swalker
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- Joined
- Dec 11, 2014
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- 07/2014
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- CO
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- Vail
Happy New Year to everyone.
I am sorry to read of the recent difficulties some are facing, especially those who have been exposed to covid or have missed out on family gatherings due to covid.
We have been isolating here. Covid has taken off and the infection rate has exploded. Before last week, the greatest number of new cases in a day was 71 (in September 2021). Starting last week, we have had 2 days with over 300 new cases, 3 days with over 200 new cases, and another 3 days with over 100 new cases. In the last two weeks we have had just under 2,000 new cases for our county, which only has a population of about 54,000 people. In other words, almost 4 percent of the residents of our county have come down with covid in the last two weeks. Since Covid started, over 20% of our county residents have had Covid, so 4% in 2 weeks is a huge jump.
Those numbers only represent the residents of our county. I live in a resort area and we have many visitors this time of year. For example, my town normally has a population of about 5,000 people. Over Christmas, our population swells to about 50,000 if you count all the overnight visitors. So, there are undoubtedly many more cases of covid than the figures above indicate.
In other news, many may be aware of the terrible fires in Boulder county, which is about 100 miles to the east of us and just north of Denver. When a major storm comes in from the west, the Denver area (the Front Range) can get very high winds, sometimes exceeding 100 miles per hour. Yesterday, there were gusts of up to 110 miles per hour with sustained winds of 50 miles per hour. These high winds apparently damaged power lines which sparked and ignited the dry brush in the area. The resulting fires burned through the towns of Superior and Louisville, destroying over 600 homes and many commercial buildings yesterday.
The fires also damaged some of the energy infrastructure, which caused for rolling blackouts throughout the state and especially in the mountains near where we live. We received an alert about 9:00 PM last night telling us to prepare for rolling blackouts.
We have backup power for the bipap, but not for the other medical equipment I need (hospital bed, cough assist, etc.). We scurried a bit to make sure we had appropriate backups power ready to go, but turned out to not need it, as they never cut off power to our house. Still, it made for a bit of a tense night waiting for the power to go out.
We had a great Christmas and celebrated our 37th anniversary this week.
Steve
I am sorry to read of the recent difficulties some are facing, especially those who have been exposed to covid or have missed out on family gatherings due to covid.
We have been isolating here. Covid has taken off and the infection rate has exploded. Before last week, the greatest number of new cases in a day was 71 (in September 2021). Starting last week, we have had 2 days with over 300 new cases, 3 days with over 200 new cases, and another 3 days with over 100 new cases. In the last two weeks we have had just under 2,000 new cases for our county, which only has a population of about 54,000 people. In other words, almost 4 percent of the residents of our county have come down with covid in the last two weeks. Since Covid started, over 20% of our county residents have had Covid, so 4% in 2 weeks is a huge jump.
Those numbers only represent the residents of our county. I live in a resort area and we have many visitors this time of year. For example, my town normally has a population of about 5,000 people. Over Christmas, our population swells to about 50,000 if you count all the overnight visitors. So, there are undoubtedly many more cases of covid than the figures above indicate.
In other news, many may be aware of the terrible fires in Boulder county, which is about 100 miles to the east of us and just north of Denver. When a major storm comes in from the west, the Denver area (the Front Range) can get very high winds, sometimes exceeding 100 miles per hour. Yesterday, there were gusts of up to 110 miles per hour with sustained winds of 50 miles per hour. These high winds apparently damaged power lines which sparked and ignited the dry brush in the area. The resulting fires burned through the towns of Superior and Louisville, destroying over 600 homes and many commercial buildings yesterday.
The fires also damaged some of the energy infrastructure, which caused for rolling blackouts throughout the state and especially in the mountains near where we live. We received an alert about 9:00 PM last night telling us to prepare for rolling blackouts.
We have backup power for the bipap, but not for the other medical equipment I need (hospital bed, cough assist, etc.). We scurried a bit to make sure we had appropriate backups power ready to go, but turned out to not need it, as they never cut off power to our house. Still, it made for a bit of a tense night waiting for the power to go out.
We had a great Christmas and celebrated our 37th anniversary this week.
Steve
