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KPT's Earth thread

Discussion in 'Jobs & Careers' started by PreRunner03, Mar 15, 2012.

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  1. Jun 30, 2012 at 6:32 AM
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    bethes

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    This breaks my heart. This fire is burning outside Boulder, CO. The pic is taken looking southwest toward Boulder from my hometown; this was pretty much the view from my front door growing up. I have a couple friends in Boulder whose homes are being threatened, pre-evacuation notices have been issued for thier neighborhoods.

    And I cancelled my vacation plans for Colorado, given that the friend I was going to stay with may have to evacuate. I'm going to Oklahoma instead to visit my parents after my well is done.
    So... to lighten the mood:
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  2. Jun 30, 2012 at 6:45 AM
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    The people that fight forrest fires out west are some pretty amazing people. When I was in high school the mountain around my hometown was set on fire by some local idiots and it got way too far out of hand for our forestry department so there were fire fighters from out west, Arizona I think, flown in to help contain it. IIRC it was contained and put out not very long after they got here. Extraordinary people. Its very sickening to see the pictures everyone is putting up. My thoughts are with anyone that has been or will potentially be affected.
     
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  3. Jun 30, 2012 at 7:38 AM
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    bethes

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    My dad was a crew boss for Colorado State Forest Service fire fighting team, and then he was an assistant district forester (that's basically 2nd in command at their office) when he wasn't fighting fires. They went everywhere, all over the US and even occasionally Canada, they would fly firefighters wherever they were needed. My favorite story was during the Yellowstone fires in I think 1988 they sent his boss to Yellowstone to help there. In the meantime a fire broke out right in their home district; in fact they used the forest service office as the fire camp because the fire was literally on the hill behind the office. So dad's boss was sitting in a motel in Montana watching the news and what's he see? Pictures of his own office, fire raging in the background.

    My dad also has a little blob of metal, oval shaped and about the size of a decent hamburger, that he found out in the woods during a fire. It's what was left of the engine block of a Porsche after a forest fire was done with it. He tells people he owns a Porsche now. ;)
     
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  4. Jun 30, 2012 at 8:12 AM
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    MTgirl too many frogs, not enough princes... Moderator

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    I feel your pain. I grew up camping all over MT and every summer a fire or pine beetles or some other natural disaster comes through and wipes out the forest. Nothing looks the way it used to when I was a kid, makes me sad. :(
    Sorry about your vacation, try to make the most of it regardless of where you end up!

    And that second pic looks like Yellowstone. People are stupid. Never ceases to amaze me how incredibly dumb people can be.

    Yep, that was '88. And FWIW those fires consumed nearly 800,000 acres
     
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  5. Jul 3, 2012 at 10:02 AM
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    Zombie Runner Are these black helicopters for me?

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    fireworks were banned here last year. This year they are good to go though, we have had lots of rain so far
     
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  6. Jul 3, 2012 at 5:25 PM
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    xJuice My spoon is too Big!

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    [​IMG]
     
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  7. Jul 9, 2012 at 8:03 AM
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    *Nudge* We need a natural disaster to get this thread going again...
     
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  8. Jul 9, 2012 at 8:11 AM
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    95SLE Starting to get cold outside

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    Calling BT, calling BT!! He is supposed to be in Montana this month if that would help. ;)
     
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  9. Jul 9, 2012 at 8:58 AM
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  10. Jul 9, 2012 at 9:37 AM
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    The long standing geologist humor is to say, "wow, what a gneiss piece of schist"
     
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  11. Jul 9, 2012 at 10:04 AM
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    *mother nature...is that you?

    I guess not, Its gonna be dry and hot for 3 more months here
     
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  12. Jul 13, 2012 at 1:22 PM
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    Welcome!


    And now, for your amusement, this is me at work today:
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    We're having a little benzene trouble at the moment.
     
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  13. Jul 13, 2012 at 2:59 PM
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    Sorry, that pic sent me into a flashback...
     
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  14. Jul 16, 2012 at 5:16 AM
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    Alt text: "That's a gneiss butte."
     
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  15. Jul 16, 2012 at 5:45 PM
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  17. Jul 17, 2012 at 12:06 PM
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  18. Jul 17, 2012 at 12:24 PM
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    Or perhaps nothing when you were a kid looked the way it used to, before or after. The world is constantly changing. Nothing to truly be sad about.
     
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  19. Jul 18, 2012 at 5:49 AM
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    Zombie Runner

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    Zombie Runner Are these black helicopters for me?

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    I saw this guy out on my deer lease last week

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    the rock is a little over a foot wide. The camera just makes it look smaller
     
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  20. Jul 21, 2012 at 10:22 PM
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    Discovered a couple of interesting areas today...

    First a natural fireplace and chimney. This area is popular with snowmobilers....they seem to like to build fires at the base of this formation (hence the black discoloration on some of the rocks). There are 3 natural caves/openings in the rocks.
    rocks_537658c87ada18802218acc2bc51a583e02c2f93.jpg

    And this rock seems to have tumbled 180* from the left.

    rocks2_7fcc5c1857959bedeebc4eeab2a3e301be0ffbf4.jpg
     
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