This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies of interest to preppers and survivalists that are located in the American Redoubt region. Today, news of wildfires and the partial relief of rains from the remnants of Tropical Storm Hilary.
Region-Wide
Reader H.L. sent us this: The US States Losing & Gaining Population The Fastest. JWR’s Comments: Idaho and Montana were near the top of the list of the “vote with your feet” influx, for good reason. I anticipate that this self-sorting will accelerate in the 2020s and 2030s.
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September 1, 2023 Outlook Period – National Interagency Fire Center.
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Hurricane Hilary will help bring rain back to the Inland Northwest. The article begins:
“With fire season in full swing, the Inland Northwest desperately needs rain more than ever. The remnants of what is to become a historic hurricane is likely to give us some next week.
Hurricane Hilary is a powerful storm in the East Pacific. Around midday Friday Hilary was a Category 4 storm with sustained winds up to 145 mph. Hilary is expected to make landfall somewhere along the Baja Peninsula in Mexico before tracking north into the United States as a tropical storm. Hilary would be the first tropical storm to reach Southern California since Nora in September of 1997.
East Pacific Hurricanes normally track out to sea, but when there’s an opening, these storms will curve to the north. The movement of the heat dome that was over the West Coast into the Great Plains is one such opening.
Hilary is expected to bring once-in-a-generation rainfall to the desert regions of the Southwest. In some places two to three years worth of rain could fall. Extreme, life-threatening flooding is likely in parts of California, Nevada, and Arizona.
As Hilary moves inland it will be torn apart, leaving behind a vast region of tropical moisture that will ride the winds up to the Northern Rocky Mountains. These remnants of Hilary are what could bring the Inland Northwest some much-needed rain.”
Idaho
Weather Alert: record amounts of rain expected with remnants of Hurricane Hilary.
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Bundy, released from jail, can’t move property, large cash sums for two weeks, judge orders.
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Linked over at the Whatfinger.com news aggregation site: Idaho Mom Exposes Graphic Sexual Content in School Libraries.
Montana
‘Significant’ rainfall dampens wildfire activity.
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Montana Judge Rules in Favor of Climate Activists in First-of-its-Kind Trial.
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Montana teen takes his own life after sextortion scam.
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Feds Arrest Wyoming Man For Attacking Police With Flagpole During January 6 Riot.
Central & Eastern Oregon
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DCSO: Bend homicide suspect Caleb Cegers and brother arrested in Tennessee.
Central & Eastern Washington
Video: 180+ houses burned: Homes destroyed in Medical Lake, Washington due to Wildfire
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Gray Fire in Medical Lake reaches over 10,000 acres.
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Oregon Fire burns 8,282 acres near Elk, forces multiple level 3 evacuations.
Wyoming
University of Wyoming Loses Campus Preacher Case.
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Wyoming, Federal Agencies Relocate Another Grizzly.
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Fort Bridger Man Sentence to 10 Years for 2nd-Time Child Pornography Possession.
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