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Date: Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:33 AM<br>Subject: A Fix for a Major Catastrophe<br>To: <a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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<span style="font-family:georgia">Wildfire. 2 Dead. 473 Homes Destroyed. It
didn't have to happen.
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By John Robb
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:13px">The most destructive fire in
Colorado�s history is still burning.</span></font>
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<font size="3">It has already killed <strong>two people</strong> and burned
down more than <a href="https://cs962.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/9906/5b22572cab3c508e/2503298/9648acd34d3c1c1a" target="_blank">473 homes</a>, mostly in�the suburban town of
Black Forest, Colorado.</font>
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<font size="3">That�s a shame.</font>
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<font size="3">This fire <em>should</em> be a national embarrassment.
�There�s absolutely no reason that this event should have been this
bad, with two people dead and nearly 500 expensive homes burnt to the
ground.</font>
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<font size="3">This wasn�t a poor community. �The homeowners and the
community had the resources to prevent this without outside financial
support.</font>
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<font size="3"><a href="https://cs962.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/9908/b5ad29523eaf93df/2503298/9648acd34d3c1c1a" target="_blank"><img alt="Black Forest" height="203" width="360"></a></font>
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<font size="3">This is simply a disaster due an inability to think resiliently,
at every level. �</font>
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<font size="3">Pernicious government regulations that outlaw basic rainwater
harvesting and promote unsafe home and landscape design. �</font>
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<font size="3">Corporations that spend billions marketing dysfunctional, but
profitable, homes that turn us into dependent victims.</font>
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<font size="3">Individual homeowners, who were unwilling to take responsibility
to make their property resilient to disaster (and thereby threatening the lives
and property of everyone else in the community).</font>
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<font size="3">As bad as this is, <strong>it gets worse</strong>.</font>
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<font size="3">Even the people that <em>did</em> take responsibility and
<em>took</em> action didn�t do the right thing. ��They simply
didn�t know how. �Take Nigel Thompson for example. �He and his
family live in the Black Forest community.</font>
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<font size="3">After last year�s massive fire, Nigel decided to take
action to protect his home. �To prepare, Nigel cut�down 20 trees near
his home to create a firebreak. �He also spent a small fortune on a new
roof of�fire retardant tiles. �Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly,
this didn�t work. �His home burned to the ground.</font>
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<font size="3">A simple resilient approach to preventing this type of disaster
starts with the effective management of water.</font>
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<font size="3">Colorado gets more than enough rainwater, even now, to support
the development of a vibrant, living forest environment. �The problem is
that<strong> 97% of the rain that falls onto the ground in Colorado evaporates
before it makes it to a major waterway</strong>. �The opportunity to use
it is simply wasted.</font>
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<font size="3">That error can be corrected. �Simple measures (for details,
see my report on <a href="https://cs962.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/9912/364b9972e841eaa6/2503298/9648acd34d3c1c1a" target="_blank">Water Abundance</a>), at both the home and community
level can turn homes and their associated landscapes into powerful allies in
the fight against wildfires.</font>
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<font size="3">For example, changes to home and neighborhood landscapes (from
swales to <a href="https://cs962.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/9914/0a8c1dd41d701acc/2503298/9648acd34d3c1c1a" target="_blank">hugelkultur</a>) as well as proper cover crops could
easily be added at scales that would have created community wide conditions
(higher humidity, lower temperatures, and green plants) that are�much less
likely to support the spread of a wildfire.</font>
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<font size="3">Active rainwater harvesting from the rooftop, if it was allowed,
would have enabled even more positive changes to the system.
�There�s lots more.</font>
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<font size="3">Unfortunately, none of this happened, antiquated thinking
prevailed, and disaster ensued.</font>
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<font size="3">Sincerely,</font>
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<font size="3">JOHN ROBB</font>
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