Left Bigfork around 11:00 AM this morning and drove down the Hwy through Seeley Lake. The smoke was horrible before we left and just got worse. People are still working in Seeley Lake, but they are advising people to not go outside in the evenings when the inversion occurs and the smoke thickens in the valleys. The staging area for the Rice Ridge fire, there in Seeley Lake, the biggest fire in the nation, has tripled. They have semi trucks set up with sleeping areas for the firemen. It is just surreal. We went south, then east and made it to Cardwell, MT, just outside of Whitehall, MT where the actor, Bill Pullman has a ranch. The smoke eased up just a bit for awhile and then thickened again, but it is nowhere close to what it was in Kalispell and Seeley Lake. God said that the nearer to the end of time, there would be all kinds of disasters. We’re seeing hurricane Irma about to make landfall, just a week after the hurricane devastated Houston, and the hundreds of wildfires out west. We will be heading towards Cody, WY tomorrow and hope to make it to Ouray, CO in two more days. Everyone be safe back home and pray for all those firefighters and people who are losing homes and livestock to the fires.
The middle picture is of the Flathead Lake that we took last night in Lakeside. You could not even see to the other side or the mountains – it looked more like an ocean.
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