Sorry I've been tied up. A close friend watched her house burn on national TV and others are evacuated or pending evacuation.
WALDO CANYON FIRE: Blaze leaves barren landscape
I'm proud of my friends in the gaming and military community who have opened their homes to tens of thousands of families and pets and livestock who have been forced to evacuate.
My home and family are safe, but I've very busy.
Thanks in advance for the good thoughts!!!
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PS I'll catch up on FAWTL and Paizocon as soon as I can.
Sorry to hear about your friends house, BT. Positive waves to you and yours.
Thanks! They lived there for 23 years; I don't think they took that much with them because this is the worst fire in decades. It seemed like a routine evac.
I know a little something about seeing a long time home get destroyed. But at least they're ok. Things can be replaced, people - not yet.
I've had a couple of friends lose homes to fires, but it seems worse on this scale.
EDIT: You're right though, things are just things in the long run.
At some points in time smoke hid a fourteen thousand foot mountain from view, and I'm more than twenty miles from the fire.
Be safe BT. I am sorry about your friend's house. That does indeed suck. But at least they are ok.
I lived in the Springs for a few years. It's a beautiful area. This is a terrible fire. Hope you remain safe.
Thanks guys!
damn that is horrible
stay safe BT
and my best positive waves to your friends
Bt, I'm sorry. That is one of my wife's worst nightmares, watching our home and things burn. I am glad your friend are unhurt, and I pray the are able to rebuild swiftly.
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A guy I used to game with lost his home in the High Park fire in Ft Collins. It's a shame and I hope he got his gaming stuff as he had a ton of mini's, and other gaming things. Not to mention his beautiful mountain home.
It's a rough year for those in Colorado.
High Park - Nearing 3 weeks
Waldo - Little over a week
Flatiron - less than 1 week
And to top it off there are more scattered else where
All of us in the Front range have been breathing heavy smoke which is not good.
But the fires are a good thing in a way, just not loss of homes, that part hurts
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For a visual experiance, Here is a blog from the VC of the area, and also a friend. The Smoke blows over where I live, and for the past few days its been raining ash. I'm not worried over my house, though, its pretty far away from where the fire is, but I worry for my Brother's Fiance. Her family lives up there, and we haven't heard from them as of yet.
Good friend of mine lives around those parts.
He wonders nightly if he'll wake up on fire.
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My friend's hometown was burning and then last night it stopped burning.
He's been sending us his sister's s$~*ty cell phone pics and it looks pretty damn smoky. Fortunately the fire was on the opposite side of town from his parents' house. Well fortunately for them.
Stay safe, BT, and condolences to your friend.
So, I was watching the news here and... is there anywhere east of the Rockies that's not on fire/in the midst of a storm?
Ditto in Tennessee. No fire, no rain; just muggy, hot, and cloudless.
Prayers to people who are in worse than mild discomfort.
Good luck best wishes to everybody under threat or have loved ones in the effected areas. From Australia (If its not in a Drought or underwater its either on fire or suffering a plague of locusts, toads, rabbits or mice).
It's easy to become sort of immune to things like this, since we get so much reportage of all the things that affect people. It seems the greatest losses are things like family pics and the things that keep people tied to their friends and family, much more than losing houses and such.
Losing stuff sucks, but losing what's irreplaceable is the worst. Best wishes to all of you.
I'm inclined to put all of our family memorabilia in one safe place, so I can grab it fast if we need to bug out.
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I hope you folks know your fire drill points for your areas - and Make sure if you got land to fire break the perimeter to four meters wide - minimum.
Actually after this every one in colorado should be required by law to put in an hour a week training as firies with bush-fire specialization. Chainsaw use and firebreak preparation/maintenance needs to be taught to everyone. Every property needs an underground tank reservoir and mist projection tower just to blanket the community in a perpetual mist of water.
I hope you folks know your fire drill points for your areas - and Make sure if you got land to fire break the perimeter to four meters wide - minimum.
Actually after this every one in colorado should be required by law to put in an hour a week training as firies with bush-fire specialization. Chainsaw use and firebreak preparation/maintenance needs to be taught to everyone. Every property needs an underground tank reservoir and mist projection tower just to blanket the community in a perpetual mist of water.
I am not sure that the conditions are the same in Colorado as they are in Australia - they maybe similar but it is best not to give advice on fire safety without proper knowledge.
I would suggest that they contact their local fire fighting services for information on protecting property and homes.
