Kansas Crimson

Big, big update:

Precipitation!

Still didn’t get cold yet so it’s mostly rain, but I think I saw a wintry mix snowflake in there too

This vid might be the best yet at capturing just how apocalyptic shit looked:

How much you selling that bucked wood for TDub?

I saw on the news a lot of Colorado was expecting snow.
Let it snow as they say.

Yeah, dumped hard here yesterday afternoon.

Still lightly falling on and off this morning. It’s also calm and freezing cold, rather than still dry and windy. Pre-evacuation orders lifted, back to work in Granby, yaaay!

Cuz I can’t tell you how heartbroken I would have been to have work burn down. That’s every Merican’s worst nightmare...

Also TIL “1000 hour fuels”

So while a snowstorm can stop the growth of a wildfire, it doesn’t necessarily put it out.

Wildfire fuel is rated by hour many hours it would take to extinguish. Small sticks and grass and stuff can only stay hot for a few minutes if covered in snow, whereas bigger logs can be 100 or even 1000 hour fuels, depending on how big and how dry and how hot and stuff.

Hopefully it doesn’t get dry and windy again up here, and just keeps snowing for like 1000 hours.

pdub wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 11:48 am How much you selling that bucked wood for TDub?

I dont sell it, i burn about 6 cord a year, its my only heat source until i replace my furnace. I did find a sweet little honey hole this year tho. If i had more time id sell it, its goin for about 225 a cord here for tamarack or red fir. Also found a bunch or hop hornbeam (ironwood) great burning stuff and rare here.

Right on.

What’s beetlekill lodgepole pine go for?

There’s an abundance in this area, and a big reason why the wildfire blew up as quick as it did

Not sposed to cut lodgepole here. But its the only pine worth burning.

Estimated 250 homes lost to the fire.

At work at least, we’re getting calls from both displaced locals who are looking for lodging just to have somewhere to live for the time being, and second homeowners who are booking up places just cuz their insurance will pay for it.

I’ll let you guess which of the two is more insistently desperate about it.

it was either here, or the worst people in the world thread...

https://www.skyhinews.com/news/more-ars ... ing-slash/

RMNP remains closed.

East Troublesome burned over 29,000 park acres so far, the most in the history of the park

Now up to 500 estimated structures lost to the East Troublesome Fire, with the damage assessment ongoing.

All things considered - how big it got, how quickly it spread, through national forests during hunting season and through a busy resort community and a national park - we’re so fortunate there weren’t far more casualties than reported thus far.

Man, so just saw one of those big flatbed trucks that transports cars.

It was loaded with cars, but instead of shiny new cars, they were charred skeletons of cars.

that’s funny

glad those michiganders didn’t succeed in their kidnapping plot

https://nwf.org/Latest-News/Press-Relea ... -Shut-Down

The wildfires are going to impact the timber industry and lumber industry accordingly. Unseen impacts beyond the devastation to the natural world