Fires across Colorado

[ray1970]

If it makes you feel better I didn?t go for my morning run either, but it wasn?t because of fires, foot needed a break.


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I thought maybe you didn?t go because it was a hundred and four degrees when you woke up.

[hurley842002]

I thought maybe you didn?t go because it was a hundred and four degrees when you woke up.

LOL, you make a good point, which is why I have to wake up at 4am. I've been slacking on my days off, by sleeping in to 7am or so, and I've paid the price for it, as it's usually 90+ by the time I'm out running. Forget anything physical outside past 10 am.

[FoxtArt]

Pine gulch just updated to 121,000 acres 24 minutes ago. A huge boost from yesterday.

[hollohas]

They revised it down from yesterday...Inciweb was reporting 125,000+ acres yesterday. But they got some better mapping done last night and bumped it down a bit.

They had reported <40mph winds for almost 4 hours Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, really bad conditions. Inciweb still says it increased 35k "last night" but I don't think it had a full update today because that was the info from Wednesday.

[Hummer]

I'll probably head to GJ in a few days to irrigate. It's terribly dry there. The detours will likely take 7.5 hours instead of 4.5. For the next several years Glenwood Canyon will have even more shutdowns due to falling rock than ever before.

We hope to avoid a fire here along the Peak to Peak. Fortunately we've had some brief but good showers yesterday and today. Our mini monsoon.

[brutal]

The fire and smoke in the western US is just insane.

[BushMasterBoy]

The heat is been relentless. I have used the A/C way more than the last 13 years. Usually I can get by with just the swamp cooler. Yesterday the smoke smell was terrible. Visibility reduced to just a few miles. Map above is scary...

[ray1970]

Meteor my ass. It?s conditions like this that snuffed out the dinosaurs.

[ray1970]

And probably the American Indian too. The whole white man killed the Indian thing was just the beginning of misinformation from the media designed to cause racial tension in our country.

[BPTactical]

We are reaping the reward of forestry mismanagement for over 100 years. In 1910 wildfires totaling 3+ million acres went through Idaho and Montana killing many. This was the catalyst for modern wildfire fighting ideology.
Ever since then every fire has been aggressively fought without taking into account fires role in western coniferous forest ecology. Fire is needed for healthy forests. It keeps the Western Pine beetle in check, Ponderosa cones wont open without it, it keeps undergrowth managed to name a few.

Now when we have a fire it is a rager that cannot be contained.