Please pray for the people in CO

Easy G (G²);60869039 said:

Wow...

Wondering how many other animals perished or survived...

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Yes, I asked that on the news channel's FB page yesterday. Don't know if that was answered. I was concerned about the animals in the mountains, especially on Tuesday when the fire jumped from the canyon into the housing areas, with 65 mph winds. Practically zero time to move then.

Here's updates I got this morning from news conference:

Got info on another news channel. Containment up to 30%. Today's weather will not be as good as the past couple days, because very hot and windy for this afternoon, but this is a good test for the containment, the forest ranger gal said. Should be able to get some more containment today.

Well, I hope so!

Investigation ongoing on who started this horrible fire. A video put out I think on Wednesday by some folks who were on the mtns Saturday afternoon when the fire started, showed the spot where the fire started. The forest rangers (whatever the word is for them) and firefighters haven't been able to get over there yet because busy with fires, but they are hoping to have "boots on the ground" maybe today or very soon.

Last night, lots of housing areas reopened for folks to go back home then.

Closure order for Pikes Peak National Forest.

The fire perimeter is closed off in the National Forest, not the whole area.

‎1300 firefighters fighting the fires. Going to be doing a 50-acre burn to help with containment in Blodget Peak area, so if we see smoke, that's them working.

Some CO National Guard are coming down from Buckley AB in Aurora to help patrol the areas because some looting started a couple days ago, and arrests were made. So, getting more backup with that.

Second body found in a house. That makes the deaths at 2 now.

rainbowbright said:

me too, this is a great town for that, so you should come visit it sometime, I'm just lazy and hate the sun otherwise I would be hiking all the time

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You hate the sun?! Now come on. Sunny days make people happy. And in CO, you get more than 300 a year of sunny days.

Colleen1 said:

Oh wow, that's cool. lol ...or should I say 'hot'.

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Naw. Triple digits are not normal in CO, but temps in the 90s in the summer are a regular occurrence.

Eastern Drifter said:

Beats the hell out of Kansas. I really dislike my state. What an insipid borefest.

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My dad grew up in Wichita, and my grandmother lived there (with grandfather) for over 60 years. Yeah, not the greatest in scenery, and the tornadoes are pretty big and terrible in that state.

Colleen1 said:

Oh la la! ...baking in the sun.

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I wouldn't change it for the world. CO rocks. In fact, hubby did a 11-month tour in S. Korea so that we could move here. Although, WA state is beautiful, too. I really liked Washington, and the drive down through ID and MT was gorgeous.

Protoevangel said:

I am a cool weather person myself. I start getting uncomfortable around 80f. 85-90 in very dry climates, but it's semi-humid in my area. I'd much rather not have to feel sweaty.

Clear, sunny, and in the 60s is paradise to me.

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Your taste in climate is very close to what my dad's was. He thought the 60s was perfect. He liked Alaska weather. My mom likes, humid, warm weather (being from Greece, I guess that's normal), near the coast.

I like dry climates like you and prefer the mountains. I don't care for humidity. I grew up in many places, and all of them were hot and humid, except for ME...I was born there but only there a couple years. Very snowy there. I like snow, but unfortunately, we hardly get any here. When I lived in the Denver area back in the early 1990s, we could always count on at least one blizzard a winter season, and good snowfall of at least 6 inches each snowfall. But since we've moved here near the Springs, the most we get through the whole winter season is about 5-6 inches. Ugh. It was quite a disappointment to my hubby and I. But we still love it here, especially the summers. Dry, hot, breezy, and you can't beat the scenery. Waking up and seeing Pikes Peak and the mountain range even from our town - Fountain, which on the SE outskirts of CO Spgs. The blue skies, the 300+ sunny days per year is why there are so many outside activities and why this is one of the top states of healthy people because of that.

Perfect temps to me are 75-80 degrees. Here, 50 degrees is pretty warm because of the sun. This state is the closest to the sun because of the elevation. And the winters are not bitter cold. They are usually between 20-40 degrees in the winters.

rainbowbright said:

Yeah, I don't like the sun, but I also have to be careful because skin cancer runs rampant in my family. I much prefer winter, but it kind of skipped us the last couple of years--I really want my snow. I have a love/hate relationship with Colorado. I've been here since I was six because my Dad was stationed at Petersen Air Force base and we livd here for seven years, then we moved to Virginia for two and a half years, but I hated it because I missed my mountains. We came back here and I've been here ever since. My husband wants to move to Florida next Summer and I was all for it, because I want to leave here, but after all this happened, my attachment has come back and I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to move back over to the West side (not mountain shadows because we can't afford it, but there's another area close by where we lived that is cheap and still right up against the foot hills---yeah I know I'm crazy)

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well, yeah, you've gotta wear sun block here for sure. This state is only second in the US for skin cancer. Arizona is first.

Florida....ugh..... I tolerated it there for the 3 years hubby was stationed there. Too many HUGE BUGS...so many different types of ROACHES...really have a phobia of those. Too humid and hot. Doesn't have 4 seasons. I don't like a place that has the same temperature or weather year round. Florida beaches were nice. Like the cool/warm water. Not like the freezing water up the Eastern Coast. But for me. Florida is a place to visit for a week. Best places we were near that were great beach areas were Destin and Ft. Walton Beach. Altho we lived around Panama City, we didn't set foot on the beaches. Always a bunch of wild college kids there and too crowded. Mexico beach we went to several times which is south of Panama City beach. That was pretty nice.