“…… From the picture, we can see a firespout hundreds of feet tall soaring into the sky. The local fire department said that due to the dry climate and strong winds, it was very difficult to extinguish the fire. It is understood that in the past three hours, the fire has burned more than four thousand acres of forest and more than thirty families have been evacuated. If the wildfires are not extinguished soon, more than 300 families in six communities will have to be evacuated because of the threat of fires. ”

Looking at the fire tornado on TV, Jessica exclaimed, "Oh my God. It was horrible, it almost burned the helicopter. ”

Link chimed in, "yes, it almost became a tragedy. ”

In fact, he didn't feel much of it, in fact, the forest fires in the west were expected. In fact, the western states had wildfire warnings two months ago.

And this wildfire is fundamentally man-made. And the funniest thing is that the purpose of those people to light the wildfires in the forest park is precisely to avoid them.

When the drought hits, the United States has a way to avoid forest fires. That is, in those remote and unpopulated areas, the fire department will organize some volunteers to collect dry wood from the mountains and set it on fire. The aim is to eliminate the hidden danger of the fire through this controllable wildfire.

But they didn't expect the gusts of wind that day to be a little stronger than the weather forecast.

Southern Oregon is an area rich in wind resources. A gust of wind spread the controlled wildfire, and those who remained there did not notice that the fire was beyond their intended range. By the time they found out, they couldn't put it out by hand.

Over the past few months, the dead grass in the mountains has easily ignited. In addition, the wind direction is changeable, and when the firefighting helicopter arrives. The wildfires have completely spread and look. The wind fuels the fire, and because of the variable and strong winds of the wildfires, the fire spreads very quickly.

"It looks like this fire is going to burn for a long time. If the wind does not abate, the fire can even reach the coast. ”

Link laughed and said, "Didn't the news say that? It was a lumber yard belonging to the Eastern Pacific Company." The forest burned out, but they replanted the trees. ”

"That company has a very bad reputation. They had cut down a large area of trees, but they had not replanted new trees as required. That place has been deserted for almost a decade. ”

Jessica shook her head and continued, "They bought the forest before they even established a state in Oregon. Originally, there was a hunting area, mainly for fur. Later it was granted forest cutting rights. According to the latest Oregon regulations, trees should be replanted after deforestation. But they took advantage of a loophole in the law. ”

"That land is privately owned. Before that law was enacted, they had cut down vast areas of forest, but they didn't plant them. So there are still a lot of land there that is wasteland. A large number of small trees with no material value on the ground are placed randomly on the wasteland. ”

Link was surprised and asked, "How do you know so much?"

Jessica laughs, "I was a member of the school's environmental protection association in college. Their Oregon forests are just north of California, and all the way to a small mountain forest in the northwest corner of California, so the association focused on collecting information about them. ”

Link suddenly realized that it was because of that.

She continued: "This year's drought seems to be particularly severe, and western Oregon is forested, so there should be a lot of precipitation. But this year has also been very dry. The impact of climate change is becoming more and more apparent. ”

Link smiled and said, "I'll leave those things to the politicians to solve." ”

"I just want to know how many forests this fire will burn down. ”

"Maybe they'll cut a fire ditch in time. ”

Forest fires are difficult not to extinguish, and many times they can only wait for them to burn everything they can burn and then extinguish themselves. However, it is also a relatively good means of forest fire extinguishing to clear some trees in the forest and form a separation zone.

As he spoke, he picked up the remote control and changed to a different station to watch a TV series.

Late at night, it's always easy for something to happen to young men and women before they go to bed in the same bed. It's just that those things are inconvenient to explain to outsiders. Link woke up in good spirits. However, Jessica seems to have consumed too much energy in the inconvenient things to explain, and is still asleep.

When he got up, he pulled the quilt upwards to cover the woman's chest, which had a few red marks in her polish. The temperature of this air conditioner is relatively low.

There are two cooks in the kitchen, and there is no need for him to cook the breakfast himself. He sat on the couch and turned on the TV, intending to watch the news.

As soon as he turned on the TV, he tuned into the TV station that broadcast the news. As a result, the news I saw was about the wildfires in southern Oregon.

“…… The fire crossed the barrier and is still not under control. Since there is no water source nearby, it takes more than 10 minutes for the fire plane to fetch water from the nearest water source, and it is difficult to control the fire. So far, more than 20,000 acres of forest fires have been burned, and the fires are advancing southward and westward. The fire has killed two firefighters, dozens of people are sick from inhaling the smoke, and more than a hundred homes have been evacuated to safety because of the fire. ”

After reading the news, Link could only shake his head. Quarantine didn't work? That's a tragedy. And he saw the news broadcast with two helicopters sprinkling water in the sky.

