{"id":41514,"date":"2014-03-24T16:53:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T22:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/firenado.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T18:54:35","slug":"firenado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/firenado.html","title":{"rendered":"Firenado!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Crikey. A prescribed burn at RMA of 150 acres got a little interesting when the fire created a dust devil that sucked up tumbleweeds and fire and &#8230; yeah, what Les said.<\/p>\n<p>RMA&#39;s an intersting place &#8212; the former site of the US Army&#39;s chemical weapons factory, it later had space leased out to various pesticide manufacturers. Despite that, only certain core areas were badly contaminated, and those have been since cleaned up. It&#39;s now a large wildlife area (one of the most pristine plains areas near downtown Denver, since so much acreage was fenced off), and houses a major bald eagle nesting site.<\/p>\n<p>And, we now know, <i>firenadoes!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tumbleweed firenado. I totally expect to see this made into a bad SyFy film in the very near future. Probably using the same terrible sound track.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wcUnE0tHcaI?autohide=1&#038;version=3' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/NDoE55NQ5hv' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crikey. A prescribed burn at RMA of 150 acres got a little interesting when the fire created a dust devil that sucked up tumbleweeds and fire and &#8230; yeah, what Les said. RMA&#39;s an intersting place &#8212; the former site of the US Army&#39;s chemical weapons factory, it later had space leased out to various &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/firenado.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firenado!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3882,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/18\/blizzard.html","url_meta":{"origin":41514,"position":0},"title":"Blizzard","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Mar-03 4:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Cool. We're under a blizzard warning. Another 3-6\" this evening, anodhter 5-10\" overnight, another 3-6\" tomorrow. Yeesh. United, Frontier and American have cancelled all their flights today (though some planes...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather (mine)&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather (mine)","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/weather-and-seasons"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":37247,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/04\/the-powerhouse-fire.html","url_meta":{"origin":41514,"position":1},"title":"The Powerhouse Fire","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Jun-13 6:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is actually 3-4 miles from my boss' house (though, fortunately, heading the other direction). \u00a0Crikey.Reshared post from +In FocusThe Terrible Beauty of California's Powerhouse Fire - 28 photos - http:\/\/theatln.tc\/16H2VDY - Last Thursday, a wildfire started in California's Angeles National Forest, north of Los Angeles, near a hydroelectric plant\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49193,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/are-cats-really-all-that-awful.html","url_meta":{"origin":41514,"position":2},"title":"Are cats really all that awful?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Jan-15 11:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently not. Though there are a few areas I'd disagree on with the article.1. I'm pretty certain there's more to feline relationships than indifference or desire for food. Our cats interact with us more than just scent-marking.2. I've had indoor\/outdoor cats enough to know that they are not wholly unsuccessful\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5141,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/28\/fire_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":41514,"position":3},"title":"Fire!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Oct-03 11:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Reminiscent of the satellite photos of the Hayman Fire near Denver last year, there's some fine satellite photopgraphy (still and time-lapse) (in increasing bandwidth-demands) here, here, here, and here. 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