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Colorado burning up!! two new fires by me in Boulder.

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Wow that's close to comfort. We just finished going through our forest fire season but thankfully it never got too close to town, though it was close enough that the smoke came in when the wind was blowing the right direction. Was very eerie. It was one of the biggest in a long time, at 39,524ha. Now we've had plenty of rain that the risk has dropped but the MNR is still urging people to be careful and use common sense. Sadly most of these fires are human caused. Seems some people are just idiots when it comes to camp fires.
 
brianmanahan said:
another good thing about living in the east and midwest - you arent past the wheat belt so you actually get rain
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Not this year, at least not in NW Ohio. We are 6+ inches under normal for rain this year and many local areas have cancelled July 4 celebrations out of fear of starting fires. That seems to have been the trend over the past several years. Wet springs and very dry summers. This year however we had a dry winter, dry spring, and (so far) bone dry dummer.
 
DaveStall said:
Not this year, at least not in NW Ohio. We are 6+ inches under normal for rain this year and many local areas have cancelled July 4 celebrations out of fear of starting fires. That seems to have been the trend over the past several years. Wet springs and very dry summers. This year however we had a dry winter, dry spring, and (so far) bone dry dummer.
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Same for central IL too. We've got *just* enough rain every 3-4 weeks to keep things somewhat green. We are way below normal.

Now my sister on the other hand is near Pensacola FL and they had like 26 inches of rain over three days time a few weeks ago, and that's before the Debby hit them this week.
 
32,000 in Springs displaced as of this morning. I've got some pictures I need to post from evacuations last night. The feeling in the city last night, at least west of I-25, was panic. It's changed to shock this morning.
 
TheSlamma said:
C130's are going off with the retardant.

It's hard here as just about every body of water in Colorado is man made and not very big in most cases.
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You have the freaking Rocky Mountains, time to build some bigger bodies of water, and greater fire breaks. Even better if you used the water as a fire break.
 
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Waldo Canyon more than doubled in size over night from ~6,200 acres to ~15,000+ acres. News said the fire line is holding at Hwy 24, fire has reached South end of Rampart Recreation area.
 
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Zedtom said:
Regional disasters are big news to local residents but are of passing interest to people far away. When the media reports on a story like a wildfire at the national level, the viewers go "wow", and lose interest quickly.

The only thing that seemed remarkable to me was the fact that fire fighting air force planes sat idle on the runway ten miles from the Colorado Springs fire until someone at the Pentagon was informed that the Air Force Academy might be threatened.
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Sounds like it's just a personal problem. I live nowhere near CO anymore, yet people at work that know where I'm from have been coming by to talk about the fires. It may be just an excuse to shoot the shit with somebody, but a lot of these people are more on top of the news than I am and have no connection to the area.
 
Good thing I got a house on the east side. Not like I could have afforded something where these people are burning at anyways. 😛

It smells like a camp fire outside, in a weird way I guess, but it smells nice.

I'm wondering how much of this state is going to burn due to all the trees that are dead from that damn beetle and if it's not going to be like this for years to come. :/
 
Nintendesert said:
I'm wondering how much of this state is going to burn due to all the trees that are dead from that damn beetle and if it's not going to be like this for years to come. :/
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Well, the La Nina pattern has definitely screwed the front range the past couple of years. I remember 2009 being a pretty wet Summer for the Denver metro area because (I think) of El Nino. We're going on a third year of drought conditions, and historically it should hopefully flip back to El Nino wet conditions sooner than later.

I'd love for a flip to El Nino, not only to save the state from burning to the ground, but also to save the 12/13 ski season.

In any case, the dead pine from all the beetles is definitely a huge problem, just waiting to go up in flames during periods of drought and record heat.
 
Well some rain was falling today, not a ton but a nice change and hopefully it helped. At least the humidity in the air will be good.
 
EagleKeeper said:
Remember. Tree huggers are against controlled burns 🙁
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Yet it's all the rich republicans building their houses right in the middle of everything so nothing can be control burned.. I remember going up 285 in the 80's and 90's and you were well into the mountains by the time you hit fairplay, now it's like a 40 mile long concrete mountain "town". So they don't want the control burs either.

the pine beetle destroyed this place and no one wants to either control burn it whether they are left or right.. no one has the money to remove all the dead trees and replant beetle resistant evergreens.. this is another example of not spending the money up front and then instead spending 8X the amount in the disaster event.
 
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TheSlamma said:
Yet it's all the rich republicans building their houses right in the middle of everything so nothing can be control burned.. I remember going up 285 in the 80's and 90's and you were well into the mountains by the time you hit fairplay, now it's like a 40 mile long concrete mountain "town".
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ban. keep your political shit out of my thread!
 
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