Hazy days

I'm sorry it has taken so long to post. Things were kind of busy over the weekend and I played catch up on Monday. The big news around here is a fire that started on Tuesday morning. It started in Emerald Hills and grew from 50 acres the first few hours to 1,100 by that night and is now at around 5,000 acres. Many homes are in harms way but praise God the firefighters have saved all but 2 so far. The fire is still uncontained and winds overnight and this morning have made things pretty harsh. They evacuated all of Emerald Hills Tuesday and that mandatory evacuation is still in effect. They also temporarily evacuated an area close to Hwy 87. They have brought in a Type 2 incident command team and FEMA will kick in I guess. So that should help. Although our firefighters have done
an awesome job so far!!!
If you are interested in seeing what is going on go to montanasnewsstation.com or kulr.com for more information. There are pictures and video clips. Anyway that is what has kept me from blogging. Oh yeah not to mention that because of the fire and where it is we lost power from Tuesday afternoon until last night when it finally came on about 9:30 or so. Kind of hard to use the old computer when there isn't any power!! I'm posting a few pictures for you all to see.

The first, third and last pictures are taken as we sat in the church parking lot. The houses you see are in the new subdivision that is being built where the big field across the road from the church use to be. The fire actually topped the ridge and came part way down before they got that part out. It is still smoldering today.
The second picture is looking at the backside of the fire from I-90 between Billings and the Pryor exit. We went back out yesterday because they had closed that portion of interstate for awhile on

Tuesday. I didn't take pictures but the fire actually crossed the interstate in places and there were a lot of fence posts, trees and other areas that were still smoldering. It was pretty weird after just being there the day before!
It is pretty bad and I just ask that everyone would pray that there will be no loss of life and that houses can be spared. Thanks everyone!! Hopefully I can blog more later but for now thats all. Over and Out!!