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<br /> <br />OIVAI E <br />.,~~ n ~, <br />e _ .. .~ ; <br />and admits he lost. "I don'; mind people <br />moving to Colorado," sa}'; the \\'i;consin <br />native. "The ques-,ion is, how do tee aaom- <br />modate them? Nith suburb after Windless <br />suburb? <br />"I've seen Denver metastasize all the <br />way up to Boulder and increasingly down <br />to Colorado Springs. \Ve're growing a Los <br />Angeles of the Rookie=_ right here. 'n erd!ess <br />strip city, and we're doing it kno ~~~ ingl}• <br />ICnotvingly"' <br />The "knoa•inglys" explode like land mores <br />on the desk under his fist, and the shrapnel <br />finds me. I am one of those nett•comers, as <br />are more than half the people quoted in this <br />story. A4anc of us came to Colorado seeking <br />mountain;, open space, clean air. blue sk} I <br />didn't give much thought to the i.^.dispen;ablc <br />element-u atcr. <br />90 <br />FtnS-r t.essov for transplants is that tva- <br />i ter is wealth; the Front Range receives <br />i only about 1: inches of precipitation a <br />year. John Afshar, a fireman, and his <br />l family woke up one winter morning in <br />l9S" in their home in Braley Acres, south of <br />Chatfield Resert•oir in Douglas County, to <br />discover that his account was overdratvn- <br />h:s tt•ell F.ad dried up. <br />\Vith no water, he had no heat from his <br />gas-fired water-heating system. His breath <br />condensed and froze on his mustache. His <br />:•. iic Lisa's eyelashes (roze..4fshar began <br />schlepping [ive-gallon buckets in ltis pickup <br />:rpm tap; at the reservoir. In the morning <br />the family had to break ice in the buckets. <br />"It «'as the winter from hell," Itis mother, <br />\~alcrie. remembers. <br />Afshar spent S1i,000 drilling a new well, <br />:1'atimta! Gaograpleic, A'ovcutber 1996 <br />