Friday, August 21, 2020

Colorado Wildfires


Colorado now has four major uncontained wildfires and many more small ones that are contained. 

The header picture, taken off a Facebook page, is looking west towards the east mouth of Glenwood canyon. The Grizzly Creek fire is burning on both sides and has closed I-70 and the Union Pacific railroad lines.

Yesterday, a much smaller brush fire temporarily closed I-25 at the Colorado/Wyoming line. That fire was quickly contained.

Closer to home the Cameron Peak fire, 45 miles WWN of Ft Collins has CO 14 over Cameron Pass closed. While most of these fires are caused by dry lightning, that one was human caused.

No clouds this morning for our walk and normally the mountains would be shining in the distance.

 All the smoke is causing problems for those with breathing problems. My vehicles are getting a dusting of ash everyday.

All of this is “normal” for a semi-arid state like Colorado. The climate change bloodhounds are howling. I did find something more balanced with some useful information and observations. A fairly long read.


Given the liberal slant of the organization, almost good journalism, at least by today’s standards.

This year most of the action is in the northern part of the state. Given the rugged terrain and remoteness, most fires are being fought from the air.

The weather forecast is for several more days of hot and dry.

9 comments:

Ami said...

I really hate fire season. I get that nature does a burn now and then, but of course that's better when people and their homes aren't threatened.

It was five years ago that my folks in E Oregon were loaded into the car and ready to go at a moment's notice. The fire up the canyon stopped 14 inches from my brother's house, even though no one was there to fight it or see. It was later when my other brother went to check it out that we knew how close it had been. Scores of families weren't so lucky.

Well Seasoned Fool said...

Last year a brush fire burned the old family homestead but thankfully missed the graveyard.

LSP said...

I'll pray for rain, which we could use here too...

Old NFO said...

Say a prayer for those pilots... That's rough work in more ways than one.

Well Seasoned Fool said...

LSP
Thank you.

OldNFO
That it is.

drjim said...

And there's no rain in the forecast until next Wednesday.

Well Seasoned Fool said...

Morning walk today the smoke smell is noticeable. Feel sorry for those with respiratory problems.

drjim said...

I thought I could smell it last night. Kind of a "burning newspaper" smell.

Well Seasoned Fool said...

Good analogy.