This landscape should be covered with snow in December, but that’s not blowing snow, it’s dry ash from the Lee Fire burn scar southwest of Meeker. When the ash settles, it drifts like sand, further complicating recovery efforts and warning of additional flooding and debris flows in the future. KATHLEEN KELLEY PHOTO
RBC | It wasn’t the Christmas message Rio Blanco County were hoping for.
County officials learned Sunday, Dec. 21, that the request for Federal…