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re: UPDATE: Our Best Friends' House in Ruidoso Spared!
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:12 pm to AlwysATgr
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:12 pm to AlwysATgr
Wild timelapse from yesterday - from clear to choked with smoke in hours.
Downtown Ruidoso timelapse
NM fire evacuations are done in zones and stages, like a hurricane (in this case, "Ready," "Set" and "Go"). Monday's alerts skipped straight to GO, with no chance to retrieve belongings or prepare homes.
Unlike many areas of the mountain west, there's somewhat affordable real estate there and it's been on my radar. But fire danger is always high.
Downtown Ruidoso timelapse
NM fire evacuations are done in zones and stages, like a hurricane (in this case, "Ready," "Set" and "Go"). Monday's alerts skipped straight to GO, with no chance to retrieve belongings or prepare homes.
Unlike many areas of the mountain west, there's somewhat affordable real estate there and it's been on my radar. But fire danger is always high.
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Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:34 pm to blueridgeTiger
man that really sucks - visited there when on business outside Roswell, and it was such a cool little town. Quarters was a pretty good restaurant.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:43 pm to Commandeaux
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First world problems.
Tell that to the horse.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:46 pm to Tiger Prawn
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I think one was attributed to sparks caused by a trailer's chain dragging on the concrete.
How the hell do they trace something back like that? Sounds like they pulled that one out of their arse.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:47 pm to blueridgeTiger
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Our Best Friends Just Lost their Vacation Home in the Ruidoso Fire
Well I guess that friendship is over. Better find some new friends. One time I had a friend go to rehab and get sober. What a bore he is now. I haven’t talked to him since.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:55 pm to blueridgeTiger
K
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:56 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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What caused this spontaneous combustion?
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:14 pm to TigerTatorTots
Who said it was a vacation home?
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:21 pm to LegendInMyMind
Someone I knew who had been loaned to western states to fight fires there was talking about eastern fires.
Apparently our high humidity is a good thing at suppressing fires. The other thing that they do is NOT publicize fires that are started in seasons when they are more likely to spread. Less publicity seems not to inspire the dregs of the earth with matches.
Apparently our high humidity is a good thing at suppressing fires. The other thing that they do is NOT publicize fires that are started in seasons when they are more likely to spread. Less publicity seems not to inspire the dregs of the earth with matches.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:22 pm to blueridgeTiger
“Well it's getting kinda cold in Ruidoso,
Abilene ain't getting any closer,
One more drink, one more hand of poker,
Because a fool and his money's going to have to part”
“Saddle Tramp” by Charlie Daniels
Abilene ain't getting any closer,
One more drink, one more hand of poker,
Because a fool and his money's going to have to part”
“Saddle Tramp” by Charlie Daniels
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:27 pm to CBDTiger
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Unlike many areas of the mountain west, there's somewhat affordable real estate there
I wonder why....
Posted on 6/19/24 at 8:27 am to BuckyCheese
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Unlike many areas of the mountain west, there's somewhat affordable real estate there
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I wonder why....
I'm no real estate expert but a big factor is probably that the people who move to Ruidoso come from TX and OK rather than CA (like CO or Santa Fe and Taos). They're not moving there after selling multi-million dolllar homes and bidding up prices.
Plus it's pretty isolated. 2 to 2.5 hours to Las Cruces or El Paso.
$439k for a 4-BR house with these views?
Homeowner's/fire/flood insurance probably still cheaper than on the Gulf Coast.
Zillow
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:09 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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Have they heard about the other 3/4?
I guess that must have sounded funny to you in your head.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:13 pm to blueridgeTiger
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We were planning to spend a couple of weeks with them in August. They are heartbroken. They still don't know the status of their quarterhorse stabled at Ruidoso Downs.
Sir this is not Facebook, this is the OT
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:23 pm to blueridgeTiger
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We were planning to spend a couple of weeks with them in August.
Sorry for your vacation loss.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:30 pm to real turf fan
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Someone I knew who had been loaned to western states to fight fires there was talking about eastern fires.
Apparently our high humidity is a good thing at suppressing fires. The other thing that they do is NOT publicize fires that are started in seasons when they are more likely to spread. Less publicity seems not to inspire the dregs of the earth with matches.
Yeah, the humidity helps a whole lot. Add in that we don't usually have a "dry season" and we don't get "dry thunderstorms" like they do out West. Every now and then, though, things line up like with the fire in the Smokies and last year's Tiger Island fire in Louisiana. Both of those were attributed to arson, by the way. Florida can have pretty active wildfire seasons at times, too.
There are all sorts of contributing factors for a given area, though. The Tiger Island fire was able to burn so long because it occured during a drought (of course), but was able to roll like it did because it was burning in a monoculture pine "forest" with a bunch of downed and dead standing trees. The Interlaken fire in Colorado right now got a hold like it did mainly due to it being in a heavy tourist area that just doesn't get the opportunity for prescribed burns very often. Fortunately for them, it is June. If a fire was going to burn there, this may be the best time for it to happen. If it were August it would have been much worse.
Both of the fires threatening Ruidoso have some similarities to the Interlaken fire in that fire management is complicated by the tourism aspect. The added factor for them is that the southern fire (the Salt Fire) started on tribal land. And take a look at that home posted on this page. That house being tucked into those trees so closely is a problem that can be seen throughout the area. A large number of the structures lost to that fire have been from spot fires occurring in town, ahead of the main fire. You just cannot have that much potential fuel so close to structures.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:31 pm to blueridgeTiger
You know what you should totally do.
Start a go fund me
Start a go fund me
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:33 pm to turnpiketiger
Should’ve bought more EVs
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:04 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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What caused this spontaneous combustion?
+1
Ghosts and the homeless one of those Hawaiian islands has a pretty good idea how this infernal magic works. (So do people who can add 2+2, whose brains aren't lodged up their azz.)
"Muh Forest fires"; "Tinderboxes"; Cigarette butts; "careless campers"...
Wrong tunes. By a mile.
STOP.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:20 pm to Liberator
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STOP.
Yes, please......stop.
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