Colorado Wildfire

[sumdumguy]

Whatsup with that?

[TOM4CWB]

Whatsup with that?

High gusty winds [up to 100mph] causing down power lines; likely started the fire, very sad... very dry... little they could do...

Reminded me of Ft. MacMurray…

[TOM4CWB]

High gusty winds [up to 100mph] causing down power lines; likely started the fire, very sad... very dry... little they could do...

Reminded me of Ft. Mack...

BloombergBloomberg
Wind-Whipped Wildfires Devour Hundreds of Homes in Colorado

Vincent Del Giudice and Joe Ryan
Fri, December 31, 2021, 3:39 AM
(Bloomberg) -- Hurricane-force winds fueled wildfires near Boulder, Colorado, destroying hundreds of homes, overwhelming firefighters and forcing the evacuation of entire drought-stricken towns.
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More than 500 dwellings were engulfed in flames on Thursday, Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle reported at a news briefing, warning there could be casualties. Flames also gutted a large hotel.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who lives in Boulder, declared a state of emergency as thousands abandoned the communities of Superior and Louisville, jamming roads and highways. Residents in other parts of Boulder County were warned they too may need to leave.

“We saw a line of flames at least a mile long,” Carmen Porter, who evacuated her home in Boulder County near Louisville, said by telephone. “Houses in the subdivision to the south, across the road from us, burned for sure.”

After nightfall, the high winds had subsided but skies were orange in flame and the blistering heat was detected by a weather satellite 22,000 miles above the planet, the National Weather Service office in Boulder said on Twitter.

Wind gusts roaring in from the Rocky Mountains reached as high as 110 miles (177 kilometers) an hour, prompting the weather service to issue an alert on Twitter saying “If you are in Louisville, this is a life threatening situation. Leave Now!”

“We are literally watching it burn,” said Superior Mayor Clint Folsom, quoted by the Denver Post. “This is devastating for our people.”

The governor called the fires “unprecedented” saying they “destroyed hundreds of homes, businesses and have displaced thousands,” according to an emailed statement. Blotches of flame scattered far and wide could be seen from a flight departing Denver International Airport.

The primary blaze, the Marshall fire, had burned about 1,600 acres as of 5 p.m., the Denver Gazette reported. About 15,000 homes and businesses across the state, mostly in Boulder County, were without power as of 4 a.m. Friday, according to Poweroutage.us, which tracks utility outages. That’s down from more than 47,000 late Thursday.

Disaster services opened evacuation centers across Boulder County. A special site to shelter horses and other large animals at the county fairgrounds filled up and a second site for animals was opened in neighboring Jefferson County.

Patients at Centura-Avista Adventist Hospital in Superior were “safely evacuated” to other facilities, hospital operator Centura said in a statement.

Away from the fires, the winds flipped large trucks in the Denver suburb of Arvada on Thursday."

[bucket]

I am wondering since they will call on experts to explain how this happened and how to blame it on climate change, why are none of these climatards using their intelligence to put in preventative measures to avoid these things.

I am not saying the floods could have been avoided in the Sumas prairie but there are mitigation efforts that would have cost alot less than the cleanup, had they been done.

These fires are always explainable after the fact , then why not be proactive with presentation.

Maybe a pipe around that holds water with sprinklers plumbed in that can be turned on to help slow the advancing fires.

People will say it can't be done. Well they put a camera on mars along with a drone so it can't be that far out of reach can it?

Multi million dollar homes in California with pavement to the front door yet no one thinks it might be wise to have fire protection for the coming climate change issues.

Its not that these things happen that irritates me, its the experts that have 20/20 hindsight and learn nothing to advance some preventative measures to be proactive in the " fight against climate change"

What they want is their speaking fees and 15 minutes of fame.


I am assuming Greta Thunberg is taking environmental science somewhere in the world or has she been promoted to Dean of some university already?

[shtferbrains]

Get the trees out from right underneath the transmision lines might cut down considerable on the fires.

But that's not realy considered because everyone knows you can't cut down trees because the reduce C02.
As long as they arn't on fire.

[Sheepwheat]

Climate change for sure.

[sumdumguy]

In Europe above-ground power lines weren’t visible where we went. Even in cities you had to hunt down the traffic lights because they aren’t up high.

[TOM4CWB]

Just saw news report (RFD TV) from Colorado, that a transformer exploded at the start, which then spread with the extreme winds.