But helicopters can lift a ton to two tons of water at most. That little bit of water is a drop in the bucket for such a forest fire.

He remembered that some other large countries would send large fixed-wing seaplanes to extinguish forest fires. Such an aircraft can carry several tons or even a dozen tons of water at a time. Moreover, the flight speed is fast, the time required to draw water back and forth is much shorter than that of helicopters, and the firefighting efficiency is much higher than that of those helicopters.

But tragically, the United States does not seem to have such aircraft.

After Jessica went to work, Link left Hannah in the care of Ms. Hammer, and he went to his dedicated study. He needs to continue to think about his future plans. For this, he needed more inspiration. But he found that his horizons were too narrow.

He felt he needed to learn more. So, he went and downloaded some of the university's teaching videos. Mainly economics.

It was hard for him to understand the formulas of those majors, so he had to teach himself some math.

There is a lot of jargon used in the teaching video, and he can't understand it. However, after each lesson, the instructor will list some recommended books or published articles.

He would always find as many books as he could and buy them.

He took the initiative to accept re-education, not to do research, but to be able to understand and understand the internal similarities in the teaching video. So he also reads books, but he doesn't study economics for the sake of it. The only purpose of reading books and listening to lectures is to broaden his knowledge and to be more thoughtful about economic factors when considering his plans.

He now knows that the more thorough the risk analysis of any project wants to do, the more accurate the final analysis will be.

In fact, even he didn't expect that he would pick up his books again a few years after leaving school.

Now he knew that the more he knew, the more his vision broadened. So during this time, as long as he is fine, he will have convulsions for at least two hours a day to read. I follow various news every day.

There are all kinds of information about the world hidden in the news, it is only up to you to see if you are aware of it and how you interpret it.

Jessica moved over the first weekend, and she decided to take a break.

So Link was going to take Hannah to Fox in a carriage today to show off.

Hannah's careful thoughts, he probably understood. It was there that she met children. If you have something good, you will want to let others know about it. That's why the little girl wanted to take the carriage to Fox several times, so that the other children would envy her.

Link has read a lot of parenting scriptures and knows that two-year-olds have begun to remember. It is important for parents to teach by example. Now that Jessica is free, if he doesn't drive her out in a carriage, she might think he's broken his word.

He got up early and got the carriage ready with the help of a horse trainer.

Knowing that she could take a carriage to Fox today, Hannah happily jumped on the spot: "Daddy, Daddy, can I ask Stephen to ride in the carriage?"

"Absolutely!"

After breakfast, the three of them drove out in the carriage. But it would take at least half an hour for them to actually leave the farm.

They drove their wagons down State Highway 101 to Fox. It's an asphalt road, and the carriage doesn't feel bumpy at all.

The weather was fine today, too, and Hannah's carriage was restless, running from one side of the carriage to the other side to see the birds flying out of the woods or grass.

"Daddy, look, a duck has flown away!"

Link saw a mallard duck split from the creek. He smiled and said, "That's the mother duck, and she's just finished breakfast and is going back to hatch the ducklings." ”

There are some small rivers or waterholes near this road, and it is normal for wild ducks to nest or feed near the water.

In fact, because there are no natural predators at Ozette Farm, there are many more migratory birds wintering here in the past two years. And the number of resident birds has also increased a lot. Until now, he has welcomed the birds. Because they eat a lot of bugs.

After passing the section by the river, there are no interesting birds to be seen. Hannah quieted down. But she stood on the cushion and leaned against the edge of the carriage. After looking back for a few minutes, he was surprised and said, "Daddy, Ari's car is so slow." Is it broken?"

Link laughed and said, "Of course not. Their car was driving slowly and was there to protect us from behind. ”

"Will the big bad wolf attack us?" because she had heard the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and in Hannah's heart, the big bad wolf was the most terrible beast.

Link nodded and said, "Yes." So they followed us behind. Because when the big bad wolf sees a lot of people, he will be scared away!"

It took nearly an hour for the two horses to pull the carriage to downtown Fox. It's the weekend and there are some older kids who are also playing here, skateboarding and playing baseball. When the carriage came to the small park, it immediately attracted the attention of the children playing in the park.

Even a twelve-year-old child, with the beautiful carriage and the long flowing mane of the head and neck of the Gipsy Fanirma, and the fluffy mane of the limbs, no one could resist this beautiful animal. It can be said that the pure white Jepsi Nirma is a mythical unicorn if he grows a golden horn on his head.