You can see the flames on the left. Center right is the Cave of the Winds where Sammi had her ghost tour birthday. To the right of that is the canyon hike Deana and I just did in May.
There are currently 10 wildfires burning out of control in Colorado. The High Park fire continues, the most destructive fire in Colorado history. The Waldo Canyon fire, pictured above, is poised to be the worst in all of Colorado Springs area, ever. The Boulder fire that sprang up today is threatening to evacuate parts of the city.
We've set heat records for the past four days. And we broke another record -- never in the record keeping history of Colorado, starting back in the 1840s, has there ever been this many triple-digit days in a row in Denver.
We've never needed rain more than now -- heavy, dousing, lightening-free rain needs to pour out of the sky across the entire state for hours and hours, days even.
Many Colorado homes are without air conditioning, and most without air conditioning can't handle these temperatures. I'm sitting amid a mess in the loft, every piece of furniture that could possibly block the flow of air through the floor vents moved to the center of the room. Floor vents, made primarily to carry hot air from the floor up to the ceiling, do nearly nothing with cold air. The ceiling fans stay on high in any room not inhabited. I have to turn them down to medium or my eyeballs dry out and I can't blink.
And what everyone in Colorado is thinking is this: it's only June.
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