ValpoVike

Oh sure, blame it on the baby! Never mind that we had issues with dryness before she was even born... I literally couldn't resist, but in all seriousness this has been a long term issue.

We had intense winds up here in Glen Haven last night. On my home weather station I clocked 99mph at 8:40pm, and lost power shortly after. Some fence damage, and many trees down in the neighborhood especially in the CP burn areas.

I did ok up here with a bit over 4". I was expecting 3-6. Definitely not a big snowfall, but I'll take anything.

Yesterday was crazy dry. My home station dipped to 4% as well.

Only about 1" up here in Glen Haven. We certainly needed a lot more. I woke up around 2am Monday morning and noticed out my window a flame on a ridge above the North Fork trail at the edge of the CP fire. Probably an isolated tree torching, but this fire isn't out yet and the dry pattern setting up over the next two weeks is of concern. Crazy how this thing has survived two large snow events.

We can hope. I have never wished for winter as hard as I do now, and I love snow so the bar was already set pretty high

Loveland should be ok, RH's there this morning have recovered to 90%+, winds should be much lighter, and the fire front is in grasses. I do think that parts of west Loveland dodged a bullet yesterday. As for our neighborhood, it has burned thru about 30% of the neighborhood and the VFD along with the IC crews are still battling. Fortunately since yesterday morning it appears to be active and not extreme. Reduced wind speed should allow aviation on it today which will help a ton. My home is furthest from the Miller Fork drainage, so I appear to be in good shape. I personally dodged a big giant bullet (so far), but others not so lucky.

Well, that damn fire finally got us today. My neighborhood, The Retreat, was ground zero for today's fire. This thing is an unbelievable monster. Just this morning the Sheriff office let me thru at sunrise to winterize my home since they had cut power. I took this photo from my deck at 8am before I left. At the time, the fire was still smoldering which you can see. Then at noon it went extreme and tore down the Miller Fork drainage. The other image is from Lily Lake looking over Estes Park back towards the Glen Haven area.

I sure hope not. This is crazy. Today was the southeast side of Cameron's turn to explode. It is currently at the western edge of the CSU Mountain Campus. The winds for Sunday early a.m. thru afternoon are of concern.

Agreed, and they went commercial free for a very long time. Great job TWC. Thank you for not airing the "weather for the wedding" or some other bs. Bad, bad, bad - Fox and CNN.