wildthings Samba Member
Joined: March 13, 2005 Posts: 50353
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2020 4:58 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Going a bit bonkers from hanging out inside, not even willing to go down stairs as the air upstairs is better than the air downstairs. |
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11BC2 Samba Member
Joined: August 27, 2017 Posts: 495 Location: Cool, California
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Whereabouts in The Gorge?
My old Army buddy lives in White Salmon. |
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vino de vano Samba Member
Joined: September 10, 2016 Posts: 359 Location: columbia gorge
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2020 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Smoke is just passing through. I did hear of a fire somewhere around Carson Washington. Scary days these days. _________________ what a long strange trip it's been |
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Zeitgeist 13 Samba Member
Joined: March 05, 2009 Posts: 12115 Location: Port Manteau
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:27 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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We're getting double barrels of Oregon's smoky conflagration up here. I'm sure glad my A/C works, so I don't need to drive around with my windows open. Even so, I've been hacking like I was a two pack a day trucker. _________________ Casey--
'89 Bluestar ALH w/12mm Waldo pump, PP764 and GT2052
'01 Weekender --> full camper
y u rune klassik? |
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Wildthings Samba Member
Joined: March 13, 2005 Posts: 50353
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:43 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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11BC2 wrote: |
Whereabouts in The Gorge?
My old Army buddy lives in White Salmon. |
If you are talking to me, outside of Hood River, up the valley a bit. |
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shadetreemech Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2005 Posts: 777 Location: Claremont, CA
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 6:46 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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I'm in between the El Dorado (started by a gender reveal firework) and the Bobcat wildfires. Both are far enough away not to pose an immediate threat to the house. The smoke has been brutal. Ash piles up on the Vans. 2020 has turned into an actual dumpster fire.
Dan _________________ '84 GL 1.9
'01 Volvo V70 T5
'88 Westy - "MZDRTHY" |
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Xevin Samba Member
Joined: January 08, 2014 Posts: 7635
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 8:24 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Portland has had the worst air quality in the world the other day.
My commute on a normal summer day (In my bug)
And now
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67rustavenger wrote: |
GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo! |
Clatter wrote: |
Damn that Xevin... |
skills@eurocarsplus wrote: |
I respect Xevin and he's a turd |
SGKent wrote: |
My God! Xevin and I 100% agree |
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AZ Landshaper Samba Member
Joined: February 08, 2009 Posts: 1698 Location: The Old Pueblo
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 8:30 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Supposedly this nice cloudy weather we are having in southern Arizona is due to the fires. Incredible effects all up and down the western USA. 2020 is the year of the N-95 mask. _________________ Support Small Business.
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85 Weekender w/ EJ22
Previously
64, 71, 72, 73, 76, 81, 84, 85 & 87 Campmobiles and Westfalias
and a 67 bug. |
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jimf909 Samba Member
Joined: April 03, 2014 Posts: 7479 Location: WA/ID
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 8:37 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Seattle made it mostly smoke-free through August for the second year in a row. Today is a mess though. 2018 and 2017 below...
Washington Pass, Hwy 20 in WA, 8/2018 at 8:30 am. The sun is the orange dot in the sky at about 2:00...
Olympic Peninsula, August, 2017...
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Past: 1985 Westy Camper - 1.9 wbx, 2wd, manual trans, Merian Brown, (sold after 17 years to Northwesty who converted it to a Syncro). |
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dougnlina Samba Member
Joined: January 19, 2016 Posts: 246 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 10:42 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Along Trinity River, sept 10. _________________ "Olive" a '60 Ragtop Beetle
"Grover" a '87 Syncro Poptop 1.8T |
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erste Samba Member
Joined: March 29, 2013 Posts: 1110 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:53 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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This is from last Sunday on some BLM land near Mammoth. The wind stopped blowing during the night and we woke up smothered in smoke. Air quality was 490. We packed up and drove North, more fires past Mono Lake and for the majority of the drive. It finally cleared up enough near Tahoe where we spent the next night.
That drive made me want tencent’s air recirc kit bad. Made more sense than it ever has before.
stay safe out there! |
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spillane Samba Member
Joined: August 12, 2020 Posts: 36 Location: Berkeley, CA
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:07 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Berkeley 09/08/20
_________________ 1987 Vanagon GL - 2.3L WBX |
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ALIKA T3 Samba Member
Joined: July 30, 2009 Posts: 6361 Location: Honolulu,Hawaii and France
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IdahoDoug Samba Member
Joined: June 12, 2010 Posts: 10252 Location: N. Idaho
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Wow those are amazing shots of the air out West. For those of you that are suffering, see my comments on Wildthing's thread about HVAC on Vanagons. A powerful filter will get the job done and you can carry it into the house after your clean commute to keep your living/sleeping clean. If I were not sitting here in a smoke free house looking at the smoke outside, I would not have believed this possible to achieve. My only house modfication was to put a plastic film over the house's air return to prevent most of the air exchange. Then plugged in the room filters. We don't have A/C - only a furnace. So we have no need for the house system to be on at this time of the year. If you live where you need a/c on, perhaps there's a recirc air return door on your system you can activate after getting one of these filters? Dunno. _________________ 1987 2WD Wolfsburg Vanagon Weekender "Mango", two fully locked 80 Series LandCruisers. 2017 Subaru Outback boxer. 1990 Audi 90 Quattro 20V with rear locking differential, 1990 burgundy parts Vanagon. 1984 Porsche 944, 1988 Toyota Supra 5 speed targa, 2002 BMW 325iX, 1982 Toyota Sunrader |
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jimf909 Samba Member
Joined: April 03, 2014 Posts: 7479 Location: WA/ID
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 11:59 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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375 miles and 7 hours driving across WA state today.
erste wrote: |
That drive made me want tencent’s air recirc kit bad. Made more sense than it ever has before.
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tencent's air control did a remarkable job. Granted, I would've used duct tape on the intake as I have for a few years, but just being able to close the incoming air was quite nice.
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Past: 1985 Westy Camper - 1.9 wbx, 2wd, manual trans, Merian Brown, (sold after 17 years to Northwesty who converted it to a Syncro). |
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rmcd Samba Member
Joined: October 29, 2010 Posts: 1349 Location: PNW - its a dry rain.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 2:02 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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Rural Clackamas county. On Tuesday we had two minor fires within two miles, one within six miles and then the big ass fire near Estacada about eight miles away. We started our evacuation on Tuesday night and went level three forced evacuation on Thursday.
Tuesday at noon.
Tuesday at 5pm
Wednesday at 430pm
Thursday at 11am.
_________________ VW LT40 build. Like a Vanagon but 30% larger in every direction and 40% slower even in metric.
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Outlaw70 Samba Member
Joined: February 20, 2013 Posts: 48 Location: Medford Oregon
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 3:53 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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I live in Medford Oregon and the smoke is awful! quite a bit higher than Portland. These fires have totally destroyed two near by towns Talent and Phoenix. _________________ 85 Vanagon |
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Wildthings Samba Member
Joined: March 13, 2005 Posts: 50353
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:22 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the smoke |
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We had fires burning nearby for a month, the closest having started 2 1/2 miles from the house and never got more than a whiff of smoke. Now the closest fire is probably 60 miles away and the air burns my skin if I go out of the house for more than a few minutes. A guy on a local blog made a post that his CO alarm was going off last night, it is supposed to alert at something like 25ppm, so people might want to be wary of their basements where the CO would tend to settle and concentrate. IIRC, a thousand PPM for an hour is deadly, but its been decades since I needed to know that so may well be way off. |
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