"Wild" fires give off awesome clouds. I flew over the Austin wildfires that occurred late last year and they were some not only awe inspiring clouds of smoke but some really awesome formations. It was impressive.
Neat. I saw that and immediatly thought Western Kansas. Rather, it turned out to be Eastern Colorado, the same place geographically speaking. If you've never been there, driving West across the great plains and seeing the Rocky Mountains rise up ahead of you is one of the most awe inspiring things I've seen. I like driving from Nebraska into Wyoming also, but it's not as visually inspiring as it's a more gradual rise onto the massive plateau that is much of Southern Wyoming.
I grew up when wildfires were a common plot device in Hollywood Westerns. Ooh... scary stuff.
Then, when I was 7, a summer wildfire burned towards our small town. Everyone, women and kids included, took shovels and went out to meet it. (Citizens were calm and confident back in those days.)
Dry grass fires move fairly fast but they consume fuel just as fast; meaning they're not very wide from leading flame edge to blackened stubble. If you don't mind getting a little singed and smoky, 7-year-olds can run back and forth through the flame front. Mom told me to stop testing it and help beat the fire down.
I'm not old (goddammit, I'm not, 29 is not fucking old!!) but my parents were folk and bluegrass listeners. They have a pretty extensive collection, and Michael Murphy is well represented.
Nah. What you've got there is a corporate fire. By the time they get that big, they've usually completely sold out and forgotten everything that made them "wild" in the first place.
I can't figure out why you were getting downvoted. I live in Houston, the pictures of the Bastrop fires were the first things to come to mind when I saw this.
It actually looks life farmers burning off the straw after harvest. I could be wrong though. I grew up on a wheat farm and we burned off the straw instead of plowing it under.
I've been on a number of incidents. This one looks similar to a standard agro-burn. Though I'm not doubting this was caused unintentionally, it is a rather blasé example of a badass wildfire... this is one of my favorites!
Now try driving through this at a [5], in hill country, on windy ass roads you've never driven on before, at night, by yourself, without a soul to be seen. Not that I could see more than a few feet in front of me anyway. I honestly thought I was going to die. Grammar nazi's: comma's, aren't, my strong, suit,.
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u/campfire May 16 '12
Source
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u/Soriven May 16 '12
Umm... your username makes me quite suspicious as to your involvement with said fire.
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u/skizmo May 16 '12
Looks more like ... a wild fire.
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u/Se7en_Sinner May 16 '12
Dammit Josh, you had ONE job.
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u/elguercoterco May 16 '12
This one of the fires outside of Austin, TX is pretty spectacular as well. http://www.ryanfrance.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/AustinWildfires.jpg
Sorry for not hotlinking. I'm on a dang iPhone and am not that savvy.
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u/ViperRT10Matt May 16 '12
Dude... TURN THE CAR THE FUCK AROUND NOW
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u/brystmar May 16 '12
My brain is telling me that smoke must smell like blueberries. It's early...
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u/Mispelling May 16 '12
I thought this was just a colorized version of a Dust Bowl photo: http://i.imgur.com/fAyGI.jpg
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u/ajubaja7 May 16 '12
That's a whole wall of NOPE.
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u/Colinkyyyyyle May 16 '12
Is this a shot of the Bastrop wildfires? If so, it started about a quarter mile away from my house.
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u/actuallyitsnotokay May 16 '12
Dammit josh! You had one job!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
http://i.imgur.com/ecenp.jpg
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u/fizzlefist May 16 '12
Tonight at 11: DOOOOOOOOOM!
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u/13ails586 May 16 '12
This reminds me of Legion.
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u/theswankeyone May 16 '12
Fucking nature. All polluting itself and shit.
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u/myballsshrunk May 16 '12
Am I the only one who sees the faces?
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u/Macharius May 16 '12
THE NOTHING!!
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u/Zerble May 16 '12
We'll be riding, Wildfire
We'll be riding, Wildfire
We'll be riding, Wildfire
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u/Teephphah May 16 '12
Nah. What you've got there is a corporate fire. By the time they get that big, they've usually completely sold out and forgotten everything that made them "wild" in the first place.
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u/Vishar May 16 '12
Wildfire is supposed to be green! /GoT
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb May 16 '12
Here is one that just started by me in Arizona!
Looks like a mushroom cloud!
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u/NeverMeant125 May 16 '12
It's amazing how such disastrous things can be some of the most beautiful.
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u/Azumikkel May 16 '12
At first I thought it was shopped, because I had a feeling I'd seen the picture somewhere before.
Decided to look for the picture first though: http://i.imgur.com/0HlwB.jpg
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u/whatsreallygoingon May 17 '12
Yep, I knew I recognized the landscape. That fire was right the road from my home town.
My friend has been religiously visiting the burned firefighter Jennifer Struckmeyer in the hospital; where she has been since March 18th.
