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Old 06-26-2012, 03:58 PM   #1
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Yeah, it sucks. I want rain!

Here let me send you some of ours. We have gallons of the stuff.
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Old 06-26-2012, 03:57 PM   #2
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Betcha they can :p
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Old 06-26-2012, 03:59 PM   #3
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No, the county actually said they can't. The fireworks lobby is pretty tough here in Indana.
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Old 06-26-2012, 05:02 PM   #4
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There is a song in there somewhere, dana, about sending me a bucketful of rain. Maybe ill compose it tomorrow when my mind is quicker and my fingers get to be nimbler.

As to IN that is so true. Everyone knows you go to IN for the good fireworks!
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Old 06-26-2012, 05:19 PM   #5
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There is a song in there somewhere, dana, about sending me a bucketful of rain. Maybe ill compose it tomorrow when my mind is quicker and my fingers get to be nimbler.
Make sure it has a good rhythm for the people on the bucket chain :p
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Old 06-26-2012, 05:07 PM   #6
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Yeah, but that only started in 2006, when they finally made fireworks legal. When I was growing up, the best fireworks came from Kentucky...
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Old 06-26-2012, 05:10 PM   #7
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You mean KY used to be good for something?

Kidding grav, I love me some kentucky...it is beeyooteeful!
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Old 06-26-2012, 05:14 PM   #8
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They'll ban fireworks during declared droughts as soon as a fireworks show is somehow responsible for a brush or forest fire... a wayward rocket , a still-smoldering bit of stuff, a tinder-dry patch of road grass and thou...
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Old 06-26-2012, 06:10 PM   #9
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They'll ban fireworks during declared droughts as soon as a fireworks show is somehow responsible for a brush or forest fire... a wayward rocket , a still-smoldering bit of stuff, a tinder-dry patch of road grass and thou...
They most definitely will be, and they most definitely will.
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Old 06-27-2012, 01:57 PM   #10
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Colorado is turning into a crispy critter from the Front Range (Colorado Springs, Denver, Ft. Collins, etc.) to the Western Slope where I now reside. We had a big fire just 16 miles from here with evacuations and much loss of property - about 9,000 acres burned, I think.

I am stunned at the reports and pix from my old hometown(s) of Manitou Springs/Colorado Springs. Almost everyone I know from the old days has been impacted in some way. The entire town of Manitou was under evacuation orders until yesterday and now they're evacuating much of the US Air Force Academy situated northwest of Colorado Springs.

And the fire season is only beginning here in the West. June isn't even over yet and we still have July, August, and September to go. We are all praying for rain, but the forecast is for continued record breaking temps. Cortez hit 100 degrees yesterday when the norm for that date is 90.

http://www.gazette.com/articles/blaz...fire-side.html
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Old 06-27-2012, 02:00 PM   #11
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So glad to see you posting again SamIam.
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Old 06-27-2012, 03:37 PM   #12
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TY, Classic! I just went out to buy a pack of smokes (heh!), and immediently noticed two large plumes of smoke rising from the mountains just south of town. Meanwhile, a really scenic area just west of Durango has also started to burn. It was less than an acre an hour ago and has now spread to 30. The local radio stations are giving updates every half hour on all the fires. So sad. In addition to the property loss, there is the loss of so many beautiful places and National Forest land.
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Old 06-27-2012, 05:13 PM   #13
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Welcome back, SamIam.
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Old 06-28-2012, 06:39 AM   #14
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Glad to hear from you, Sam.

Is Bullitt out fighting this lot, do we know?

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Old 06-28-2012, 07:19 AM   #15
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It's supposed to be a record breaking 102 in the city today. When did I move to the deep south?
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