I don't know what to say

I had a post in mind earlier - but that's been shot to you know where. A quick personal note. I did receive my 2nd roof check yesterday and was able to meet with the roofer today in order to finish paying for the roof. But then I heard about the fires. There is a new one around the Boulder area. I could see the smoke from my house.   Then I got on Facebook because I was concerned about a friend from the area (she's not near the fire but there is smoke in the area.)  and I discovered another friend in Co springs posting about the loss of a famous ranch nearby.   Apparently the Waldo fire seriously flared up today.   We got thunderstorms across the state...and while I thought this was a good thing as it brought rain... it wasn't good down there.   It was very windy and the fire took off.

9news still had one structure burned, but my friend said that there were houses burning.   She gave me a link to the local news and I've been listening to the streaming as they evacuated neighborhood after neighborhood.    They couldn't confirm houses burned at first, but later they showed pictures of houses burning. :(    They are talking about how much a disaster this is - and how they don't think the state of Colorado have EVER had a wildfire season as bad as this.

I used to dream about houses catching fire as a kid.  One after another you'd see flames on the roofs of the houses.   In my dreams they were in my neighborhood - but at the time those houses did not exist as it was farm country.  The whole area is built up now.  

These fires are just awful.    I really don't know what else to say about it.