I spoke with a young woman yesterday who lives and works in Colorado. At no prompting by me she started to talk about the trauma in her daily life. She stated her household was evacuated last week due to wildfires. There have been 18 wildfires in the region of her home so far this year.
She stated the heat has been so bad she unwittingly became dehydrated and was rushed to the Emergency Room where she received two liters of IV fluid to save her life.
This was not an elderly person or a child. She was a young, twenty something, working a job and taking care of a household. It is time long overdue for legislators across this country to address the drastic reality of the Climate Crisis INDUCED by anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
While firefighters were buried in Arizona, the American public is fighting a very different battle everyday to maintain their well being and their sanity.
July 7, 2013
By Tom McGhee
Firefighters battling the West Fork Complex fire (click here) got some help from Mother Nature overnight when rain dampened flames that have been scorching isolated, rugged terrain in the San Juan and Rio Grande national forests.
"Things have cooled down," said Norm Rooker, spokesman for the Type 1 Incident Management Team. Three fires — West Fork, Papoose and Windy Pass — make up the complex.
The 110,028 acre fire remains at 25 percent containment.
So far the blaze has destroyed only one structure, a pump house.
Fire fighters are working in rough terrain where tinder-dry, spruce trees that have been ravaged by beetles are tearing loose from the ground and collapsing. "We call them snags. They are crashing left, right and center," Rooker said....
Oops, the forest lost it's green tops and the roots aren't living anymore.
Expansion of human development (click here) into forested areas has created a
situation where wildfires can adversely affect lives and property, as
can the flooding and landslides that occur in the aftermath of the
fires.
Housing in "Dry Season Only" otherwise it is the homeless shelter post tragedy until it is safe to return to the mortgaged abode.
The politicians were all warned. Any environmental or conservation group would have come forward to warn everyone of the tragedies to follow. I know for a fact the community always goes through the exercise, but, the builders lobbies have a slam dunk at the price of the public's well being.
Homebuilder Associations along with the petroleum industry cost the USA more impact to it's local, state and federal treasuries than any other industries in the country. These industries carry out their profits at the cost of taxpayer dollars.
MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. — A thunderstorm (click here) has sent rocks, mud, debris and running water rushing down part of U.S. 24 in a canyon in Manitou Springs, leaving some vehicles covered or stuck in mud.
The rockslide closed a four-mile stretch of U.S. 24 Wednesday afternoon. El Paso County sheriff's officials said there was no immediate report of injuries.
The American Red Cross opened a shelter for people seeking higher ground.
The National Weather Service had issued flash flood warnings Wednesday afternoon for areas scarred by the Waldo Canyon Fire last year and the Black Forest Fire this year, since soil and vegetation that normally would absorb rainfall there has been burned away....
She stated the heat has been so bad she unwittingly became dehydrated and was rushed to the Emergency Room where she received two liters of IV fluid to save her life.
This was not an elderly person or a child. She was a young, twenty something, working a job and taking care of a household. It is time long overdue for legislators across this country to address the drastic reality of the Climate Crisis INDUCED by anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
While firefighters were buried in Arizona, the American public is fighting a very different battle everyday to maintain their well being and their sanity.
July 7, 2013
By Tom McGhee
Firefighters battling the West Fork Complex fire (click here) got some help from Mother Nature overnight when rain dampened flames that have been scorching isolated, rugged terrain in the San Juan and Rio Grande national forests.
"Things have cooled down," said Norm Rooker, spokesman for the Type 1 Incident Management Team. Three fires — West Fork, Papoose and Windy Pass — make up the complex.
The 110,028 acre fire remains at 25 percent containment.
So far the blaze has destroyed only one structure, a pump house.
Fire fighters are working in rough terrain where tinder-dry, spruce trees that have been ravaged by beetles are tearing loose from the ground and collapsing. "We call them snags. They are crashing left, right and center," Rooker said....
Oops, the forest lost it's green tops and the roots aren't living anymore.
Expansion of human development (click here) into forested areas has created a
situation where wildfires can adversely affect lives and property, as
can the flooding and landslides that occur in the aftermath of the
fires.Housing in "Dry Season Only" otherwise it is the homeless shelter post tragedy until it is safe to return to the mortgaged abode.
The politicians were all warned. Any environmental or conservation group would have come forward to warn everyone of the tragedies to follow. I know for a fact the community always goes through the exercise, but, the builders lobbies have a slam dunk at the price of the public's well being.
Homebuilder Associations along with the petroleum industry cost the USA more impact to it's local, state and federal treasuries than any other industries in the country. These industries carry out their profits at the cost of taxpayer dollars.
MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. — A thunderstorm (click here) has sent rocks, mud, debris and running water rushing down part of U.S. 24 in a canyon in Manitou Springs, leaving some vehicles covered or stuck in mud.
The rockslide closed a four-mile stretch of U.S. 24 Wednesday afternoon. El Paso County sheriff's officials said there was no immediate report of injuries.
The American Red Cross opened a shelter for people seeking higher ground.
The National Weather Service had issued flash flood warnings Wednesday afternoon for areas scarred by the Waldo Canyon Fire last year and the Black Forest Fire this year, since soil and vegetation that normally would absorb rainfall there has been burned away....
