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Warpy

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5. Wooded areas are always prone to wildfires
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 02:12 AM
Apr 2013

but now through June is the major fire season. There is plenty of warning for most of them if you need to decamp to a safer location. The whole state is classified as being at moderate earthquake risk but the only one I've felt since I've been here was no worse than the ones I felt back east. The earliest snow here in the big city was September 20 and the latest was May 5, so weird weather is fairly common. It just doesn't last. It blows out and turns into tornadoes farther east.

November is when travel on the interstates through the high passes can get a little chancy if a storm blows in.

Just watch how you're reacting to the altitude. It takes a while to manufacture all the extra red blood cells it takes to live up here.



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Welcome. I moved out here from Boston a little over 20 years ago Warpy Apr 2013 #1
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