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Grex Agora41 Item 258: BURN, DENVER, BURN!
Entered by polytarp on Wed Jun 12 23:25:40 UTC 2002:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2040000/2040173.stm

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#1 of 15 by polytarp on Wed Jun 12 23:30:57 2002:

(Note, I don't really want it to burn, just that something similar was in some
song.)

#2 of 15 by polytarp on Wed Jun 12 23:46:12 2002:

(So, it's only appropriate.)

#3 of 15 by krj on Thu Jun 13 03:58:00 2002:

My wife Leslie will be driving past Denver tomorrow, and she'll probably
be able to see the fires near Glenwood Springs.  Denver Post probably
has more coverage than the BBC.

#4 of 15 by polytarp on Thu Jun 13 11:04:13 2002:

Yeah,       but I was in a hurry                 and heard about it on the
BBC.

#5 of 15 by mrmat on Thu Jun 13 13:36:35 2002:

Gives new meaning to the song, "Get Out of Denver".

#6 of 15 by slynne on Thu Jun 13 14:11:27 2002:

I am kind of worried about furs's house. She lives near where the fires 
are (I think).

#7 of 15 by micklpkl on Thu Jun 13 14:16:05 2002:

There were some spectacular visible satellite images on last night's 
local news, showing the plume of smoke extending over the Denver metro, 
and across the Eastern third of Colorado. Another thing that was rather 
visible was the lack of snowpack in the high country.

#8 of 15 by polytarp on Thu Jun 13 15:21:14 2002:

DON"T   POUR GASOLINE DOWN YOU PANTsez.

#9 of 15 by void on Thu Jun 13 16:46:53 2002:

   re #6: Yeah, my sister and her family live near Denver, too.

#10 of 15 by scg on Thu Jun 13 17:40:01 2002:

I saw what the pilot said was Denver from the air yesterday (we were North
of it, so it was off in the distance).  I was trying to see the fire, but
couldn't figure out if I was seeing it or not.  I could see a faint glow South
of Denver, but that looked more like run of the mill light polution.  I was
alseeing occasional bright flashes somewhere in the viscinity that I suppose
could have been flareups, but which looked more like lightening.  So, I don't
think I saw the fire.

#11 of 15 by slynne on Thu Jun 13 17:57:10 2002:

You might have seen one of the small storms that the fire is producing. 
That's right, the fire is so big, it is making its own weather.

#12 of 15 by krj on Thu Jun 13 22:57:53 2002:

Leslie called early this afternoon as she was approaching Denver.
She reports that the expected view of the mountains was blocked 
by the haze from the fire.

#13 of 15 by mcnally on Fri Jun 14 20:30:11 2002:

  I was in Colorado a few weeks ago for a visit to Mesa Verde (which is
  most of the way across the state from Denver, down in the southwest
  corner of the state..)  The night before I arrived at Mesa Verde there
  was a thunderstorm in the area and by late afternoon of my first day in
  the area you could see plumes of smoke rising from some of the nearby
  hills where there'd been lightning strikes the day before.  The next day
  you could still see the plumes of smoke, grown much larger, and now with
  small planes circling them, presumably dumping chemicals or water to
  try to extinguish the fires..  As someone who didn't have much at risk
  from the fires, I found it fascinating..

#14 of 15 by katie on Sun Jun 16 20:48:17 2002:

My dad and sister live in Littleton.

#15 of 15 by gull on Tue Jun 18 13:50:48 2002:

I was in Rocky Mountain National Park last week.  There were several days
when there was noticable haze from the fires.  I also noticed the lack of
snow; while I hadn't been there before, I gathered from older photos and
other people's comments that there was normally a lot more than I was
seeing.

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