Posted on 06/26/2012 8:00:18 PM PDT by nuconvert
This is the Waldo Canyon fire. Winds grew to 65mph this afternoon and the fire went over the fire-breaks.
The Air Force Academy and surrounding neighborhood have been evacuated.
Interstare I-25 has been closed north of Colorado SPrings in order to allow local people use the highway to evacuate.
Dear Linda- Isaiah 5:20 The Lord God is just- I’m not judging you guys are having fires and we had serious water last August (Irene)
Unwise conduct brings about its own punishment. Hail happens no matter what people do, but wildfires are worse because of supposed green forest management policies.
A bit baffling how something completely routine and normal needs God's wrath for an explanation.
And a bit odd to single out one of the most religious cities in the country, suggesting poor aim.
Prayers ascending.
not sure of rescue efforts ...thanks for praying
here is a photo his brother took as he left his Mom’s home
This is a ranch, according to Google. It almost sounded like a gas station.
Actually, these fires are not caused by arson. Nearly all of the ones that are burning right now were caused by lightning. It is extremely dry and hot so that is making it very challenging but for now, they have been started by natural causes.
Thanks. The husband is a soldier and they’ve moved closer to the post. I don’t know the area and so am trusting God and their situation awareness.
Well, the fires didn’t need to be this bad. That had man’s hand upon it.
And maybe God could be more angry at a church than at a brothel because the church is abusing its faith while the brothel never had it.
That is horrific..
Oh thanks...Hopefully they get a handle on them soon. The Insurance companies are going to be bankrupt between these fires and the flooding in Florida.
will be praying
Dear Linda- Isaiah 5:20 The Lord God is just- I’m not judging you guys are having fires and we had serious water last August (Irene)
My ex-wife’s neighborhood is being evacuated so she is at my house. Also here are my daughter, her hubby and four kids. We’ve got ash falling on Fort Carson and the smell is pretty bad outside.
Insurance firms today deal with the potential for these large regional catastrophes by selling what they call “cat bonds.” While normally the bonds gain value as the insurance firm accrues profits, a catastrophe vacuums them out for a certain number of years.
"I passed through South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho by train. Among the valleys, with mountains on every side, during all that trip a mountain was never seen. This was because the fires in the mountains created such a smoke that the whole country was enveloped by it ... "
-- Major John Wesley Powell, 1889
Were there bad Green forest management policies in the West in the 1800s?
Bad stuff happens that has nothing to do with humans. Interestingly both the extremely religious and the extreme left/radical environmentalists have trouble with this concept.
The Haitian earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, and these fires are perfectly normal results of basic geology, climatology, biology, and physics that have clearly happened repeatedly in the same locations for thousands or millions of years. The people that happened to be near those events, and what they did or didn't believe were irrelevant to whether the event occurs. Obviously assuming thsee events occur, people have some control over how poorly built their houses are or whether they live below sea level, etc.
These events aren't purely random, of course, because they have clearly understood physical causes and a pattern of repeated occurance, but they are essentially random in their effect on humans - people are simply getting in the way.
The problem is it makes people feel better if it's God's punishment or human-caused "Climate change" because it implies it's less random and more controllable, somehow. It also makes people feel better if a fire is arson than if it's caused by lightning, for some reason. We can arrest arsonists, but can't arrest thunderstorms.
It's important for people to think rationally about natural disasters because based on a lot of geological and paleometeorological evidence, we've been lucky for quite a while. Of course, things simply returning to normal will either be blamed on divine punishment, or, if it's a weather-related event, on "Global Warming."
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