FIRES!

[3waycross]

I want to thank all of my friends who have PM'd me about our safety. We are fine for now and a ways from any of the big fires. We did have a local scare around 2pm today. Lightning hit the ranch where I keep my cows and started a small fire but it was put out real fast.

The rain that came with it was a gift from the Lord for sure. It was the first rain in weeks!. Hopefully we will get more tomorrow. As of now 80% of the irrigation in the county is cut off. If it doesn't rain from now on we will be in worse trouble than we already are. NO pasture and for sure no hay! We are looking at truckin in hay from out of state!

 

[pdfangus]

glad to hear you all are okay....

the images we are seeing make me wonder how anything is surviving....

could you clarify how or why the irrigation is cut off. Not real familiar with the specifics of irrigation where you are.

I spent a year or so at Fort Carson in the early seventies so some of the things I see on Tee Vee I recognize.

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

Glad the fires are not to close to you 3way. The fires look bad where they are. Hay is going to hard to come by. We are way short here, and expect to see a lot of cattle in my area going to market due to the drought.

 

[Jogeephus]

Glad you are alright with the fires and hope you get some much needed rain. Drought sucks.

 

[3waycross]

glad to hear you all are okay....

the images we are seeing make me wonder how anything is surviving....

could you clarify how or why the irrigation is cut off. Not real familiar with the specifics of irrigation where you are.

I spent a year or so at Fort Carson in the early seventies so some of the things I see on Tee Vee I recognize.

Jim, every drop of water that flows out of the mountains here is owned by some one. The water rights are adjudicated by date and he who holds the oldest water gets to use it first and last. If for example the Cameron ditch is 1886 water and the Missouri park ditch is 1870 then when the water gets down to a certain flow the Cameron is shut off a so that the Missouri Park gets they allotment. The ranch where we run cows has the oldest rights in the county so we still have some water but one of the leases..specifically our fall pasture is a junior right and it just got cut off. Then there are the downstream holders.those folks who have been buying water from ranchers for many years so that the Cholos in Denver can wash their lowriders can call their water and we have to sit here and watch it flow by.

 

[Ned Jr.]

So that's why they need all that water.

There was a small fire that got started close to here a couple days ago and there was someones tracks going towards where it was started. I hope they catch the SOB that's going around starting all these fires

 

[john250]

I just hate that word, adjudicated.

 

[3waycross]

So that's why they need all that water.

There was a small fire that got started close to here a couple days ago and there was someones tracks going towards where it was started. I hope they catch the SOB that's going around starting all these fires

How's your water? I guess Pueblo called theirs so most of Chaffee County is shut down. My cousins outside of Trinidad are down to almost nothing. I guess they trade days on the Hoehne Ditch and every time it's my cousin Joe's turn they shut it down.
You folks getting any rain? We had a 20 minute shower yesterday and I almost wept!

 

[pdfangus]

So that's why they need all that water.

There was a small fire that got started close to here a couple days ago and there was someones tracks going towards where it was started. I hope they catch the SOB that's going around starting all these fires

that there is a varmit....
qualified for shoot shovel and shut up rules...

 

[CottageFarm]

The fires are certainly a problem, but water is the far bigger concern for sure.
They shut the ditch water off in North Park in May this year (that would be the same month they normally tun it on) A whole lot of the grass hay for this area comes from North Park.

Alot of the eastern edge of this fire consists of ranches & hay fields, and now it's working it's way west up Poudre Canyon. The river was already really low in May. It looked more like late July flow at the end of May. The ditches are still running for now, but if we don't get some rain, it's going to get real ugly.
We did get about 3/4" a few nights ago, as well. 1st since mid may. I said a prayer of grateful thanks but greedily asked for a bit more.

I see there's a new fire near Leadville. Is that going to impact anyone here?

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

With no irrigation, I hope any rain that comes your way doesn't come with big T-storms. Glad you're otherwise OK out there.

 

[CottageFarm]

In the summer, our rain always comes with big T-storms,... and frequently hail. Just the way it is here...

 

[melking]

I guess I kind of knew this in the back of my mind, but what you are saying is that you have to pay some person upstream to let the watere continue to flow?

 

[3waycross]

I guess I kind of knew this in the back of my mind, but what you are saying is that you have to pay some person upstream to let the watere continue to flow?

No you just see if your lips will reach your a$$ and kiss it goodbye.

That doesn't mean you can't lease water, and it's the downstream guys who usually own the senior rights! The municipalities have been buying them for years. You're talking millions of dollars for water rights here!

 

[hillsdown]

So glad to hear that you are all safe 3way. You are all in my prayers ♥

 

[alisonb]

Thoughts and prayers to everyone up there, stay safe and hope you get rain soon.

 

[TexasBred]

Help is on he way.......Air Force 1 leaves for Colorado tomorrow and Buckwheat is going to be on board.

 

[MistyMorning]

Pretty good source for up to date info and good links too if you want more.

http://wildfiretoday.com/

 

[CottageFarm]

Help is on he way.......Air Force 1 leaves for Colorado tomorrow and Buckwheat is going to be on board.

:yuck: :yuck: :yuck:

We need that big green vomiting emoticon for this one.

Did I mention :yuck:

 

[3waycross]

Help is on he way.......Air Force 1 leaves for Colorado tomorrow and Buckwheat is going to be on board.

:yuck: :yuck: :yuck:

We need that big green vomiting emoticon for this one.

Did I mention :yuck:

no shyt...........been praying for rain..........may have to change the subject with the Lord