Boulder Fire: We are safe…

… and the gear is safe, and the house is safe. Well, so far. The house is about as far away from the fire as one can be and still be directly in its path – and still not be in the city of Boulder itself [we are about a mile from Boulder].

Thanks for everyone’s kind emails and phone calls. 🙂

John De Bord Photography

We are near the top of the major ridge in the foreground – hard to tell from the photo [for us at the time!] but the fire ‘just over the ridge’ is actually about 2 ridges behind us as far as we have been able to tell.

If something like this happens to you, the only way you are going to find out information in a timely manner is on Twitter – in this case: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#boulderfire

In the worst case we are more or less well insured (especially the businesses) and we got out what we thought at the time was the most important personal stuff [hard to know what we would regret not saving over the long term].

When we left black charcoal and ash was falling out of the sky onto the deck and it was hard to see and breathe with all the smoke. The wind was gusting, moving the fire towards us at about 35mph [sometimes is would move the smoke up and over us, sometimes right down on top of us]. Boulder was often hidden with all the smoke collecting in the valley it sits in. Hard to think all that well at times like that – even with the fair amount of planning we have done over the years.

But, Neli is back to talking with people about their systems on the phone and I am … I am taking some time to get some exercise – our hotel is about 50 yards from our gym [instead of a 20 minute drive :-)]