Evacuating the 2020 Oregon Wildfires
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- This video is a cobbled-together account of what happened during the 2020 Oregon Wildfires.
First, my family is safe and I'm forever grateful. My dad and stepmom suffered some fire damage on their land, losing some of their outbuildings and vehicles, but firefighters were able to save their home and the majority of their property.
My mom was able to return the animals to her farm when the rain came this weekend, and they came and got the two goat doelings and the pullets we had been watching for them too.
Everyone is decompressing and slowly getting back to normal. Happy to breathe fresh air, happy for rain. Thanks for watching.
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I can't believe how emotional I got watching this vlog. I watch your podcasts all the time but I'm really not one to comment. The thought of you and your husband raising your children on a farm just warms my heart and your girls are beyond beautiful. The help you gave and the help you got is what is world needs more of. Bless you and your family and I pray all is safe
Thanks Laurie. I get emotional every time too, especially the video my dad and stepmom sent when they were evacuating their town. Making this video has helped with processing everything that happened. I’m just so glad everyone came through it safely.
When you think about the choise that you made in leaving town and going to the farm... you had no idea that you would become the place of refuge for the family... So glad that you are all safe and that your families had homes to go back to. Hoping your Fall is less eventful.
Oh yeah, we were so grateful to have pushed so hard on our summer projects so we had a place to keep the animals for awhile. My family has done so much to help us here that it was the least we could do. They all coexisted in our little paddock pretty well, too. 😄 Definiteky hoping for a nice, boring fall. We’ll see, I guess.
What a wild ride that was. I look back on it now, and still doesn’t seem real. PTSD for awhile, I think, but so grateful our homes all survived. Many others weren’t as fortunate. Thank you for taking us in when we had nowhere else to go. We love you guys! ~~MeeMaw.
We love you guys too. 🤍 So much.
The joys and perils of living in rural communities! Happy you and the animals are safe! We here in CA are still praying for rain! Crazy times on sweet Mother Earth! Take care and never let your guard down!! Blessings!!
Whew, everyone get some rest please...I'm glad everyone is safe & sound. It's so nice to see how loved everyone's animals are.
It’s been about two weeks since this started dying down for us and I still feel like we are all decompressing from it. It’s amazing how much something like this can take out of you.
Even in a potential disaster, your video's are beautiful to watch.
Thank you 🤍
And then the rains came........... Got chills watching this since we've been there too. Evacuated several times over a few years. Just got to make it through October once again. We're in rural San Diego county, Ca. Loved the new music too. Touching video. Well done.
My heart goes out to those in California and other recurrent wildfire places. It’s such a hard thing to have to leave your home behind.
So glad you and your family (and animals!) are safe. It's a big relief when you have a home to come back to.
For sure 🤍
So emotional. I live in Washington state and I was worried about all the people over there. We had some fires all around us, but nothing like Oregon. So very thankful you were/are safe. I heard that the city of Talent burned down. As far south as Medford had fires. So thankful for your safety.
Yeah, the town next to my dad and stepmom is all but gone, and it happened fast. I’m just so glad they were safe because a lot of people were sleeping and didn’t know what hit them. :(
So struck by this video, with the evacuation footage, too. Seems to show that these hard times knit us all together when we act right, work together and share safely as we’re able 🧶 and good fortune that the rains came✨
Oh, my goodness. I am so glad you and your family and home are all safe. God bless.
I’m so glad everyone is ok! I’m up in Astoria and the smoke here was pretty bad but I can’t even imagine how bad it was for everyone right in the thick of it. ❤️
What a harrowing time for you. I’m so glad you’re back home safe and sound.
Wow, what a September. I am in Southern California, and we were under evacuation orders twice this summer, but neither time had to actually leave our home even though the fires got within a mile or two of our home (thank you firefighters and friendly winds!). I used to have a few sheep but don't now, it would have been a challenge to move them as we don't have a livestock trailer. I guess we would have shoved them into the back of the CRV two at a time if desperate. I also thought of just walking them somewhere else along the road. Guess next time I have sheep I will have to have a better emergency plan for them. Thank goodness for people's willingness to open their farms (including you!) - truly a saving grace in such situations. I am glad you and yours have come out relatively unscathed. Thanks for sharing your story!
Ah, wow. Yeah, it’s such a bummer to have to leave your home. I’m glad you were able to stay and everything worked out this year. We’ve never had fires like this in these areas of Oregon (though we’ve had wildfires here over the past 5-6 years in less populated areas), and unfortunately I don’t think this will be the last of it, so we’re trying to think of ways to prepare in case this ever happens again in the future. So, so grateful to those who took our animals in.
So glad that all came out of the storm, and all people and animals were able to get along x
I'm glad you are safe and sound! This video was truly cinematic; great storytelling, beautifully filmed and scored. ❤
So glad you and your families are safe. That must have been so stressful. The smoke made it all the a way to Maine. I started watching you for the knitting but love your homestead vlogs. Hope you all get some much deserved peace and quiet soon.
