East Troublesome

"benjrblant" (benjblant) 10/22/2020 at 13:41 • Filed to: None

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This fire started yesterday or the day before and has grown to be 125k acres in just a little more than one day. I’m still trying to wrap my brain around 100,000 acres of land burning in just 24 hours.

This was the view from Denver last night:

East Troublesome fire, which, mind you happened in under two days:

Statewide fire map:

3 of our 4 largest recorded fires have happened this year:

It’s supposed to be snowing in the mountains right now. This sucks.

ibRAD > benjrblant 10/22/2020 at 13:52

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Holy crap. Stay safe!

Grindintosecond > benjrblant 10/22/2020 at 13:59

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I’m 15 mi. east of the callwood, that was an impressive plume ysterday afternoon!

flatisflat > benjrblant 10/22/2020 at 14:07

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That doesn’t even look real...

VincentMalamute-Kim > benjrblant 10/22/2020 at 14:22

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SW winds have Loveland directly under that ash cloud. A mazing amount of ash all over this morning . I’d thought it was the Cameron Peak fire which is what I’d been paying attention to since it’s way too close to me.

HoustonRunner > benjrblant 10/22/2020 at 14:23

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Any forecasted precipitation to help out?

VincentMalamute-Kim > Grindintosecond 10/22/2020 at 14:24

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Yike. I’m about 10 miles SE of the Cameron Peak fire. Evac orders got as close to 3 miles from me.  Hopefully the snow will this weekend will help all of these.

DipodomysDeserti > benjrblant 10/22/2020 at 14:37

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My SIL just sent me photos of that fire. She’s currently on the fire line.

shop-teacher > benjrblant 10/22/2020 at 14:40

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Holy crap!

Nothing > benjrblant 10/22/2020 at 15:24

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I snagged a pic last night of the same plume.

benjrblant > Grindintosecond 10/22/2020 at 15:29

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stay safe!

benjrblant > HoustonRunner 10/22/2020 at 15:30

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some snow in the forecast for this coming sun/mon. it’s been a solid 4-6ish weeks without any measurable precipitation here.

HammerheadFistpunch > benjrblant 10/22/2020 at 16:44

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I hear that.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > benjrblant 10/22/2020 at 16:59

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I’m getting last summer vibes about that image. It’s not nice is it?

Fortunately , this year, we are going into summer with the drought largely broken and a La Nina declaration...in fact, we may get another inch or two of rain in the next couple of days.

SmugAardvark > benjrblant 10/22/2020 at 18:14

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It looks like it’s headed straight for Estes Park. :(