Boulder County Area Fire

[Low Angle Life]

As always, I refer people to the writings of Ed Quillen, and his ruminations on Stupid Zones.

Stupid Zones defined

Stupid Zones defined

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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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Never heard of the term "stupid zones" but it's an interesting, concept. The front range is a suburban hellhole, development doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon adding more fuel for these fires. That said, a fairly substantial portion of the US is living in a place that may not be easily habitable as natural disaster events increase frequency. Here in my home state most of us are in pretty bad shape for faring with sea level rise and increased extreme precipitation events like Ida. Part of the reason I want to make more permanent roots further into upstate New York is the high ground and continued increase in annual rainfall.

 

[Ripitz]

Part of the reason I want to make more permanent roots further into upstate New York is the high ground and continued increase in annual rainfall.

Lots of flooding, inland, upstate and up high too.

 

[Low Angle Life]

Lots of flooding, inland, upstate and up high too.

No doubt, also these weather events where 7-9" of rain come down in 24 hours at rates of 3" an hour change what is considered "flood prone".

 

[Benny Profane]

Never heard of the term "stupid zones" but it's an interesting, concept. The front range is a suburban hellhole, development doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon adding more fuel for these fires. That said, a fairly substantial portion of the US is living in a place that may not be easily habitable as natural disaster events increase frequency. Here in my home state most of us are in pretty bad shape for faring with sea level rise and increased extreme precipitation events like Ida. Part of the reason I want to make more permanent roots further into upstate New York is the high ground and continued increase in annual rainfall.
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Yeah, the shorelines. When I was born, hardly anybody lived next to the ocean. I can still remember visiting the shaw at Pt. Pleasent as a six year old, and it was still kind of remote. Now, furgetaboutit, there's literally trillions of development just in Jersey, right next to the ocean. Sandy had little effect. All the taxpayers rebuilt it. Absurd.
I just visited an old college friend on the Eastern shore in Maryland. His wife is a real climate change Karen. She totally doesn't get the hypocrisy of buying a three thousand sq ft home in a development of many other brand new three to five thousand sq ft retirement homes that are essentially five feet above the water level, and spews thousands of gallons of sewage into the Chesapeake and emit who knows what in harmful gases in order to heat and cool these indulgent "retirement" homes built on former farmland. I bit my tongue.

 

[tirolski]

Lots of flooding, inland, upstate and up high too.

I bet y'all would still bitch at the last ice age when this was thousands of miles of thick glaciers for many centuries.
Backcountry skiing must've been sweet back then, just saying.