I am so thankful you and your family are safe. What a hard thing to go through.
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I am send your all lots of love and hoop 💖
Big hughs from Belgium pray for you 💝
Great family and community. 😊 This teaching you not take life for granted, mother nature the great leveler 🙂 love and blessing to you all.
I am late in watching this podcast. Firstly, I am so happy that you and your family and all the animals are safe. The work you have done to your new home and farm is mind blowing.....incredible. So lovely to see how your children are adapting so well to the animals.....absolutely priceless.
All the best to you and your family from Sweden.
Gosh all that must’ve been so scary, especially with all the extended family of animals..... My gosh. Good on you! 🌿
I'm so glad you're safe. We were at a level 2 almost a 3. Other than that we were ok.
I am so glad that you and your home are safe. I was holding my breath the whole video. I pray for your protection and blessings.
Those fires are so frightening. So glad you're all safe and well 🙏 ❤ I loved seeing big girl looking after her goats 🐐 ❤ and tiny girl running around the barn x
This was so scary to watch...my heart goes out to you all and I’m so glad you and your family and animals are safe. I think it’s the animals that get me in these stories...I’m still haunted by the sight of a horse tied up in a Wal-Mart parking lot while his owner tried to find someone with room in their trailer. It was a happy ending but so many others weren’t. Take care of yourselves ✨
I'm happy that you all are safe. Lots of love, XX
So very happy and relieved for your family.
Sorry hit wrong button ! To add we live on an increasingly volatile planet these days - here’s hoping that we can make changes to remedy that. So glad that you and yours escaped relatively unscathed but I can understand how traumatic this must have been for you.
Yeah, definitely, thank you. 🤍 Oregon didn’t used to light up like this, and then suddenly over the past 5-6 years, we’re having wildfires every summer. It’s never come this far in though. This was pretty crazy.
The changes to the homestead look great. I loved when you snapped your fingers and it was all done, HaHaHa. I’m glad your family was safe during those trying times. Family is what is important. The sounds of the goats is adorable. The fire footage is scary and sad. Thank you for sharing this with us. I hope your knitting will bring you some peace and relaxation during these challenging times.
Scary!! Sorry you all went through that. Glad you are all safe. So gracious of the Texas family to help with all the animals. Best wishes.
Dallas, Oregon - we are so grateful to them. 🤍
Duh me! That would have been a very far drive to Texas, haha
So relieved to hear that your family, your animals, and homes were all safe. I can't imagine what that must have been like.
Thanks for sharing your experience. It's brought home to me the reality of what we see on the news. So glad you're all safe.
I'm happy to hear everyone is safe! It was horribly smokey here I southern Washington also but we didn't have to evaluate at all.
Glad to hear things worked out for you. Pray things get better in the future. Thank you for sharing.
Great to see you are all safe and sound
Wow Lindsey 😱 what an emotional vlog. I’m glad you and all your family are safe.
So happy you are all ok and your extended family and all the animals
So very glad you & yours are all safe. 💕
Thank God you’re all safe. I can’t imagine how scary it was to go through it but it’s good to know when you needed help it was there. The world is crazy right now, if it’s not one thing it’s another. At least you finally got lots of rain, other areas didn’t and are still burning. The sad thing is someone set some of those fires, that’s unforgivable. We have woods on all sides of our property and there are a bunch of dead trees that have fallen or broken in half all along the back , the result of a beetle that arrived from China on a ship about ten years ago. They kill the firs from the inside out by burrowing under the bark so you don’t even know for a long time they are there. Worrying, because I can’t do anything about it, it’s my daughters family that own the property and they are city kids, don’t realize the danger. I’ve said , but as usual I’m just an alarmist old worry wart.Take care be safe and well, I’ll keep you in my prayers.🙋🏼
Yikes, yeah... it’s better to be safe than sorry when it comes to these things. I think the thing that saved my dad and stepmom’s place (aside from the awesome firefighters) was the fact that their horses had been keeping the brush down. It seemed to slow things down enough that firefighters stood a chance of saving the place. And yeah, I really can’t understand the arsonists. It made me so angry to learn there were people out there making this worse on purpose. Ugh.
this was tragic my whole town had to evacuate from riverside fire and i still have nightmares about it. it came within a half mile to town. hope your safe we are ok my folk's house survived with some smoke damage others not so lucky.
So shocking to see this , I live in Cornwall in the UK and we do not get such extreme weather. We live on an icre
It’s pretty rare for this part of Oregon too, but these fires were just everywhere. My dad and stepmom are an hour and a half away, my mom’s farm a half hour in the other direction... it was unlike anything we’ve seen.
WOW you guys have done a tremendous amount of work! It’s looking so good! What a horrible experience....I feel for anyone going through such a heart wrenching time. Stay safe and well. Many Blessings