This is an image from the Northwest Side of Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs sits geographically a lot like Eagle, Colorado with large mountains to the west that generate their own weather patterns which include wind and lightening. It is also where we play on public lands. Below these mountains lie the Eagle Ranch Development and the town of Eagle. The houses were built extremely close in parts of Eagle Ranch due to developers greed. The difference between Eagle and Colorado springs is that it is SURROUNDED by mountains and hills that are currently covered with bone dry forest and beetle kill. It takes one dirt bike spark, one 4x4 spark, one lit cigarette butt, one careless fire spark to start a fire tat could turn into what this picture below looks like. Just one silver dollar sized ember, which can literally blow for miles, can cause a scene like this, and the wind has been blowing, and refuses to stop this summer, and it is very hot, and only fools think this can not happen in my back yard, because it can. Colorado is burning up, and the reports on Facebook from friends are both disturbing and frightening and I hope they all stay safe and can rebuild. This is the real deal, and myself and the rest of the people who live in places where this year the potential to burn is so high should be prepared, for whatever happens. These images are heart breaking. We all have friends that live in the affected places, and they are going to need some help.
And for those of you who think this is all bullshit and that this is a normal weather cycle and that we are not seeing the effects of Global Warming, you may want to think again....
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