we live about 20 minutes north of this fire and could easily see the massive smoke plume ... this fire is REALLY bad news: this is not a mountain fire in a sparely populated area, but instead is an urban fire burning out of control in heavily populated suburbs ...
we’ve had almost no moisture for months and have had very high winds every day for the last 2-3 weeks, so it started out as dry as i’ve ever seen it in this area since i moved here 37 years ago, and these continuous warm dry winds have dried it out even more ... the fire potential here is explosive and my fear is we could see more of these devastating fires ...
we live just a couple of miles east of the foothills in a semi-rural area not dissimilar to Marshal, and are reviewing our bug-out list and plan because a fire like this could potentially spring up in our area as well ...
SUPPOSEDLY we’ll be getting a bit of moisture for the first time Friday (it just started to snow a tiny bit) and Friday night, maybe a few inches of snow total ... that’ll probably help some, but if these winds keep up, the moisture could be gone in just a few hours ...
and yes, totally devastating ...
It snowed like h3ll starting yesterday. That should give them some relief - in the last 3-4 months we’ve (talking about the state, I live a distance from Boulder County) had like maybe one inch of snow.