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I hope you folks know your fire drill points for your areas - and Make sure if you got land to fire break the perimeter to four meters wide - minimum.
Actually after this every one in colorado should be required by law to put in an hour a week training as firies with bush-fire specialization. Chainsaw use and firebreak preparation/maintenance needs to be taught to everyone. Every property needs an underground tank reservoir and mist projection tower just to blanket the community in a perpetual mist of water.
I am not sure that the conditions are the same in Colorado as they are in Australia - they maybe similar but it is best not to give advice on fire safety without proper knowledge.
I would suggest that they contact their local fire fighting services for information on protecting property and homes.
Who doesn't have proper knowledge? If they had put down a mile wide firebreak around communities in the southern Australian States as i had recommended - before the bush fires reoccurred - they wouldn't have lost lives. What did I get back?
"Your suggestion seems a bit extreme!"
"We already have a bush-fire management program in place."
They should have shot the Mayors and Aldermen of those communities for Murder after those fires gutted community after community.
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You shouldn't talk about violence against elected officials.
Awwwww....
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I hope you folks know your fire drill points for your areas - and Make sure if you got land to fire break the perimeter to four meters wide - minimum.
Actually after this every one in colorado should be required by law to put in an hour a week training as firies with bush-fire specialization. Chainsaw use and firebreak preparation/maintenance needs to be taught to everyone. Every property needs an underground tank reservoir and mist projection tower just to blanket the community in a perpetual mist of water.
I am not sure that the conditions are the same in Colorado as they are in Australia - they maybe similar but it is best not to give advice on fire safety without proper knowledge.
I would suggest that they contact their local fire fighting services for information on protecting property and homes.
They are not and this sort of wildfire is a very extreme situation that is far from normal.
Also I'm not sure that much water is as freely available as this plan would need it to be.
They are not and this sort of wildfire is a very extreme situation that is far from normal.I hope you folks know your fire drill points for your areas - and Make sure if you got land to fire break the perimeter to four meters wide - minimum.
Actually after this every one in colorado should be required by law to put in an hour a week training as firies with bush-fire specialization. Chainsaw use and firebreak preparation/maintenance needs to be taught to everyone. Every property needs an underground tank reservoir and mist projection tower just to blanket the community in a perpetual mist of water.
I am not sure that the conditions are the same in Colorado as they are in Australia - they maybe similar but it is best not to give advice on fire safety without proper knowledge.
I would suggest that they contact their local fire fighting services for information on protecting property and homes.
I was trying to say Dingo is in no way qualified to give advice... and that it is best to go to relevant local authority for advice.
Conditions vary from place to place and what works in one place can lead to the loss of life in another.
I was trying to say Dingo is in no way qualified to give advice... and that it is best to go to relevant local authority for advice.Conditions vary from place to place and what works in one place can lead to the loss of life in another.
I couldn't afford a bulldozer to knock down my neighbors' houses to build a mile wide firebreak anyhowze.
I couldn't afford a bulldozer to knock down my neighbors' houses to build a mile wide firebreak anyhowze.
That would be cool, though.
"Outta my way! Fire safety coming through!" BRRRAAAAAPPPP!
thirsty koala
Now I have idea for a fire-fighting druid character with koala animal companion...
I give it four thumbs up.
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They are not and this sort of wildfire is a very extreme situation that is far from normal.I hope you folks know your fire drill points for your areas - and Make sure if you got land to fire break the perimeter to four meters wide - minimum.
Actually after this every one in colorado should be required by law to put in an hour a week training as firies with bush-fire specialization. Chainsaw use and firebreak preparation/maintenance needs to be taught to everyone. Every property needs an underground tank reservoir and mist projection tower just to blanket the community in a perpetual mist of water.
I am not sure that the conditions are the same in Colorado as they are in Australia - they maybe similar but it is best not to give advice on fire safety without proper knowledge.
I would suggest that they contact their local fire fighting services for information on protecting property and homes.
I was trying to say Dingo is in no way qualified to give advice... and that it is best to go to relevant local authority for advice.
Conditions vary from place to place and what works in one place can lead to the loss of life in another.
Dont listen to 8th Dwarf...he lives in a greenie run state where the government fines you ten thousand dollars for trying to clear you block with a chainsaw and put in a fire break. As far as they are concerned Fire Break is a dirty work. Its OK for you to burn to death as long as you dont get to protect your own property.