Any word regarding the PS Audio facilites…plumbing…bursts water pipes etc?
Hope all is well!!
I found it odd that so many trees remained standing along side homes that were burned to the ground by raging fires and 100 mph winds.
Yes, we got that the first time. 
Nature is often weird.
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Perhaps this ground level video from the day after will help. Stills don’t quite communicate the randomness and devastation. Note that while a number of trees appear unharmed, many did burn yet are still standing. I’m also guessing that many - like the houses that were there hours before - are simply gone. Turned to ash and blown away with the wind.
Kind of puts the lie to the British phrase, “safe as houses”. Though of course historically, they are more familiar with this sort of thing than we are.
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Wow. That was horrible.
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And speaking of trees still standing and the randomness of nature, when one of our biggest, most beautiful oaks was hit by lightening, I thought we would lose only the limb that was blasted off.
When the arborist and the insurer came, they said no, the tree has to come down, it was “cooked” from the inside.
And sure enough, when it was cut down in sections, there was not much left inside that one would identify as tree.
A great example of when it is good to rely on the experts.
I will admit that we were heartbroken.
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Gary, I spent 35+ years teaching in a college of forestry, and while I am NOT a fire guy, I worked with many who are, and it is always a mystery while some trees burn and others next to it, don’t. Nature loves a mosaic.
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It was a lovely sunny day in the 50’s, albeit windy, but that happens around here. Nothing special until around 11am. By 4pm 300 houses were simply gone.
More than understandable. These losses are devastating.
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I try not to think of the animals, wild and domestic. 
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The oddity though, is that almost every photo I looked at, had a burned down house with untouched trees and shrubs in close proximity.
And its not just that these trees didn’t burn down, they also didn’t get blown down, by the 100+ mph winds that we’re reported.
Okay, this is strange. Zoom Earth shows hot spots showing up at 12:10 Thurs morning, no smoke, almost 11 hrs before the fire officially stated.
From the Daily Camera:
“The fire started near Marshall Road and Cherryvale Road at around 11 a.m. and began burning east through open space. By the time he spoke at a press conference at 5 p.m. Thursday, Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said the fire had grown to 1,600 acres in size and had forced the evacuation of both Superior and Louisville.”
I hear Sasquatch was spotted that night with a gas can and Zippo. He gets around.
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It is, indeed. Chaos Theory (more precisely, complex dynamic systems) and the power distribution…
It’s one of these rare books (like Taleb’s “Fooled By Randomness”) that will rewire your thinking processes.
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In conspiracy with aliens.
It is good to have this nailed down.
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If it was Sasquatch, he was using something other than a can of gas and a Zippo lighter, because there was no smoke. Smoke didn’t start appearing until sometime around 11am.
I didn’t want to upset anyone, but you’re right. He had an infrared weapon stolen from the military.
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