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Colorado Springs Fires - 32,000 people have been evacuated
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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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; coloradosprings; fire; usafa; vanity; waldocanyon; wildfires
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To: gortklattu

That is the insurance I have, USAA. We just had hail damage a few weeks back in Colorado Springs. My husbands truck had $2800 worth of damage. It’s in the shop now.


121 posted on 06/27/2012 7:07:57 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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To: Linda Frances

I watched that hailstorm while staying at the Olympic Training Center in COS. That was quite a storm. We surely could use a storm like it now.


122 posted on 06/27/2012 7:13:51 AM PDT by gortklattu (God knows who is best, everybody else is making guesses - Tony Snow)
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To: yorkie
The Flagstaff fire is so named because it is almost upon the main access road, Flagstaff Road, in that area. While it doesn't have the inaccessibility problems that contribute mightily to the High Park and Waldo Canyon fires, access is difficult enough, especially for big rigs that firefighting demands.

There are fires up in Wyoming, over in Utah, and down in New Mexico and Arizona. The weather has been so dry for so long, everything everywhere is tinder dry.

We're just coming off 5 straight days of record-breaking 100+ degree weather (tied for the longest ever run of such temperatures), and most everywhere, humidity runs in single digits.

The wind is a constant problem, and it's exacerbated where these wildfires run.

We're supposed to cool down to 98 today, but they said the same thing about yesterday, which turned out to be 105. Thunderstorms are in the forecast, it's true, but local weather person Kathy Sabine estimates the Flagstaff fire was the result of no less than 51 lightening strikes in that area within a very short time frame.

Where I am, right now it's not too bad, but should the wind shift to the West, that will change in quick order.

Playing golf is problematic, as the air generally stinks. Damned if I'll draw that stuff into my lungs!

CA....

123 posted on 06/27/2012 7:45:38 AM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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124 posted on 06/27/2012 7:49:27 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Linda Frances
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125 posted on 06/27/2012 8:00:51 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It's time to take out the trash in DC.)
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To: Strategerist

For the most I agree with your opinion that most of the time people wanting blame is part of this need for people to not believe there are random occurrences. However, in regards to these firesbI believe they could have been prevented or at least limited with controlled burns. The Western US is designed to burn, it’s part of the natural cycle there and Nature’s way of clearing brush. With controlled burns, these required burns take place piecemeal and under the watch of firefighters.


126 posted on 06/27/2012 9:28:38 AM PDT by chargers fan
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To: chargers fan

I have heard from persons in the know that there is a sequence to responses to a forest fire; you just can’t water bomb a small fire into submission asap. It has to grow and consume a lot of acres before aircraft are summoned.

I’ve also heard that the Forest Service is bogged into near-submission by red tape and union rules. The way their spokesperson talks, she was hired to do just that.....yabber.....yabber....yabber.

Word here is that the Air Force Academy acted on its own, creating fire breaks with their own bulldozers; bypassing the federal fire authority. I haven’t seen that yet, but raise a glass to them is they did.


127 posted on 06/27/2012 9:39:15 AM PDT by gortklattu (God knows who is best, everybody else is making guesses - Tony Snow)
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To: cornfedcowboy

Thanks for the link, cornfedcowboy


128 posted on 06/27/2012 10:14:47 AM PDT by unkus
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To: KC Burke

Evacuation orders were just announced for Woodland Park. They were previously under pre-evac orders.


129 posted on 06/27/2012 11:49:43 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

Well dang. That sounds pretty bad for Woodland Park. As steep as it is there it will be hard to protect structures and homes I imagine.


130 posted on 06/27/2012 2:23:51 PM PDT by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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To: SueRae
[I’ve been through the Garden of the Gods, took my daughter riding there.]


131 posted on 06/27/2012 7:40:09 PM PDT by OldEarlGray (The POTUS is FUBAR until the White Hut is sanitized with American Tea)
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To: nuconvert

The leftist aka progressive treehuggers are blaming this fire on global warming. Not the simply fact. They have prevent harvesting the forest of America. Better known as forest thinning. There are more trees per acre of land in America today. Which is part of the problem. Then before them there evil Europeans arrived. More trees on the same acre of land. Makes for weaker trees. It means they burn better. The leftist aka progressive treehuggers do not want to see tree stumps. They prefer forest fires that basically clear cut the forest. Nothing but chicken little morons. Killing the planet. In the name of saving the planet


132 posted on 06/27/2012 7:55:09 PM PDT by DMG2FUN
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To: OldEarlGray

Yup - Academy Riding Stables..fond memories of that trip. I sent them email hoping they’re ok. Spoke to a co-worker nearby (south of the Springs), air quality is terrible. Prayers for all affected.


133 posted on 06/27/2012 8:04:38 PM PDT by SueRae (The Tower of Sauron falls on 11.06.2012)
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To: Dallas59
Here's a post fire picture of the Mountain Shadows neighborhood showing which houses are still standing. The mandatory evacuation is still in effect, so this is the only way for residents to see if their houses are still standing.
134 posted on 06/28/2012 1:45:21 PM PDT by Aunt Polgara
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To: Linda Frances
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135 posted on 06/28/2012 4:15:12 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: Dallas59

Thanks much!


136 posted on 06/28/2012 4:49:27 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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