EasternOrthodox
Wildfires in Colorado
Posted on: 06/27/2012 01:03
Things must be bad. I can't get the Denver Post web site below, it must be overwhelmed.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_20940351/colorado-wildfire-wal...
32,000 people evacuated due to the Waldo Canyon fire, according to various tweets.
Twitter feed for #waldocanyonfire,
https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%23waldocanyonfire (mobile)
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23waldocanyonfire
At this link there is a satellite photo,
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78367&src=nha
Excerpts,
Nearly half of the United States’ airborne fire suppression equipment was operating over Colorado on June 25, 2012, CNN reported, as tens of thousands of acres burned. Fires raged in southwestern Colorado, northeastern Colorado, and multiple locations in between.
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As fires burned, Colorado also coped with extreme heat. The Denver Post reported that Denver endured triple-digit temperatures June 22 through 24, and the National Weather Service forecast temperatures of at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) for June 25 and 26, with temperatures in the upper 90s through June 29.
Colorado’s fires have followed a dry spring. Although the state experienced unusually heavy snow in February, little snow followed in March and April, part of a larger pattern of low snowfall. By June 19, 2012, conditions throughout the state ranged from unusually dry to extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
On June 25, 2012, Tim Mathewson, a fire meteorologist with the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center, remarked: “Current conditions are comparable to 2002 fire season, which was the worst in Colorado history. Fires haven’t burned as many acres at this point, but the drought conditions and fuel conditions are right up there with the 2002 season, if not worse.”
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EasternOrthodox
Posted on: 06/27/2012 01:26
I got through to the Denver Post link, there is a horrifying video of the fire, right in the town (Colorado Springs) with several houses ablaze. It hit 105 F (40.5 C) on Tuesday.
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COLORADO SPRINGS — Tens of thousands of people fled the neighborhoods north and west of Colorado Springs after the Waldo Canyon fire unleashed waves of flames late Tuesday afternoon.
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Showers of ash fell as traffic gridlocked on Interstate 25 and all major eastbound roadways, clogged full of evacuees and fire equipment. Witnesses flooded the Internet on Twitter, describing the scene as "an apocalypse" and "terrifying" and posting photos of the city wrapped in a sinister orange and black cloud.
EasternOrthodox
Posted on: 06/27/2012 01:20
I don't know why I put it this in Politics. I was working on the Euro crisis thread when I got the news from Twitter, wasn't thinking.
qwerty
Posted on: 06/27/2012 01:30
EasternOrthodox
Posted on: 06/27/2012 01:45
Thanks Qwerty, I can't post photos or videos from the iPad.
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 06/27/2012 12:28
Here's me attempting to help EO with posting some of the Waldo Canyon fire piccies from the Denver Post
qwerty
Posted on: 06/27/2012 15:22
IW ... yours has more sensational pictures but mine has better music
Would it be gauche to ask someone to pass the marshmallows. I'm just going to toast a couple by holding them up to my computer screen.
Seriously, though, this is why they need planning legislation in the states, especially out west. You can pretty well put up a house anywhere you please in the US and there are a lot of places out west where houses ought not to be built. You end up with rural residential areas smack in the middle of forests and without adequate fire protection.
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 06/27/2012 15:26
qwerty,
hey, when I was fiddling with these photos, I was thinking of bacon and my one experience with electricity safety by firefighters at my elementary school -- I will never forget that smell
(it's also amazing how music interacts with images -- I can watch the exact same scene with different music and feel very different)
graeme
Posted on: 06/27/2012 19:42
Stunning. It looks like a war zone.