Well, it looks like they were giving people notice of being evacuated. Areas surrounding Sedalia are being evacuated in the next 24-48 hours, depending on the course the fire takes.
Jin - thank you for your concern. I am in the middle of Lakewood, pretty far into town, just about parallel to Morrison and Red Rocks. So, I am certainly safe right now. We have already talked about packing the important stuff into the cars so all we would have to grab are the kitties and us. I doubt/hope it won't come to that, because if they have to evacuate us about 1/4 of the Metro area could be gone. My biggest concern is that we are only about 1-2 miles from the foothills themselves. And the way this thing is growing...it's at almost 76,000 acres, so that is almost 15,000 acres in about 5 hours.
The feds are taking over the Hayman fire. They said they just can't get in front of it because of the intense smoke and speed of the fire. Last I heard it was moving at about 3-5 MPH.
This is a satellite view of Colorado. The Coal Seam fire that is close to Jin is just to the upper left of the word Colorado (indicated by the yellow dot and red scratches). The Hayman fire is the big one right in the center on the right of the mountains. Denver is obscured by the smoke. There's one more big fire down in the south by Durango, and a few more smaller fires. BTW, for the most part we have been sunny. About 90% of that isn't clouds, it's smoke.
Jin - thank you for your concern. I am in the middle of Lakewood, pretty far into town, just about parallel to Morrison and Red Rocks. So, I am certainly safe right now. We have already talked about packing the important stuff into the cars so all we would have to grab are the kitties and us. I doubt/hope it won't come to that, because if they have to evacuate us about 1/4 of the Metro area could be gone. My biggest concern is that we are only about 1-2 miles from the foothills themselves. And the way this thing is growing...it's at almost 76,000 acres, so that is almost 15,000 acres in about 5 hours.
The feds are taking over the Hayman fire. They said they just can't get in front of it because of the intense smoke and speed of the fire. Last I heard it was moving at about 3-5 MPH.
This is a satellite view of Colorado. The Coal Seam fire that is close to Jin is just to the upper left of the word Colorado (indicated by the yellow dot and red scratches). The Hayman fire is the big one right in the center on the right of the mountains. Denver is obscured by the smoke. There's one more big fire down in the south by Durango, and a few more smaller fires. BTW, for the most part we have been sunny. About 90% of that isn't clouds, it's smoke.