Matters have just gotten more grave and more serious, ... Potentially, these fires could last into the fall, until we receive snow. We're planning for the worst of circumstances.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

If you dig a grave for others you may fall into it yourself

disingenuous at best and outrageous at worst.

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

We recognize that this is a regional resource, and its development has regional implications.