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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2012 15:20:16 GMT -5
It's so damned hot our brains have turned mush! It's 105 degrees out there right now!
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Post by rscott on Jun 25, 2012 18:32:01 GMT -5
We've been about ten degrees above normal all year. Tomorrow we start a week of hundred degree weather, these are the kinds of temps usually only seen in August. Everyone around here is sleeping during the heat of the day and cutting and bailing hay at night.
Any fires close to you or Glen Haven??
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 10:30:06 GMT -5
We've been about ten degrees above normal all year. Tomorrow we start a week of hundred degree weather, these are the kinds of temps usually only seen in August. Everyone around here is sleeping during the heat of the day and cutting and bailing hay at night. Any fires close to you or Glen Haven?? There are 9, count em, 9 fires burning up and down the front range. The High Park fire is about 20 miles north and west of me, the Estes Park Fire is about 25 miles due west. The air quality is so bad it's hard to breathe. It's like a perfect storm, hot, dry, windy with millions of acres of beetle kill. We're looking at yet another 102+ degree day. 5th in a row. All the heat index records have been broken. Yesterday it was 105 at 5pm! This is brutal. We are sleeping during the heat and trying to get stuff done late at night or early mornings too. Which reminds me, time to go bring all the dogs in and batten down.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jun 26, 2012 10:50:22 GMT -5
Get all the leaf litter out of your gutters. Clog up your down pipes and fill the gutters with water, Trim any over hanging tree branches well away from the roof. Remove any potential fuel, esp stacked firewood well away from the main house.
If that little dozer of yours is in working order yet, clear a fire break of a couple of metres width all the way round your property. If you have a basement area, get water and woollen blankets down there, along with canned food, torches and batteries.
If the fires look like approaching the house, cover all the windows in non flammable, heavy fabrics. Keep the dogs and cats inside.Have their cages/travel boxes ready at the doors.
Get all your hoses attached to taps and ready to be used . If you are told to evacuate make a form decision to either go early or stay. DO NOT wait till the fires are approaching and then make a panicked decision to leave.
Keep woollen blankets inside the car in case you have to flee. Get all your essential documents together in a sealed (preferably metal) container and ready to go with you.
Keep stout leather soles shoes on or within easy reach at all times. Two pairs of woollen socks. Dress in cotton or woollen fabrics. Make sure your arms and legs are fully covered if you do have to evacuate.
(I'm Australian. I have a very fucking healthy respect for fire and have been in the middle of enough fire fronts to know you have a very short window of opportunity to decide whether you'll fight or flee.)
eta: Keep a battery operated radio handy at all times in case you lose mains power. You'll need to hear news updates to track the fire front and remain aware of evacuation notices..
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 11:02:22 GMT -5
I'm far enough east of the foothills to not have to worry about the fires getting to me and there are very few trees on my property. They have cut fire breaks along the Eastern edges of both of the fires that are burning. My sister is much closer to the High Park Fire, and is ready to go at a moment's notice. But, there is a long reservoir between her and the fire lines. They have pretty much determined that the High Park fire is going to have to wait for first snows to be put completely out. They're just pretty much directing it west and north, deeper in to the mountains and doing damage control to homes in it's path. 1/3 of all the worlds tanker planes are in Colorado right now! This was coming, it was only a matter of time. We've spent the last 50 years putting our every natural fire that has come up, not clearing brush and dead fall and then the Pine Beetles moved in to our overly stressed forests, and WHOOSH, mother nature takes over and cleans the place up. It will be beneficial, eventually. It will renew the forests, but, the loss of property is horrendous. Amazingly only one life has been lost! A few fire fighters have been hospitalized for various damage, mostly having to do with the heat they are forced to work in. Those paople are heroes, every one of them!
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Post by StormInateacup on Jun 26, 2012 11:16:20 GMT -5
Firemen are the only blokes in uniform I have ever harboured any kind of fantasies about!! LMAO
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Post by rscott on Jun 26, 2012 11:39:30 GMT -5
Firemen are about the only blokes in uniform I have much respect for anymore.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jun 26, 2012 11:49:22 GMT -5
Firemen are about the only blokes in uniform I have much respect for anymore ever had any respect for. FIXT!!
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