Heat and fire

[vibratoking]

Colorado Springs is in the middle of a nasty hot spell coupled with a rather large wildfire that is threatening homes, causing evacuations, filling the air with smoke, etc... Temps are high 90s into triple digits and the winds are getting to 30mph during the day - creating ideal conditions to spread the fire. Friends and families are evacuating. Turned our high school into an evacuation center...filled with cots and people waiting to see if their homes will go up in smoke.

Our house has no AC and it has to be closed up to keep the smoke out, but thankfully not threatened by flames. Makes for a miserable existance. I get to come to work where we have AC, but my wife and kids and dogs aren't so lucky. We've been finding places to go to get away from the heat and smoke.

We have a second home that we have opened to some friends that have been evacuated with no place to go except the shelter. There is a suspected arsonist on the loose that is driving around starting new fires, while opportunistic assholes are robbing evacuated houses and breaking into the vehicles of evacuees and taking their belongings. People are fucked up.

[Reeltarded]

Scary.

People suck.

[John_P_WI]

My sisters residence is in the very center of the High Park fire, outside of Ft. Collins that has consumed over 87,000 acres. No clue as to if or when they will be able to return. Talk about a disaster. Over 2000 men trying to protect the surrounding areas and structures in 100 degree heat and red flag warnings. It is unbelievably dry and dangerous out there. Talk about a hot, dirty and fatiguing job for those involved, but a big THANK YOU. This one was started by lightning.

[cbass]

Damn that sucks.hope you guys get some rain soon.

This country needs to pass some harsher laws against stealing.I mean when a person does more time for growing a plant than someone that breaks into your house something is bad wrong.I mean why not loot and steal you probaly won't get caught and if you do the penalty won't be very severe.

[Cliff Schecht]

The AC in my house was just fixed after 4 days of not working. They ended up replacing the entire old system (luckily my landlord isn't cheap when it comes to house repairs). After half a week of sweating my balls off, I'm not sure I can even get myself off my couch for the day with this amazing cold air blowing over me.

[Reeltarded]

WTG Cliff!

Happened here a couple years back. Power down for almost 5 days. Welcome to 1948. Yeesh.

[cbass]

We had folks around without power for around a month in an icestorm a few years ago.We were walking down to the creek and filling up buckets of water to flush the toliet.Fortunately we had wood heat but no fan to circulate it better than nothin though.Kind gives you a real apprciation for electricity

[xtian]

Fire bad. Got relatives in Estes Park, but I think that's far north?

Bad AC story: when we moved in to house, had to have roof replaced. They put up on-strand plywood, which uses urea formaldehyde glue. When the AC kicked on, it was revealed that the old ducts were full of holes, allowing the heated formaldehyde gas to come blowing into the house, giving my canary-in-a-coalmine wife instant headaches and dizziness. So the whole ductwork had to be replaced…but that's not the kicker--the old ducts had nice ASBESTOS tape wrapped around all the junctions. So the whole operation had to be handled like a toxic superfund site cleanup, with clean room, bunny suits, etc.

Hope that gives you Colorado fire refugees a little mirthless chuckle. Keep cool and God bless.

[Structo]

Yeah I saw that wildfire on the news. Bad deal.

I hadn't heard it was arson.

There is one simple solution for looters.

They should be shot on sight and their corpses should be put on public display in the town center.

Man, I hate thieves.

Good luck to our Colorado brothers.

[Colossal]

There is one simple solution for looters.
They should be shot on sight and their corpses should be put on public display in the town center.

I couldn't agree more.

[NickC]

There is one simple solution for looters.
They should be shot on sight and their corpses should be put on public display in the town center.

I couldn't agree more.

I agree with you guys. However, there are two problems with displaying corpses:

(1) Longevity; they won't last long enough to serve as an example to future generations.

(2) Hygiene; they constitute a health menace for spectators and city sanitation workers.


I propose they should be prepared by the careful hand of a taxidermist to preserve the graphic nature of their demise (entrance and exit wounds) and made sanitary for the public.



Aside:
When we lived in New Orleans in the 60's, my Mother (may she rest in peace) took a firearms training and safety course sponsored by the Police Department. She was counseled that if someone is caught breaking in through a door or window, she should shoot to kill. If the body falls inside, call the police. If the body falls outside, first drag it inside, and then call the police. True story.