Damn. Stay safe.
I'm assuming the preemptive power outage is "lessons learned" from the Marshall Fire?
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90mph wind gusts, preemptive power outage planned for 8 hours, schools closed.
in 2021, this same thing happened about the same time of year, and the Marshall Fire started just a couple miles north of us. I could see the fire around the corner from my house.
https://co.my.xcelenergy.com/s/outage-safety/wildfires/power-shutoffs/event-update
Yes, exactly. Downed power lines were one of the culprits that was determined to have started the Marshall fire.
That's good they're taking preventative measures at least. Read the wikipedia page for it and was hoping that was the case.
Yeah, they learned they have to pay over half a billion dollars when their equipment starts fires that kill people.
The wind itself is only part of the problem here. It's been extremely dry here (it's also been in the 60s every day, when normal is 30s-40s right about now). The Colorado snowpack is WAY below normal, so everything is dormant for winter but VERY dry. That was the problem with the Marshall Fire. Super super dry everything, one single spark, lots of winds, and 1000 houses burned down. That's the worry.
We have similar worries here in northern Ontario. The forests here basically lie in or are surrounded by wet swamps. But all that water is dependent on what happens in the winter and the snow. If we don't get enough snow during the winter, there won't be enough run off all spring and into the summer to keep the swamps wet .... if the swamps aren't wet enough, it dries out the forest ... dry forest equals forest fires.
The same thing happens with the type of winter ... we could have lots of snow but warm periods in the winter time that melts things and keeps the snow pack down ... or spring arrives too early and too hot, melts everything too fast and leaves the forests dry by summer time.
We always have water up here but it only takes a small dip in snow accumulation and spring run off to dry out the forest sufficiently and create the conditions for forest fires. We approached those levels for the past few summers and squeezed by without major fires but every year that tipping point gets closer and closer.
Short answer is ... as global warming keeps changing weather patterns ... even though we still get freezing cold winters up here ... every year, we're in high danger of massive forest fires that will probably happen here in the coming decades. Once our forests dry out, we're going to produce some of worst smoke events similar to what happened in 2023 and probably worse.
Take a nice deep breathe of fresh country air ... and do it as often as you can ... we might not have that luxury in the coming decades. :(
I’m in the foothills myself and hoping we don’t have any fire today because if we do it’s gonna be really fuckin bad. Like “no chance to even start putting it out until tomorrow” bad.
Stay safe. It's dry out there.