Massive Grassfire Destroys Hundreds of Suburban Homes Outside Denver

Guy Incognito said:
A woman I went to HS with was impacted by this. She's in London right now, all the shit at her house is gone, lost one of her two cats. Apparently a friend of hers was able to get the one cat, but couldn't get the photography stuff and printing stuff that she uses for her freelance photography gig.
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That's so sad to hear...
 
CorpRebel said:
I remember those "Santa Ana Winds" when I lived there 1966-1989 in Orange County. They were the driest winds I've experienced. My Mom lived and had her horses out in Hemet and Temecula, CA. and those winds blew right thru and there always were some fires in the distance. Had her Dodge Ram 4x4 and her two horse trailer "at the ready" during the fire season.

I know it's worse nowadays, but it seemed like there were the super dry (drought) years and then it became wet (rainy) for a few years. Alternating back & forth. Droughts or floods... :twitch:
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We lived in Yorba Linda, which is built onto one side of Santa Ana canyon. Those winds every year were something else.
 
Incredible that nobody was/has been killed.
 
Damn. Did Denver buy a bunch of eucalyptus trees from the Aussies too?
 
Have relatives up in Loveland and haven't heard from them this AM. Niece and her husband might be very busy as they have an insurance agency.
 
I’ve got a coworker in Eldora. Looks like she is west of the carnage, but haven’t heard any update.
 
I am surprised in late December it is dry enough for these fires to spread so fast? I figured it would be snowing or at least wet from recent snowfall/melt. I guess I have a different idea of what weather in Denver and Colorado is like.
 
OregonDucks said:
I am surprised in late December it is dry enough for these fires to spread so fast? I figured it would be snowing or at least wet from recent snowfall/melt. I guess I have a different idea of what weather in Denver and Colorado is like.
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This isn’t typical weather for us. As i said earlier, we’ve only had 1.5” of rain since June and today is the first snow of the season. La Niña years are super dry for the Colorado Rockies, but yesterday’s 100mph wind gusts were the real driver for this. Nothing could be done to fight the fires in that wind.

Latest estimate is 1000 homes lost and over 6000 (largely suburban) acres burned.
 
Wingsauce7 said:
This isn’t typical weather for us. As i said earlier, we’ve only had 1.5” of rain since June and today is the first snow of the season. La Niña years are super dry for the Colorado Rockies, but yesterday’s 100mph wind gusts were the real driver for this. Nothing could be done to fight the fires in that wind.

Latest estimate is 1000 homes lost and over 6000 (largely suburban) acres burned.
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Yeah two summers ago majority of our Summer wildfires were started and became severe due to strong winds. Add in the dryness and it was bad.
 
As of now, there are 15,000 homes in the affected area that have no gas or electricity. With temps expected to be in the single digits the next few nights, Xcel Energy is trying to restore service. Not sure how gas gets restored when there are so many destroyed homes that are either still smoldering or have unsecured gas lines.

Would suck to have your home survive the fires only to have all the pipes freeze due to no heat…
 
williewilliejuan said:
When people talk about natural disasters in California, they always talk about earthquakes. In the 48 years I lived there, I never worried about earthquakes. Over the last ten years there, I worried about fires every year.
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This sums it up nicely.
 
#Tragic
 
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