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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 20:54:00 GMT -5
Two more wildfires sprang up today, both started by lightening strikes. We've had afternoon thundershowers and huge lightening storms, but, the air is so hot and dry that the moisture evaporates before it hits the ground, and if it does it's turned to instant steam and is gone, the storms kick up high winds and the fires run across ridges and jump rivers. It's so surreal, this weather, this whole summer so far. It's like nothing I've ever experienced here before. It's almost unnatural. So, I thought some of you might like to see some of the eerie beauty that are the Wildfires in Colorado. Colorado's so-called Waldo Canyon fire sent a mushroom cloud of smoke nearly 20,000 feet into the air over Colorado Springs near Pikes Peak, whose breathtaking vistas from the summit helped inspire the song "America the Beautiful".   The High Park Fire, 5 miles due west of Fort Collins, the grandaddy of them.   Remember the pics of Estes Park I posted? With the Elk on the golf course and the Stanley Hotel?   Just some random scenes.    |
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Post by rscott on Jun 26, 2012 21:52:02 GMT -5
One thing about fires, they make for beautiful sunsets.
The sunsets in the Dakotas were wonderful the summer of the big Yellowstone fire.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 22:25:27 GMT -5
One thing about fires, they make for beautiful sunsets. The sunsets in the Dakotas were wonderful the summer of the big Yellowstone fire. That they do! They really are mesmerizing. Each one is such an entity, for want of a better word! |
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Post by StormInateacup on Jun 27, 2012 0:35:42 GMT -5
Fire fronts like that'll get you a bushfire moon tonight. If you manage to get any good shots of it will you post them?
Bushfire moons make my heart stop - they're achingly, mesmerisingly beautiful.... and when you're standing under one, you just fill with something that makes you know what nuanced meaning the word "awe" has within it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 8:59:02 GMT -5
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Post by StormInateacup on Jun 27, 2012 9:08:33 GMT -5
It's difficult to even see the moon right now, the smoke is so thick. We've been getting dark heavy clouds every evening, and they are full of lightening. I'll see what I can do, but, we may have to wait a few more days to see any moon shots. The sunsets, though, have been spectacular!    It's beautiful isn't it? Fire on that scale? Terrible - but so so incredibly, incomparably beautiful. The flames licking up the tree trunks, the tops of the trees just exploding like bombs. Watching houses and barns and sheds being engulfed by it, stripped to the skeleton of frame and roof struts in minutes - The freight train roar of the fucker as it heads up a ridge at you - Lighting up the sky like that, reflected off the moon, colouring the sun - It's alive. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 9:27:36 GMT -5
We used to drive out to the Everglades when the fires would be burning and all sit around in the back of trucks smoking and drinking and watching it burn at night. It's an amazing thing to see.
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Post by Sita on Jun 27, 2012 9:30:14 GMT -5
Fire has always been a beautiful thing to me. I could spend hours just looking at a flame...
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Post by StormInateacup on Jun 27, 2012 9:31:45 GMT -5
 This was one taken during those big Victorian bushfires three years ago. It doesn't really capture how eerie they can be. But it's still pretty cool. |
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Post by marisol on Jul 1, 2012 19:37:55 GMT -5
Your pictures are beautiful Witchi.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 20:53:18 GMT -5
Your pictures are beautiful Witchi. Thanks Marisol, but, I have to admit, I cherry picked them off of news feeds and such. I wish I had a camera capable of taking pics like that. |
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Post by Random Panther on Jul 8, 2012 10:01:51 GMT -5
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Post by marisol on Jul 8, 2012 10:57:33 GMT -5
Oh, that poor little baby, makes me tearful.
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Post by firesong on Jul 19, 2012 12:42:13 GMT -5
When the Waldo Canyon fire blew out of the mountains, and into our city, it traveled almost three miles in about five minutes. Fire is a beautiful thing, but seeing an infernal tidal wave sweeping everything before it is pretty humbling...
Definitely one of the spookiest times I've ever seen here in Colorado Srings...
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Post by Michelle on Jul 19, 2012 13:12:43 GMT -5
During Australia's Ash-Wednesday bushfires I remember how the sun filtered through the heavy smoke giving everything a strange Mars-like look. All the color was shifted heavily towards the red. I've never forgotten it. I was much younger then and I really thought the world was ending.
You guys in America - You take care if close to those bushfires of yours. Are you still having those heatwaves as well?
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