COLORADO SPRINGS — On Tuesday, June 26, I said goodbye to my house and my neighbors and started my life as a Rockrimmon refugee.
My heart was pounding as I made one last sweep through our little house in Raven Hills. I wondered if my family would ever celebrate another birthday here. I paused at the window where we saw so much wildlife in the woods outside. Where we always put up our Christmas tree.
In the garage, I stopped at the wall where we traced our kids’ profile, measuring their heights to document their growth over the years. I took one last picture of the shark mural in my youngest son’s bedroom, grabbed my oldest boy’s high school letterman’s jacket, took a photo of my daughter at Disney World and began our escape.
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Bill Vogrin is a columnist at the Gazette in Colorado Springs. His wife’s restaurant on the west side of the city was evacuated on Wednesday.
