Over 500 homes burned to the ground near Boulder

[MileHighGrowler]

It's been horrifically dry this fall/winter. We had higher than normal precipitation in the spring, so there was a lot of extra grass growth. I'm not sure what the Boulder area did over the summer to keep it trimmed back, but that extra growth always creates more wildfire issues when it's not managed well after a heavy rain spring. The same thing has happened in California several years now when they've had big rain springs and then super dry summers.

Mostly, it's just crushing to see hundreds of families completely displaced, and right after the holidays. It's not even fire damage, just complete and utter destruction down to the foundations. I live about 40 minutes south of Boulder, but know people affected. That same day, we only had winds about 25mph. And then got 6" of snow the next day. What a difference a few miles and a day can make.