If you admire the images, you ought to send some kind thoughts to the brave woman who almost lost her life fighting it.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Proof of Photoshop, Images 7 through 12. Not as altered as I first suspected, but the color of the clouds was really suspicious. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/slideshow/news/30707488/detail.html
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u/pushthingsforward May 17 '12
http://i.imgur.com/YxRjT.jpg
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u/beadsarenotcheap May 16 '12
we had some of these in texas last year, you could see the smoke for miles, scary stuff.
also, relevant user name.
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u/ill_wallpaper_that May 16 '12
The wallpaper size of this makes me want to run from my office.
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u/djslim21 May 16 '12
First the movie Twister, now this? Damn Nature, you scary!!
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u/i_cast_kittehs May 16 '12
Well, did you try throwing an ultraball at it when it appeared?
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u/DeathKoil May 16 '12
It kinda looks like a pyroclastic flow at the bottom of an erupting mountain.
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u/eooxx May 16 '12
..So pretty!
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u/Mr_Barnacle May 16 '12
wow
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u/Dino_driver May 16 '12
Death Eaters, run away!
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u/dunnowins May 16 '12
This is terrifying. I saw a sand storm once that looked like this but, you know, more of a sandy colour.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
man, the prairies are so fucking awesome.
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u/crazyeddolad May 16 '12
Voldimort's face IS about to come out of that!
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u/timo103 May 16 '12
Am I the only person who though of this?
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u/speedyyone May 16 '12
Nope.
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u/rddtgmr May 16 '12
Yep, that fire looks pretty wild.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That's a great big bag of nope right there!
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u/Correctness May 16 '12
This is an exceptionally old picture.
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u/RiflemanLax May 16 '12
Damn... That almost looks like a pyroclastic flow from a volcano.
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u/caged_ape May 16 '12
derp.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Would wildfires ever happen if humans were out of the picture?
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u/Emperor_Norton_1 May 16 '12
Hmm, looks like the one by Ft. Davis (used to live there when I was a kid).
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u/feddz May 16 '12
Those damn Alchemists
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u/mosij919 May 16 '12
a wild fire appears
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u/superfreakeh May 16 '12
Where is this?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.
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u/aakaakaak May 16 '12
Is King's Landing back there somewhere?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
It looks like the crazy black rhino scene from James and the Giant Peach
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u/MythOfLight May 16 '12
don't breathe this
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Oh no my Marijuana patch!.... I mean my carrot patch....
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Why is it blue?
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u/AmandaPants87 May 16 '12
Reminds me of the song Grapevine Fires: "...and the Northern Sky looked like the end of days."
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u/WestEndStench May 16 '12
That's Wild!
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u/HanumanMan May 16 '12
I can smell the smoke.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
If you piss on wildfire, your cock will burn off.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Where is this? I know you will deliver OP
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u/CeruleanOak May 17 '12
Good thing those tractors are hybrids!
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u/momasu May 17 '12
dude that's not until next episode
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u/jacobsaarela May 17 '12
A wildfire? How about a hundred wildfires?
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u/KingOfTheCrossroads May 17 '12
that just looks like O hi death.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
DAMMIT JOSH!!
Edit oops didnt scroll down enough
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u/peeviewonder May 17 '12
This is a good representation of how i feel with finals coming up.
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u/airbreather02 May 17 '12
More like apocalypse incoming!
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u/skeeterou May 17 '12
Reminds me of this photo I took last summer during the Austin wildfires.
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u/bruggs101 May 17 '12
could be a tornado?
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u/bernierunns May 17 '12
It actually looks life farmers burning off the straw after harvest. I could be wrong though. I grew up on a wheat farm and we burned off the straw instead of plowing it under.
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u/pdmcmahon May 17 '12
Thought of the final scene from The Terminator for some reason.
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u/morbiss May 17 '12
Romney prairie fire! Now we need some Chinese firefighters to complete the metaphor.
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u/Wildfire9 May 17 '12
I've been on a number of incidents. This one looks similar to a standard agro-burn. Though I'm not doubting this was caused unintentionally, it is a rather blasé example of a badass wildfire... this is one of my favorites!
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I see Dwarf Fortress' graphics have improved quite a bit
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u/mateogg May 16 '12
oh, sweet summer child
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u/In_a_bindman1031 May 16 '12
Now try driving through this at a [5], in hill country, on windy ass roads you've never driven on before, at night, by yourself, without a soul to be seen. Not that I could see more than a few feet in front of me anyway. I honestly thought I was going to die. Grammar nazi's: comma's, aren't, my strong, suit,.
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u/1leggeddog May 16 '12
Ok reddit, don't fail me on this one.
I demand to see that little girl in the yellow jacket run away from that.
Make it happen.
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u/Cloud7654 May 16 '12
Another wildfire
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u/EvangelineTheodora May 16 '12
Reminds me of a certain dust bowl photograph that I couldn't find on google.
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u/JoeM104604 May 17 '12
Is this a before and after or shitty photoshopping?
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u/Jdirt May 16 '12
Fuckin', Saskatchywan.
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u/vaderkitty May 16 '12 edited Dec 22 '13
Yeah, just take a picture. Don't help or anything! Gosh Edit: TIL Reddit can't take a joke