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PINETREE

06/28/2012 08:21AM

going to this state.Record heat and hot temperatures past few years has not helped.

Anybody have friends in these areas? Fires

Sig: All of us our Dreamers. Dreams are what started everything. We our asking ourselves a great question? all of us interested in wilderness preservation are asking...What kind of world do we want.?

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arctic

06/28/2012 08:35AM

That's a terrible disaster. As the climate warms and dries out across the West, and urban areas continue to expand into fire-prone areas, we will likely see more and more of this type of thing. Earlier this spring a similar thing happened in Reno.

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PINETREE

06/28/2012 08:50AM

Much of this they were afraid of with massive spruce disease dieoff and insects killing them all the way to Alaska because of warmer weather in recent years.
Record heat across much of that area this week.
I see Hill city in Kansas(where ever that is?) had 115 degrees F. yesterday.In the past week, 1,011 records have been broken around the country, including 251 new daily high temperature records on Tuesday.

Sig: All of us our Dreamers. Dreams are what started everything. We our asking ourselves a great question? all of us interested in wilderness preservation are asking...What kind of world do we want.?

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Misguided

06/28/2012 09:31AM

Hill city is north of I-70 in....well the middle of nowhere. Left KC at 9 yesterday morning and it was sweltering already. Went through manhattan around noon and bank clock said 103. Heat bad enough to warp tracks and cause pretty big derailment in junction city, ks. Forecast looks bad. Now where are those kids who will mow my lawn for 10 bucks....

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Misguided

06/28/2012 09:39AM

Guess I should state I do "ride the rails" for a living.

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Curmudgeon

06/28/2012 11:00AM

I leave for Colorado on Saturday for a hiking/camping trip. I really have done very little planning this year, so I'm not sure what we are gonna find.

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Sotaman21

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06/28/2012 11:10AM

Heading there in the Morning to help....

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inspector13

06/28/2012 11:48AM

quote Sotaman21: "Heading there in the Morning to help...."

Stay safe!

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Huntindave

06/28/2012 12:15PM

quote PINETREE: "going to this state.Record heat and hot temperatures past few years has not helped.

Anybody have friends in these areas? Fires "

I have family in Colorado Springs. Not a good situation there for sure. All I can do for them is hope and pray, which is all they can do themselves.

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HenryParsons

06/28/2012 02:05PM

quote Curmudgeon: "I leave for Colorado on Saturday for a hiking/camping trip. I really have done very little planning this year, so I'm not sure what we are gonna find.
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Thank You SO MUCH! We all appreciate everything you do! CO is in a bad way and we need all the help we can get. THANKS!

"The Green Hornet has caught more fish than you've lied about Gustafson!" -Walter Matthau

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HenryParsons

06/28/2012 02:11PM

My bad, message was for sotaman, but I hope you have a good trip out here.

"The Green Hornet has caught more fish than you've lied about Gustafson!" -Walter Matthau

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jcavenagh

06/28/2012 03:30PM

I think my buddy's house near Estes Park may have burned down. I haven't heard from him for a while.

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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gsfisher13

06/28/2012 04:05PM

Colorado Springs is a big area for Christian ministries. Navigators is one and they have an update on thier home page http://www.navigators.org/us/. Please remember to keep everyone in your prayers for protection.

Not all those who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien

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gutmon

06/28/2012 04:39PM

My sister and husband live in Ft Collins. They live in town and should be OK, but my sister does lots of hiking and some of her favorite local trails have been destroyed.

"The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so." Mark Twain

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bellolake

06/29/2012 10:42PM

Just had an email from my sister in Colorado Springs. She's okay on the east side of the city, but it sounds pretty grim for a lot of the area.

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OneMatch

06/30/2012 08:43AM

I have friends in both Colorado Springs and Ft Collins. Haven't had a chance to reach them.

We all have to believe in something. I believe I'll go paddle.

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PINETREE

06/30/2012 08:55AM

Just read a old article from way back in 2007 about USFS being downsized in firefighting ability and the intent was let the private sector to it for profit. I wonder how that has hurt the infrastructure and ability to fight these fires.

Sig: All of us our Dreamers. Dreams are what started everything. We our asking ourselves a great question? all of us interested in wilderness preservation are asking...What kind of world do we want.?

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OneMatch

06/30/2012 09:23AM

quote OneMatch: "I have friends in both Colorado Springs and Ft Collins. Haven't had a chance to reach them."

A little update. I just was able to reach my friend in Ft Collins. Thankfully, her and her daughter are well. Heavy smoke, but they are now out of danger. She told me some amazing stories of compassion of people and animals there.

I have not yet found my friend in Colorado Springs. He was a guitar playing partner of mine and joined the Air Force and has been there for many years. I hope he's ok.

This thread got me off my duff to contact my friends. Thank you for that.

We all have to believe in something. I believe I'll go paddle.

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PINETREE

06/30/2012 10:59AM

quote OneMatch: "quote OneMatch: "I have friends in both Colorado Springs and Ft Collins. Haven't had a chance to reach them."

A little update. I just was able to reach my friend in Ft Collins. Thankfully, her and her daughter are well. Heavy smoke, but they are now out of danger. She told me some amazing stories of compassion of people and animals there.

I have not yet found my friend in Colorado Springs. He was a guitar playing partner of mine and joined the Air Force and has been there for many years. I hope he's ok.

This thread got me off my duff to contact my friends. Thank you for that."

At times like these you see many people pull together to help each other and forget differences.
They have a long haul to go and when a lot of people get to go home there home will be gone,lot of sadness ahead.
There always will be chaos in situations like this,but it seems overall organization in trying to deal with it is pretty good. The bottom line the fires will finally go out when mother nature decides it is time.

Sig: All of us our Dreamers. Dreams are what started everything. We our asking ourselves a great question? all of us interested in wilderness preservation are asking...What kind of world do we want.?

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