Monthly Business Meeting and Dry Weather Coming

Last night was our monthly business meeting; a somewhat disappointing turnout but we accomplished a lot and were pleased to see John Fuller, one of our trustees present.

In the next few days I'll put up our 1-3-5-year plan for fans of WVFD to look at. This was Fire Chief Phyllis Jackson's idea, and Ed Frey's implementation, and we were very pleased to see that we've already accomplished all but two goals for the first year and have already accomplished one of the three-year goals.

We hadn't expected to get the supertanker until 2007. The combined efforts of Phyllis, Cary, Glenn and several others to land the supertanker grant, and the overwhelming generous response from our friends and neighbors in the Wolfskin Community accomplished this. Congratulations to everyone!

A La Nina event has been declared by NOAA in the Pacific. La Nina is predicted to last 3-6 months, but remember the two-year drought here of the late 1990-2000s was brought by an unexpected series of La Ninas lasting for much longer than expected.

This is part of the El Nino-La Nina cycle. In the Southeast US a La Nina means drier weather as we move into the warmer months. VFDs are going to have to be more diligent, and residents are going to have to be much more careful about fire; lack of rain as the temperatures increase may lead to some dry conditions around here.

We'll keep you updated, and be sure to watch the Georgia Fire Danger link on the right sidebar!

-Wayne

UPDATE: Phyllis emails me that

...RE: Tanker in 3-yr plan. Had we NOT gotten the grant,
this tanker we would have afforded in the plan would
not be a super vacuum tanker. Not even close. (More
like an old milk truck.) These vacuum tankers are so
new, most F.D.s have never seen one operate. We have
a number of skeptics waiting to see it. Tony assures
me not to worry one bit--they will be blown away. (Or
sucked away.)

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We certainly want to hold a "truckwarming event", when the tanker arrives sometime this month!