Ya can clean em up.
All’s ya need is a knife.
It’s why they invented spices, allegedly.
Boulder County Area Fire
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All’s ya need is a knife.
It’s why they invented spices, allegedly.
raisingarizona
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I’ve been telling my girl friend this for years and it’s gotten me nowhere.
Looks like my son won the wildfire lottery...this time. Bought a house in Arvada last spring, 14 miles south of Louisville.
Whole neighborhoods reduced to ash, devastation. He rented in Louisville when he first moved to CO. They're dealing with snow and power outages now, he said his lights have been flickering in Arvada. May have some shingle damage from the high winds too.
Whole neighborhoods reduced to ash, devastation. He rented in Louisville when he first moved to CO. They're dealing with snow and power outages now, he said his lights have been flickering in Arvada. May have some shingle damage from the high winds too.
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MarzNC
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December 31, 2021
www.npr.org
Urban wildfires burned 6,000 acres and hundreds of homes near Denver
Officials call it a miracle that there've been no reports of deaths in the blazes, which destroyed at least 500 homes — and perhaps twice that number. In some cases families had just minutes to flee.
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Benny Profane
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First, sympathies to the people who lost everything in a flash. My lord, that was quick.
But, I wish the semantics of all this would change. It was not a "natural disaster", it was a man made disaster. Those homes were built in a vulnerable place that a hundred years ago would have maybe had a ranch or two. And, once the fire starts burning homes, it's no longer a "grass fire", it's an almost urban fire involving highly flammable man made materials and fuels. Lots of gas tanks in cars and heating oil went up in that fire, and, if there were natural gas lines in those neighborhoods, well, that fueled it too, before the shut off. The grass had long burnt out before the real damage started. But, the neighborhood will probably be built back with even larger homes with no real thought of, hey, how can we prevent this from happening again? Nope, heads in sand. Natural disaster. Don't get me going about how the most damaging thing to the environment is a development of 3-4000 sq. ft. homes sitting right next to each other. Sweet justice? Maybe.
I have a friend who lived on a golf course in Evergreen, up in the foothills. He was surrounded by pine, and it was really only a matter of time before he got hit, but, he moved before that happened. But, what killed me one day was watching his next door neighbor put a new cedar shake roof on his Macmansion. Holy crap, I thought. This is what happens when there is no sensible regulation. Freedum
As always, I refer people to the writings of Ed Quillen, and his ruminations on Stupid Zones.
wildfiretoday.com
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But, I wish the semantics of all this would change. It was not a "natural disaster", it was a man made disaster. Those homes were built in a vulnerable place that a hundred years ago would have maybe had a ranch or two. And, once the fire starts burning homes, it's no longer a "grass fire", it's an almost urban fire involving highly flammable man made materials and fuels. Lots of gas tanks in cars and heating oil went up in that fire, and, if there were natural gas lines in those neighborhoods, well, that fueled it too, before the shut off. The grass had long burnt out before the real damage started. But, the neighborhood will probably be built back with even larger homes with no real thought of, hey, how can we prevent this from happening again? Nope, heads in sand. Natural disaster. Don't get me going about how the most damaging thing to the environment is a development of 3-4000 sq. ft. homes sitting right next to each other. Sweet justice? Maybe.
I have a friend who lived on a golf course in Evergreen, up in the foothills. He was surrounded by pine, and it was really only a matter of time before he got hit, but, he moved before that happened. But, what killed me one day was watching his next door neighbor put a new cedar shake roof on his Macmansion. Holy crap, I thought. This is what happens when there is no sensible regulation. Freedum
As always, I refer people to the writings of Ed Quillen, and his ruminations on Stupid Zones.
The "Stupid Zone" - Wildfire Today
An essay by Ed Quillen in the High Country News has two themes. One is to combine the federal land management agencies into one–a concept that has been tossed around for decades. The other is to designate “Stupid Zones”. Here is an excerpt from the article: A Stupid Zone is an area that is...
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Life in the Stupid Zone
Writer Ed Quillen says that town and county planners should adopt a new category called the Stupid Zone. You know some Stupid Zone residents, I’m sure: those nearsighted folks who choose to live at the bottom of avalanche chutes, on top of earthquake faults, or in the middle of a 10-year...
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Ya can get lots of little ones to plant from The Upstate Nursery in Saratoga here:
saratogahalfday
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Trees need water though, and the west is still in the early stages of a long duration drought (think centuries).
The information on getting NY state’s trees wasn’t for folks out west, just saying.
saratogahalfday
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Gotcha, I've used them for trees myself. ?
