They stayed clear of me, but not my Crypto routers.
The fire started about 200 yards from one of my hosts, winds were knocking him off his feet as he tried to fight the fire with dirt and a shovel as the million dollar homes to the East were all going up.. He is on the west side of the hill and the strong winds kept the fire form getting at him .. that and ground work and he is safe and his house is safe
My Stepdad got the order to evacuate at around 2pm.. The router indicated it was still connected to the network till 5pm - but we didn't know if that meant the fire got the house or if they had just killed the power. We watch the smoke plumes on radar and sat heatmaps and the fire seemed to be narrowly missing his house to the east (winds were primarily to the east, but fires create their own wind) , but winds died down around 5pm ( sunset) and I feared the fire would backtrack.. By 10Pm they had posted a fire perimeter map that placed the home well within the burn area.
https://bouldercounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=13ab214fe2bb4da5a850df0ca0f00fc5See the little lake on South 68th? That is basically his house.
His roof is shake shingle.. if a single ember landed on the roof it would have been frigging gone..
There was a broadcast with that faggot Polis flying over the area and they camera kept panning to him so he should "cry" -- when everyone else wanted to keep looking at the Fing ground.. THey passed right over my stepdad's house. But we saw two of his neighbors still standing in 100% burned fields.. so we were hopeful..
but we also saw houses in the same neighborhood burned to the ground. His brother and daughter hiked in to see what was left.. and because my stepdad is so frigging lucky, a news crew met them and walked in with them - so while 1000s are worried and climbing hills to see if their house survived, My Step dad gets to sit there and watch the frigging news with custom coverage just for him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPdXqBDTtugLook how close that grass burned. My Stepdad was always lucky, lucky, lucky and I was counting on that yesterday-- apparently correctly.
Loosing this house would have killed him emotionally and mentally. He is already dealing with late stage parkinsons and I don't think could have adapted after loosing this.
He did loose a small storage barn ( think one stall garage attached to a storage shed) and he had kept a $8000 John Deere riding lawn mower in there ( its one of the few things he can still do)
But he had taken it to the main garage... so it was safe too.. there was basically nothing he values in there when it burned..
The Binoculars in the coverage were a gift from me and my wife.. I am actually in the will to receive them back, so I am glad they are there too
We had another friend who was going visiting her parents in Arizona and her house also survived - but it was in one of the neighborhoods that looked like this in the burned sections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgP0_9q6VqYIt was about a block away from getting to hers...
But it looks like Me and Mine all got through this largely unscathed and my little crypto income will continue
Happy New Year to everyone, and pray for those who weren't so lucky.
