Amen to that although I did live in the good old days and remember when we upgraded to a coal stove. One of my jobs was to go out to the coal pile in our back yard and fill the bucket to sit by the stove. I have no fondness of much in the good ole days and love my AC.
We are in good shape here though compared to the folks out west; thoughts are with them.
Thanks for the reach-out and thoughts, Triple R and others.
The High Park fire within a few miles of our home is about 85% contained, and is "yesterday's news" as far as most of the country is concerned. For those affected by it (over 250 homes burned and over 125 square miles!), it's good to send out some prayers. Thankfully, we had a couple cloudbursts in the past few days that allowed them to get on top of this fire. However, those same storms put some lightning over by Boulder, and started a fire there right near the city... they got on top of that one quickly.
"Today's news" is the Waldo Fire, down near Colorado Springs. While a lot smaller in total area than the High Park fire, it went right through some neighborhoods on the edge of the city (the woodland/urban edge). Over 350 homes. President Obama will be there today. I was impressed to hear that they called ahead, to make sure their arrival would not disrupt the fire efforts (i.e. for police escort, etc.) Our governor assured him it was welcome. Also welcome are the Federal disaster dollars to help this. For us here in Colorado, this is the type of natural disaster we get (sometimes not naturally caused, but most of the recent ones have been lightning); in the southeast, it's hurricanes, in midwest, tornadoes, some places it's floods (flash floods here too). For us, it's wildfires. Temps have been hovering around 100 F for several weeks, with humidity dropping to the single digits at the height of each day.
Thanks to all for prayers and support.
-Mitch
