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We made it back to the Denver area, missing a massive fire in Nebraska and also avoiding the 70 MPH gusts of winds in Wyoming. Tomorrow it will be cooler, but the forecast I just saw said there will be record highs in the Denver area next week.
I always expect a drive in the upper plains to be dicey in March, but not because of fire, but blizzards. These fires are huge, perhaps the largest in the recorded history of Nebraska:
The Morrill Fire has now burned more than 460,000 acres between Morrill, Garden, Arthur and Keith counties. The fire is just north of Nebraska 26, a major roadway through Nebraska’s Panhandle. It has stretched down to the north shore of Lake McConaughy, one of the state’s most popular lakes.
The Cottonwood fire has burned at least 100,000 acres in Lincoln and Dawson counties. The fire is burning just south of Interstate 80, the main interstate roadway that runs through Nebraska.
The Road 203 Fire has burned at least 40,000 acres near Halsey, in the Nebraska National Forest. Pillen said federal crews are working to contain that fire since it’s on federal land.
The Anderson Bridge Fire has burned 16,000 acres in Cherry County, just west of Valentine. It’s affecting land in the Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest.
The simple fact is that the current climate is scary, and it’s going to be incredibly expensive to deal with the damage that will come from this. And, again, it’s March. We should be having blizzards, not massive wildfires.
All the messing around and nonsense of the past year plus of the Trump Administration is whistling past this graveyard.
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