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Red Kittie Kat
09-09-2011, 07:54 PM
With this lack of rain Texas is really in peril right now.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/2cae19a2.jpg
The Texas Forest Service is reporting that a total of 1,626 homes have been destroyed by wildfires across Texas in the past seven days. 1,386 of these destroyed homes were from the Bastrop fire. The other 240 destroyed homes are from other fires raging across Texas. The areas hardest hit at this time are near Austin, near Houston, and in northeast Texas. Twenty new wildfires were reported yesterday. These new fires cover approximately 1,422 acres. There are currently 126,844 acres burning across the state of Texas.
http://www.texasgopvote.com/restore-families/community/citizen-patriot-response-update-texas-wildfires-and-shelter-003275
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/09/texas.fires/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/09/us-texas-wildfires-idUSTRE78856F20110909
Bladez
09-09-2011, 07:58 PM
wow! Epic! and tragic! Scary stuff to all those who have a connection!
KitchWitch
09-09-2011, 08:00 PM
Oh that sucks.
Virgo Nightingale
09-09-2011, 08:04 PM
I would love to donate some of the rain we've been having. They need it, we've had way too much.
Wow that is really crazy! Living in NY my whole life I can't imagine what that's even close to being like!
Obsidian86
09-09-2011, 08:11 PM
Whoa, four fires in my area? Maybe I would watch the news more
Red Kittie Kat
09-09-2011, 08:14 PM
I was down in Palacios ... the bottom of the map ... its flat and dry ... but that's the majority of Texas .. they are really having a hard time getting it under control.
all our folks down that way please be aware and take care of yourselves ♥
Craig B
09-09-2011, 08:48 PM
I'm lucky no closer than a 100 or so miles form any of it, but it still sucks. We need rain badly. B A D L Y!!!
Red Kittie Kat
09-09-2011, 09:22 PM
I wish we could send ours ... we are all but floating away :(
disneyhippie
09-10-2011, 09:12 PM
You can have some of our rain too, if only I could get it to you
PrintDriver
09-11-2011, 12:05 AM
Geez, I have an important vendor in Temple, TX.... Yikes!
You all take care down there.
Craig B
09-12-2011, 03:42 PM
Oh, and RKK, the majority of Texas isn't flat and dry. It's actually quite diverse, being so large.
Red Kittie Kat
09-12-2011, 08:02 PM
Sorry for the generalization .. for all of what I saw it was ;)
Craig B
09-12-2011, 08:13 PM
East Texas is dense forests, of course out west towards Big Bend is mountainous (albeit dry), of course we have the hill country in the middle, coastal area, etc.
:)
Red Kittie Kat
09-12-2011, 08:33 PM
I must have been in a different part of East Texas lol .. there were clumps of trees there and there ... but I really didn't see any dense forestry. I did the Houston to Palacios route more times than I care to mention .. maybe I'm trying to block it all out :D
Here's a pic my buddy sent me from Bastrop:
http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n527/Nando914/304776_1966177395366_1270843273_1714122_1160290851 _n.jpg
Scary stuff.
Audentia
09-12-2011, 09:52 PM
WOW.
that is epic.
I'd be running to that is for sure.
Obsidian86
09-12-2011, 10:10 PM
I must have been in a different part of East Texas lol .. there were clumps of trees there and there ... but I really didn't see any dense forestry. I did the Houston to Palacios route more times than I care to mention .. maybe I'm trying to block it all out :D
Just north of Houston (North east) there is quite a lot of forest covered area. I know if a fire started near where I live, I would die.
The thing I find odd is that no one I know is really concerned with the fires. Even the customers we have who live in the direct path of it all are like "eh whatever", business as usual.
artistsdad
09-12-2011, 11:00 PM
More info on the effect on folks out there...
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/drought/story/2011-09-12/texas-drought-Dust-Bowl-ranchers/50373618/1
It's ugly.
RKK--your comment about sending out your extra water is being discussed more and more by folks. Problem is, nobody can figure out how to make economically feasible.
There's such a need for hay for livestock, the areas that had a decent corn crop are baling the cornstalks to use for feed, along with the normal hay...
artistsdad
09-12-2011, 11:09 PM
Had a relative from TX send me this link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhJeDYQVtdQ). Wow!! Scary fast.
Thankfully, they're in the pineywoods area of the state and are fairly normal on moisture. They "think" they're fairly safe.