The oil painting shared above is titled ‘Coalbrookdale by Night’, as rendered by British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg in 1801. The record high temperature for August here in Pagosa Springs happened in 1940, with a temperature of 95 degrees. 10,000 years ago, the Sabretooth Cats were lying around acting like nothing was amiss. When you see the Sabre-Tooth Cats in museums, they are usually displayed as if they are about to bite something. But one popular theory is that their food supply — typically, large herbivores like mammoths and ground sloths — began disappearing about 10,000 years ago, and the Sabre-Tooth Cats soon followed.