Amid a slowed line of traffic came the WOW TBC Classic Gold unmistakable sound of one tree after another snapping and falling.
"Trees were falling left and right," Ewing said, after he parked in a nearby rest area. "Everybody's being flipped around.
Ewing shared photos on Facebook of the neighboring flame's orange glow, and trees moving up on a nearby hillside -- just how nearby was difficult to tell from the dark.
By late Monday night, according to ODOT TripCheck, a nearly 70-mile stretch of Highway 22, west from the intersection with Highway 20, was closed due to the fires and buy WOW Burning Crusade Classic Gold downed trees. State Highway 126 also was closed by means of a wildfire, four kilometers west of McKenzie Bridge.