1: Public swimming pools open on Groundhog Day, don’t close until Thanksgiving.
2: No more of those pesky polar bear attacks … EVER AGAIN.
3: You won’t have to drive to the beach. The beach comes to YOU!
4: Business will be positively BOOMING at the Great Lakes alligator farms.
5: No more movies about cutesy penguins.
6: Fewer people freezing to death. Heatstroke is a much cozier way to go.
7: Forget mowing the lawn anymore. Just let it die, then paint it green.
8: “February showers bring March flowers!”
9: Those garishly-colored coral reefs will soon be a tasteful off-white.
10: A new, FUN contest to rename Glacier National Park!
11: Office dress codes revised to allow for “Clothing-Optional Friday.”
12: People less worried about going to Hell.
13: Now maybe animals will abandon the cruel practice of wearing fur.

That's the only one that could be fun

and the owner who is ill was trying to figure out where they went. Does anyone here know?

It is burning here too.

Look at your link, read the comments below, the Colorado info is either a scam or a mistake. Or it fooled more folks than me.

thanks.

a couple of weeks ago, and and the Russians are predicting a bad summer fire season.

No reason to expect next year will be much different, is there?

people are morons.

And they asked him if he'd rebuild and he said "Absolutely! There are wonderful hiking trails in the region."

To which I yelled at the radio "Wonderful hiking trails through what?!?! Burnt-out stumplands?!?! There's nothing left to hike through, you dumb SOB!"

It's gonna take a while for the New Normal to sink in with most people, I think.

At first they were really happy that their house had made it through, but they said it was like living in a graveyard surrounded by the foundations of houses that had burned.

I moved out of Oakland a month before the fire. I've been super careful about where I live since then, and the only place I've lived that was "in the woods" was two blocks from a major highway so that I could walk out easily if there was a fire.

People just don't know.

Apparently at least the first row of houses up in Mountain Shadows was burned out, so in theory if those home owners want to just cash out, they will have basically just moved the forest in by a block or so. So there aren't that many "lone houses."

I think they'll rebuild though, there's a lot of outpouring of support for those people, with construction companies offering discounts. I might even wind up there cleaning out debris if the people I work with get a contract.

But part of me says I don't work for free (the neighborhood that burned is where a bunch of quarter million dollar houses were burned).

...in the country. Or some of the best, anyway. And it used to be, until summers here started hitting 100 degrees for weeks on end.

It really is going to be a burnt out wasteland, but since tourism is a major major industry here they will likely plant new trees. It'll just take a decade or more for it to even start feeling like nature again.

Thanks for showing me that.

or just the Colorado Springs area?

I know people who live in other areas and they don't seem concerned. I would be.

But the weather here has been dry and hot so there's no telling if the rest of the state is going to burn. Waldo Canyon is contained at the south side so the whole Old Coach area is OK (my images). Still, the hiking areas were best around Rampart Range / Garden of the Gods. Not many hiking paths around Old Coach.

Do people have their heads in the sand? I know someone who wants to buy and retire there and it just seems like a bad idea if there are huge fires every year.