Texas friends

[FPettijohn]

I posted this in the 6. 7 forum also

I hope that you and your property have been spared the drought and fires!!! Stay safe.

Fred

 

[BGlidewell]

I have cracks in my yard that look like something that borders Arizona and Nevada and trees that have died but no fires. Thanks for the kind words!

 

[RustyJC]

The Montgomery county fire is probably 30 miles north of us, but we're OK so far. Thanks for the kind thoughts. I hope everyone will remember those as well who have lost all their material possessions and others who have lost their lives.



Rusty

 

[Bill Stockard]

We can look out our windows and see the huge smoke plumes rising high in the atmosphere and across the horizon from three big forest fires, one to the east, one to the southwest, and one to the northwest, but we are not in danger from the fires. The closest fire is about 20 miles away. We live on a hill in the middle of an open 35 acre pasture that is mowed for hay. This year, because of the drought, there was only one cutting of hay in early summer and the grass remains very short. There is forest on two sides of our place; however, it's far enough away that it shouldn't be a problem and we have no trees close to our house and shop building. Our house has a metal roof with no exposed exterior wood, the shop building is all steel, and there are enough concrete sidewalks and driveways to keep any burning grass away direct contact with the buildings.



Bill

 

[Grizzly]

Texas friends I feel your pain. We're in the same boat in New Mexico. We too are going through the worst drought of record in some parts and we have had record big fires.



Temperatures are now cooling and we are getting small amounts of rain almost every day. Our prayers are being answered and I also play for Texas.

 

[Bill Stockard]

We took this photo of one of the forest fires on the way home from Mt Pleasant last Monday, Sept. 5th. It's about 20 miles away.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Looks scary to me. I dont know how many time's we watched Cajon Pass burn up in So Calif. But you never get use to it. Gee Bill turn on the A/C it even looks hot in the Pic.

 

[Bill Stockard]

Looks scary to me. I dont know how many time's we watched Cajon Pass burn up in So Calif. But you never get use to it. Gee Bill turn on the A/C it even looks hot in the Pic.

The A/C was on, but it wasn't too bad outside. The high temperature was 87 degrees that day according to my handy-dandy weather station record... a good 20 degrees cooler than the months of June, July, August, and the first few days of September. Our last rain of any consequence was a storm on June 28th that was a little over an inch of rain. We've received a few little showers since then but none of them were much over a tenth of an inch. This has been the summer from hell...



Bill

 

[RustyJC]

Here's the Bastrop fire as seen from Texas 71.



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Rusty

 

[Ram4Sam]

Looks scary to me. I dont know how many time's we watched Cajon Pass burn up in So Calif. But you never get use to it. Gee Bill turn on the A/C it even looks hot in the Pic.

That hasn't changed. It has had two pretty good sized burns in the last two weeks.



Best of luck to all of you in Texas.



Sam

 

[Bill Stockard]

We live about three miles due east of the Mt. Pleasant airport. There have been three Forest Service fire fighting helicopters temporairly stationed there for the last couple of months. We've seen them going back and forth a couple of times each day to refuel when fighting forest fires in the northeast Texas area. We haven't seen them for about a week, but today one has been back this afternoon to refuel.



Bill

 

[BIGNASTY]

As big and bad as your fires are im sure that they are flying all day. Sometimes they have mobil refuel trucks that meet them as not to waste flight time to and from the airstrip and can spend more time on the fire. We use to take fuel to the refuel trucks if that makes sense