Wildfires

[pete42]

Back to the fires and the people affected by them you can count my niece and her family as being one of them.
she too lives in CS and has sent me lots of pictures of the fire near where she works, so far their home is safe

here in the east we have been living with high temps often in the 100's most lawns are brown I haven't mowen
my yard in over two weeks, yesterday we did get our first big rain fall in quite a while there is a ban on
any outside fires other than grills.

but we do need to keep all of our "friends" in our thoughts as we go about enjoying this great country.

I know except for few exceptions I have enjoyed the past 70 plus years.

pete 70 and holding......................holding a cane, holding a walker, ect.

[mollyteardrop]

The Waldo Canyon Fire is fully contained now and smoldering internally. It will probably have hot spots u til a good snow. There are others still going. People have gone back to their houses that survived, but so many are displaced and the rebuilding will take a long long time. Finally taking the teardrop out....

[stumphugger]

Glad folks can go home now.

I saw some photos of the neighborhoods in the Waldo Fire area. There were trees right up against houses. I was wondering if there are rules prohibiting or restricting cutting trees in those areas?

Sunset Magazine did a good magazine a few years ago on what to do to make your home more fire resistant. They went into good detail on what plants that are best for landscaping.

A good book to read about a tragic Colorado fire is Fire On The Mountain, by John N. McClean.

[mollyteardrop]

I am not sure what local neighborhoods do or require, but another threatened neighborhood had been taking fire mitigation steps for years and it paid off. The trouble with the Waldo fire was that the winds turned it into something like a blow torch when it came over the ridge, so even mitigation might not have helped. My daughter lives on the edge of a Colorado town and they have been cutting and clearing around their house. There is a lot of info available about steps to take, best roofs, siding, clearing, etc....but when nature takes over, sometimes none of that helps. Another side effect is that displaced wildlife have been abundant in the city...so we have to be more careful about trash, deer on major roads, etc. and of course the scammers have arrived, so I volunteer for a local TV station to help people not get sucked in by con artists taking advantage with rental, rebuilding scams.