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The mountains just outside my hometown of Boulder, Colorado are ablaze tonight. 4000 people have been evacuated, over 7000 acres are burning and it's not contained at all. 93 structures have already been lost. Thurs-Sat are expected to be windy days and up there windy means windy -- when I was a kid I used to be afraid of how horrible it must've been in Chicago if they were the ones so windy as to be the windy city while we sit around with our paltry 120mph gusts. Thankfully they expect the gusts later this week to "only" be 60-80mph.
The fire has apparently been raised to a "Tier I" fire, making it a "national priority". I have no idea what that means other than you will probably see something about it on CNN tomorrow.
It hadn't rained for about a month in that area, and the humidity had been sitting around 10%. The area is also affected by pine beetles, so there's a lot of dry, dead timber just ready to spark.
The fire has apparently been raised to a "Tier I" fire, making it a "national priority". I have no idea what that means other than you will probably see something about it on CNN tomorrow.
It hadn't rained for about a month in that area, and the humidity had been sitting around 10%. The area is also affected by pine beetles, so there's a lot of dry, dead timber just ready to spark.