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May 17, 2009
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This goes out to Shoot and all the other Dan Wesson folks living near the terrible fires out west. Hope you all are safe and keeping those Dans cool! 
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March 2, 2008
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Mike has not been on here for close to two weeks. This is the week (I think) that the new class reports in to the Academy and that has to be a pretty hectic time, now the wildfires. I don't think he lives in Colorado Springs, hoping all is safe and well for the family.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
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January 24, 2009
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Steve, Mike does live in Colorado Springs.
I sure hope he, his family & his home will be okay. I think we have one or two other members who also live in the same general area. I hope all is well for those guys, too. Scary stuff!!
The news I've been hearing has said that they are diverting the new class cadets to another location for the time being & the A.F. Academy has brought in a lot of additional help, to keep from being burned out.
The wildfires we've been having this year are seemingly everywhere. The fire near my house was finally stopped by early Monday this week, but there's at least five others in our state that are blazing away. Two of which are massive. Lots of folks are losing their homes & everything around them.
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May 2, 2009
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I'm still here !!!
As many of you know, I usually spend my summer after spring break teaching survival/evasion in the mountains of CO... And I was this year also--until the fire hit
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Nothing gets me out of the woods--rain, snow, wildlife, etc....but fire is different--it gets my attention real quick, and a "get out" is all I need to move out quickly.
At least I got to come home and see the family for 3 days--I'm back in action tomorrow (maybe)...
The fires were real bad, and real close to us. Luckily my home is 20 miles east of the mountains, so free from fire danger. It was impressive to see to say the least--not to often you see the entire front range with wildfires all over it. It is a rough time for many--over 346+ homes were destroyed, and a few big local landmarks (Flying W ranch 60+ years old). Fire was spread out in several directions with lots of shifting winds, so very tough to fight....and she is still going strong...
For all those members who I owe e-mails, phone calls, Pac cases, and all the other stuff, I apologize--been a busier summer than normal, and I didn't get to come out of the woods once a week like last year. I'll get a new schedule tomorrow...maybe I'll get to login once in a while !!!
SHOOT
March 25, 2008
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Best of everything to you and yours, stay safe!
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January 24, 2009
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Mike! Glad to hear you're not burned out! Hearing news like that would honestly bring me to the brink, after the news I've heard from other friends this week.
Thanks for checking in & letting us know you & the famdamily are safe, it means a LOT!
BTW, I'm still smellin' campfire here at home...the bummer is that it's coming from one of my favorite high Uinta (mountain vacation spots 90+ miles away...lots-o-tall timber in that area, with tall grass in between.) 
I guess it won't look like it did in '11 for most of the rest of my living days. Maybe I should have stopped for more pics, on some of those days...
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...the worst part is that preliminary news is saying that "tweakers" are at fault for this one. They're saying that the copper ground wires have been cut & removed from some of high-peak towers in the area. Those towers have been recently struck by dry lightening, then SPARK!
Tweakers? That sounds like to me like a current-day ZOMBIE!
December 26, 2010
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Mike,
Glad to hear you and yours are safe and haven't been burned out.
CF,
I had to google "Tweaker" to learn what it meant. Great, a meth head who steals stuff and is compulsive about cleaning, straightening, etc. Might as well be a freakin' Zombie.
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May 17, 2009
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Mike,
Glad you and the family are okay!
Ed
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January 24, 2009
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95XL883 said:
CF,
I had to google "Tweaker" to learn what it meant. Great, a meth head who steals stuff and is compulsive about cleaning, straightening, etc. Might as well be a freakin' Zombie.
Maybe our local "tweaker" problem is still retained within my general area, or I should say I hope so. It's quickly becoming an expensive problem. Cleaning & straightening? That's GOT TO be only the woman tweakers!
Salvage copper prices (and other metals...like the ones in catalytic convertors) are seemingly feeding the meth-head subculture around here. Those tweaked-out freaks will dig down & cut the wires to streetlights, tie them to a truck bumper & yank! On & on, down the road for miles...often in broad daylight, while posing as road workers in orange vests.
There's been a few schools that have had tweakers climb onto the roof, hack out all the salvageable copper in the a/c units on the roof & toss it over the side, to be loaded onto a truck. One main county school bus yard was recently broken into during the night. With cordless sawzall's, the catalytic convertors were cut from under around 40 buses.
And of course, non of that is cheap to replace to the rest of us taxpayers.
I apologize for steering this thread off into zombieland. If only someone could figure a way to make tweakers put all that hard work to some good. Sure, and Dorothy will click her red slippers in one more minute, too...
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