The Lakeside site is only a few miles west of a line directly north of the fire. IMO, it would be a crapshoot. A direct south breeze would put an imager out of business. I think the last thought of the good people of Herculaneum and Pompeii was "Mama mia! Lookit Vesuvius! Don't THAT make your ears ring!" Then the boulder rain came, then the ash. When Emigration Canyon burned, some 25, 26 years ago, I was living in Sugar House. For days, the sky was blood red and ash fell like snow. There were millions of black "snowflakes" mixed in with the grey, and when examined closely turned out to be charred aspen and oak leaves. On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
Actually Joe, looking to the west past the smoke cloud it looks clear. If Lakeside is far enough west you could have a fine view of everywhere but east.
Speaking of the smoke cloud, as I walked out of a local store here in Stansbury a few minutes ago I saw the normally black parking lot was grey. I thought "What the heck?". It took a moment to figure out the grey was from the falling ash.
But thinking back on that what-the-heck moment, I can't help but wonder if that was the last thought the citizens of Herculaneum and Pompeii had as they walked outside to see why it was getting dark.