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re: UPDATE: Our Best Friends' House in Ruidoso Spared!
Posted on 6/18/24 at 1:04 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
Posted on 6/18/24 at 1:04 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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Insurance?
I'm sure that they have insurance or maybe they don't need it.
Kinda like having a $300k car. If one can afford a wire for that much of a cash payment, replacing it shouldn't be a big deal.
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Posted on 6/18/24 at 1:12 pm to blueridgeTiger
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We were planning to spend a couple of weeks with them in August.
Sorry your vacation got ruined.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 1:13 pm to Commandeaux
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First world problems.
Was gonna downvote but you are right
Posted on 6/18/24 at 1:15 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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What caused this spontaneous combustion?
Hebrew beam weapons in low-orbit
Posted on 6/18/24 at 1:17 pm to blueridgeTiger
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Our Best Friends Just Lost their Vacation Home in the Ruidoso Fire
Posted on 6/18/24 at 1:22 pm to blueridgeTiger
My heart weeps for all the rich old people that lost second homes full of junk their kids would have eventually liquidated.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 1:26 pm to blueridgeTiger
I always thought Ruidoso was a disaster waiting to happen.
Its basically an isolated national forest and an isolated mountain peak that is surrounded by hot desert.
It was incredible to watch how quickly the environment changes between Alamogordo NM and Ruidoso NM. Hot dry desert with rocks, tumbleweeds and cactus.....and an hour later you are in a cold Alpine evergreen forest.
I also remember seeing burned areas on the side of Sierra Blanca peak while riding the ski lift at Ski Apache Resort....so wildfires must be pretty common.
We went to a museum while there and they discussed the history of Lincoln National Forest. They told us that the original "Smokey The Bear" came from a wildfire at that forest. How ironic.
Its basically an isolated national forest and an isolated mountain peak that is surrounded by hot desert.
It was incredible to watch how quickly the environment changes between Alamogordo NM and Ruidoso NM. Hot dry desert with rocks, tumbleweeds and cactus.....and an hour later you are in a cold Alpine evergreen forest.
I also remember seeing burned areas on the side of Sierra Blanca peak while riding the ski lift at Ski Apache Resort....so wildfires must be pretty common.
We went to a museum while there and they discussed the history of Lincoln National Forest. They told us that the original "Smokey The Bear" came from a wildfire at that forest. How ironic.
This post was edited on 6/18/24 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 6/18/24 at 1:33 pm to blueridgeTiger
Use to go skiing there when I lived in El Paso. Loved that place. Friends had a "cabin". Had six large bedrooms and a window that was twenty feet long with a view of the mountains.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 2:01 pm to lockthevaught
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I also remember seeing burned areas on the side of Sierra Blanca peak while riding the ski lift at Ski Apache Resort....so wildfires must be pretty common.
They are common. The municipal water supply reservoir for Alamogordo is just west of Ruidoso and it's been closed and basically empty since a wildfire in 2012. I have several friends who have property in the area and they have been burnt out several times. I don't know how they maintain insurance it happens so regularly. New Mexico has fireplace bans...in your home...periods when huge areas of the state is so dry that you can't use a fireplace. It is a beautiful area, some of the best turkey hunting anywhere...but it is a haarrd place to live and own property. Most residents of New Mexico simply take it in stride kind of like gulf coast residents do hurricanes. Texans, especially those from east Texas, freak the frick out and sell out pretty quick. Folks from New Mexico just rebuild....
Posted on 6/18/24 at 2:16 pm to lockthevaught
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It was incredible to watch how quickly the environment changes between Alamogordo NM and Ruidoso NM. Hot dry desert with rocks, tumbleweeds and cactus.....and an hour later you are in a cold Alpine evergreen forest.
When we lived in Carlsbad our house was right at 3100 feet. Cloudcroft was about 2 hours from us and it was right at 8200 feet. right at a mile of elevation change in what is actually about 95 miles in a straight line. I have left our house in Carlsbad and it would be 115 degrees on my weather station and 2 hours later be in Weed and it would be 65. Middle of the day. I suspect Weed is 1000 feet lower than Cloudcroft. Crawling with Turkey and Mule Deer though!
Posted on 6/18/24 at 2:19 pm to blueridgeTiger
Friend who lives in my building sold his two condos in Lahaina last spring and bought one in Henderson NV.
Those condos he sold burned up last summer.
Those condos he sold burned up last summer.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 2:53 pm to blueridgeTiger
Posted on 6/18/24 at 2:54 pm to blueridgeTiger
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They still don't know the status of their quarterhorse stabled at Ruidoso Downs
Posted on 6/18/24 at 3:03 pm to Tempratt
I get all the "first world problem" comments in this thread, at least to an extent. But, 500 structures have been destroyed to this point between the two fires. I bet most of those don't belong to the people many believe they do.
This post was edited on 6/18/24 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 6/18/24 at 3:35 pm to blueridgeTiger
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They still don't know the status of their quarterhorse stabled at Ruidoso Downs.
Have they heard about the other 3/4?
Posted on 6/18/24 at 3:38 pm to LegendInMyMind
I want someone to help me with the math on how much CO2 is put into the atmosphere in a fire such as this (or the Canadian ones) vs the CO2 that is/was put into the atmosphere from the NYC wood fired pizza ovens the psychos are trying to ban and ruin people's livelihoods.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 3:45 pm to blueridgeTiger
They shouldn’t build in an area prone to fires amirite?!?
Posted on 6/18/24 at 3:59 pm to blueridgeTiger
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We were planning to spend a couple of weeks with them in August.
swingers
Posted on 6/18/24 at 4:01 pm to blueridgeTiger
Ok
Posted on 6/18/24 at 5:31 pm to blueridgeTiger
Ruidoso is a cool town. For someone from the Gulf Coast I was in awe of how dry the area is.
If I remember right, it's about halfway between the Gulf and the Pacific so moisture has to travel a long way to get there.
Wild horses were a nice touch.
If I remember right, it's about halfway between the Gulf and the Pacific so moisture has to travel a long way to get there.
Wild horses were a nice touch.
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