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Flooding, restoration remain focus after Waldo Canyon fire
Officials emphasize seeking higher ground
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Officials continue to educate residents about what to expect from impacts of the recent Waldo Canyon wildfire -- impacts that already have been seen in the past week.
People who live in west Colorado Springs, along drainage channels and near Fountain and Monument creeks are being reminded that more flash floods, mudslides and similar events will occur because the wildfire burn area no longer can absorb runoff as it once did.
"It's not a question of if we're going to have events from rain. It's when," said Jerri Marr of the U.S. Forest Service. "We want people to know that. We're not here to scare people. We just want to prepare them."
Officials emphasize the need for affected residents to seek high ground and know where they're going ahead of time.
"Relocate, not evacuate," said Lt. Brian Ritz of the Colorado Police Department.
Ritz said officials are discussing how to possibly help property owners protect their property in case of a flash flood.
"We talk about the idea of sandbags," he said. "But there may be some code issues or some other issues that come up with that. There could be issues where you sandbag your property, and now you've diverted it, and now you're threatening someone else's property who wasn't threatened originally."
Helen West, a west side resident, has lived along the 31st Street drainage channel since 1966. She said she has seen only one flash flood since then.
"It got into basements on the other side, the west side, of 31st Street," she said. "I was OK. I was on the east side, which is a little higher."
West said she hadn't given much thought to a plan of action to escape a flash flood, but she is now.
"I have gathered things together because of the fire, so I'm kind of packed up in case of a flood," she said. "I have friends who live in higher places."
Meanwhile, the Burned Area Emergency Recovery Team known as the BAER team, a national group of experts, is implementing a three-year recovery plan for the burn area. Members say they're using strategies that are recommended but have not been approved yet.
"Things like putting straw or wood mulch on the ground," said team member Marc Stamer. "It depends on the area. But even when those slopes green up for the next three, five or longer years, there still is going to be an elevated response."
Stamer says a longer-range recovery plan still is being formulated.

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So, this is the start. I woulda loved to have had this in January. Lots has happened since then. I am flunking two classes. One I can bring back by turning in some no-due- date-attached assignments, the other I missed a test in. I didnt even know we had a test. I woulda been there had it not been because I stayed up until 4 AM the night before. class was at 8. I fell asleep with all the lights on. You think you can get in bed and stay awake. But you can't. I can't. I'm pathetic. Really sucked when I went in this morning and saw the tests being handed back. :0 Counted for 25 of 200 possible points. Yay.
This whole slacker thing is because of my new job. I thought it would give me more discipline. Maybe from some other job. But this one I get to pick my own hours, I can go to work in the middle of the night, and I have unlimited access to a sweet PC workstation. Nope, nothing porn- related. Web designer/maintainer. It's great, and yet it's fucking up my life. Or, rather, I am.
Today sucked. Before today I had a nice big office to myself. Then my employer who is a professor put a buncha engineers in there with me. Like two or three. All them are kinda redneck pretty boys. One of them had a bad cough. Probably from binge drinking. They play bad rock on their speakers and talk about meaningless shit. At least I can avoid them by coming in late. But now I can't look at Katie Holmes naked on one monitor while I Dreamweave on the other. ;) At least they brought a telephone and trash can with 'em. Fuckers.
What does the wiki tag do? <wiki>let's find out!</wiki> What happened?!! Tell me, K?
I could go on for a long time, but basically here are some
good things coming up in my life:
1) sold my first ever item on ebay. waiting for the fucker to send payment.
2) got a Save the Last Dance press kit today, along with 5 amazing pictures of Julia Stiles. (there were 5 other pics in the press kit, as well)
3) getting latest Roswell episodes to watch over the weekend! w00p!
4) going to see Save the Last Dance movie for 4th and probably last time on Monday. So I sing the song of love for Julia....
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Too bad Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino didn't make their "Previews of Coming Attractions" — Rodriguez's Machete and Rob Zombie's Werewolf Women of the SS — into their "Feature Presentations" in this "parody" of a '70s Z-movie twin bill. Both get more laughs than either Rodriguez's Planet Terror or Tarantino's Death Proof. Terror draws more on Dawn of the Dead and Toxic Avenger than on anything by William Castle, with flesh-eating zombies spawned by chemical weapons terrorizing a Texas town. It consists mostly of exploding heads, bodies splattered by vehicles, and Rose McGowan with an M-16 for a prosthetic leg. Unexpected flashes of wit and black humor kept my interest. As for Tarantino, he's aging badly: he has a role in both films and looks like a cross between Dan Aykroyd and Bob Hope on a bender. Neither do his trademark affectations, trivia, and fetishism (must a woman's foot hog the foreground of every scene?) still charm, though a car chase and the come-uppance of a psycho (a lovable Kurt Russell) end the tedium on a high.
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Pulaski Technical College's Learning Support Services will offer a free workshop in time management on Sept. 22.
The workshop will take place 12-12:45 p.m. Wednesday in the Bank of America Learning Assistance Center, located on the third floor of the Campus Center. Students will learn to prioritize and organize.
For more information call Rhonda Carroll at (501) 812-2270 or email@example.com
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