Fires across Colorado

[GilpinGuy]

Foggy as hell and some flakes falling at my place. Maybe a miracle, freak snowfall will happen. Anything!

[mpatch]

Logging needs reinstated to keep groves far enough appart go slow/stop beatle migration.

That’s what fires used to do. Until we stopped letting things burn many years ago. Look what stopped some of the recent fires in NOCO, old burn scars.

[GilpinGuy]

Apparently the East Troublesome fire has crested the divide and I saw a report of fire at Bear Lake in RMNP. Larimer county has issued a voluntary evac for west Estes Park.

The fire map I'm looking at has the fire about 1/2 a mile from Fern Lake in RMNP, where I was fishing 2 weeks ago. Damn shame. I hope the Greenbacks survive if it gets hit.

[hollohas]

Video of some firefighters driving up 34 at 2:38pm today. Pitch black out

https://www.facebook.com/28176214859...1781447923553/

[mpatch]

Video of some firefighters driving up 34 at 2:38pm today. Pitch black out

https://www.facebook.com/28176214859...1781447923553/

Wasn’t much different in south Fort Collins and north Loveland a bit ago. Had a crew check in around 3 asking for headlamps, somewhat jokingly.

[GilpinGuy]

Wasn’t much different in south Fort Collins and north Loveland a bit ago. Had a crew check in around 3 asking for headlamps, somewhat jokingly.

Yeah, I sent that link to my brother in Loveland and he said the same thing.

[hollohas]

Troublesome is 170,000 acres now.

[mpatch]

Troublesome is 170,000 acres now.

At least it’s properly named for a change.

[Hummer]

On another note, last week our vehicles were bathed in smoke from the fires. Today I took my truck and wife's car to the car wash. The odor of smoke washed off and aerosolized around me. I'm glad to be shed of it.

[Gman]

At least it’s properly named for a change.

I think the name is now inadequate as that blaze is an overachiever.