Fires - Stay safe everyone

We have had our share here in Colorado too, some major fires this year, one of our biggest ever.  We had to shut down the interstate in Glenwood Canyon for a week or two.   Fortunately 14 inches of snow the other nite put a bit of a damper on the Cameron Peak fire.   Most of ours this year have not been near any towns.  Lucky.  

Here is one mans take on our American West in late summer 2020.....scary.

[NY Times article I'm sure you can all find about the fires in California that I'm deleting because...] 

What a gut punch now and for what the future holds. We’ve helped destroy our planet and now the planet is taking revenge.

Some local isolated fires here in Southern Utah, but no major worries. Our bright blue skies are a thing of the past due to the haze coming over from California.

Be safe all.

Grim analysis.

[NY Times article I'm sure you can all find about the fires in California that I'm deleting because...] 

My oldest daughter and her husband live in Fort Collins, CO. This was the view from the balcony of their apartment on Monday around lunchtime. At this point, they were wondering if they'd have to evacuate. Then, after a couple days approaching 100 degrees, it snowed about a foot to the West of them. Fires are still there, but that suppressed it some. 

As an aside, the biggest fire in Colorado history burned within about 7 miles from my house and town.  That was 18 years ago. The burn area and burn scar are still at the early stages of coming back.  The aspens have started to take over and and some are now about head high. The ponderosa pines however take a real long time.  They, where they have popped they are knee high.  When we get rain,the grasses are green and have a fair foothold to prevent most erosion.

My point, in this dry west it takes a long time to get back what has been lost.

Hoping all y'all in fire danger zones stay safe. Please follow any evacuation orders as they occur.

In laws winter home in Tucson area was close to the fires and it was nerve racking a few months back.   

Having lived in So Cal many years ago I had a chance to deal with and observe the fires and as I explain to my friends in the Midwest there’s nothing like it.  I said, it’s destructive like an F5 tornado, the size and width can be like a hurricane, and in some cases they move quickly like a derecho.   Then the winds whip up (like Santa Ana’s) and all bets are off.   

A good friend of mine lives in SF and he described “its like living on Mars” and I believe it.  Scary shit.  Hope everyone stays safe and for the idiots out there making light of or downplaying the fires you can eat a giant bag of dicks. 

I just feel sick for all those that have lost so much....whole communities, how do they even try to come back???  It’s just so sad.