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Overlander wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 4:42 pm
KUTradition wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 2:09 pm Park fire now 4th largest in Cali history…just under 400K acres burned, and only 1/4 contained

some 200 fires currently burning across the pacific coast states
I haven't been able to see Mt Hood for over a week now.
it wasn’t that long ago (a few years) that we were considering relocating to PNW. i even applied to a few federal jobs in the region

kinda glad that didn’t happen
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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I wouldnt want to live anywhere else.
"The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn’t gold.” Tolstoy
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“The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.”
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Anyone that’s ever driven up US34 to Estes Park from Loveland…..this is a couple miles up canyon.

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Wildfires are scary and a bummer and all but that shits metal as fock
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Back2Lawrence wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 5:33 pm Anyone that’s ever driven up US34 to Estes Park from Loveland…..this is a couple miles up canyon.

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Someone's been drinking...
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ousdahl wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:53 pm Hi, I’m Oussie and my photo editing skills are worse than my opinions on the poli-bored.


Dude…if you gonna claim metal AF, make it so.


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For real tho that’s a badass photoshop b2l
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When I was a kid, we were heading from KC to RMNP and heard on the ole CB radio that the Big Thompson had flooded big time. Re-routed to Ouray.
This sucks just as bad
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jhawks99 wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:22 pm When I was a kid, we were heading from KC to RMNP and heard on the ole CB radio that the Big Thompson had flooded big time. Re-routed to Ouray.
This sucks just as bad
My FIL has lived in Loveland for a long time. He still talks about that flood (‘76).

The flood in 2013 was pretty wild, too. Several of the stores along the river just washed away as the route straightened behind the force of the historical level waters.

There was a good sized store, ‘Indian Village’, on one particular corner, that was noticeably gone after the fact. The road up to Drake and on up to Estes took about 5 years to completely fix. Driving it 2 years later during construction was like being on another planet with all the boulders displaced and dropped wherever gravity found it fit.
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I couldn’t get to Denver for work. 285 in Greeley was shut down from the South Platte. I25 a mess just South of Johnstown where Big Thompson crosses at bottom of hill, and further west…no chance.
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I remember that 2013 flood. They were evacuating folks thru the park and into/thru Grand Co. My buddy set up a grill and served hot dogs along the side of the road to evacuees.
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