No Humor Today, Only Fire
June 14th, 2013 at 6:53:47 AM
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I live in Monument, Colorado, five miles north of Colorado Springs and 10 miles northwest of Black Forest. I took this photo of the growing Black Forest fire a couple days ago on my way home from work:
http://gwiggy3.home.comcast.net/~gwiggy3/BlackForestFire.JPG
Over 30,000 people have evacuated the 55-square-mile affected area around the fire. Our house is not in the mandatory evacuation zone, but it may be soon. Don’t worry about us. We have the important things packed and ready to go, including Newman and his dog bowl. In a wonderfully sweet gesture, Lori packed my collection of 500+ casino chips!
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Glen Wiggy
Author, "1536 Free Waters and Other Blackjack Endeavors--Finding Profit and Humor in Card-Counting"
http://gwiggy3.home.comcast.net/~gwiggy3/BlackForestFire.JPG
Over 30,000 people have evacuated the 55-square-mile affected area around the fire. Our house is not in the mandatory evacuation zone, but it may be soon. Don’t worry about us. We have the important things packed and ready to go, including Newman and his dog bowl. In a wonderfully sweet gesture, Lori packed my collection of 500+ casino chips!
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Glen Wiggy
Author, "1536 Free Waters and Other Blackjack Endeavors--Finding Profit and Humor in Card-Counting"
June 14th, 2013 at 6:58:30 AM
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I think it's a good thing my wife and I visited Colorado Springs, Cripple Creek, and Pike's Peak two and a half weeks ago and not now. Best of luck to you.
June 14th, 2013 at 8:21:23 AM
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Good luck.
New South Wales and Tasmania recently underwent such intense and fast moving brush fires that even those able to shelter in bays or ponds found the fire consumed the oxygen and there was insufficient air pressure to breathe. We have altered our forests with too much management and our witness trees show tremendous changes from what nature intended. As we press further and further into undeveloped areas, fire still remains a natural process and resources can not be devoted to saving man made structures.
New South Wales and Tasmania recently underwent such intense and fast moving brush fires that even those able to shelter in bays or ponds found the fire consumed the oxygen and there was insufficient air pressure to breathe. We have altered our forests with too much management and our witness trees show tremendous changes from what nature intended. As we press further and further into undeveloped areas, fire still remains a natural process and resources can not be devoted to saving man made structures.
