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Over the past 24 hours 16000 acres and 400 homes have burned all around the Austin, Texas area, which is affecting some 8 to 10 counties...including the county that I live in.
This is paticularly frightening to me and and my community as smoke and ash is hovering over us and is rather unsettling.
Since Michelle Bachmann is claiming that the hurricane and earth quake along the east coast is God telling America that we have become an obese nation from spending too much. I wonder if she'll next say that the 12 to 15 wildfires raging in Central Texas is a message to our nation that if Rick Perry is elected president that our lives will be a living hell?
Don't know if Bachmann will make such a claim...but as a native Texan...I do.
Over the past 24 hours 16000 acres and 400 homes have burned all around the Austin, Texas area, which is affecting some 8 to 10 counties...including the county that I live in.
This is paticularly frightening to me and and my community as smoke and ash is hovering over us and is rather unsettling.
Since Michelle Bachmann is claiming that the hurricane and earth quake along the east coast is God telling America that we have become an obese nation from spending too much. I wonder if she'll next say that the 12 to 15 wildfires raging in Central Texas is a message to our nation that if Rick Perry is elected president that our lives will be a living hell?
Don't know if Bachmann will make such a claim...but as a native Texan...I do.
Μολὼν λαβέ;1059777483 said:Please tell us why you don't like Perry. I don't like what he did to public education in the state and would like to understand what others who aren't just trying to bash him think. Thanks!
Over the past 24 hours 16000 acres and 400 homes have burned all around the Austin, Texas area, which is affecting some 8 to 10 counties...including the county that I live in.
This is paticularly frightening to me and and my community as smoke and ash is hovering over us and is rather unsettling.
yeah, i'm out in Liberty Hill, sitting on many, many acres of very dry brush and trees.... I can't lie and say i'm not nervous about fires.
when I smelled smoke yesterday, we put out emergency plans into motion... just in case.
God had nothing to do with the fires... he wasn't giving us a message about how horrible Perry is.
I don't generally attribute the stupidity of people to God.
one of the fires was started by a teenage boy burning love letters... several more by people BBQ'ing in open pits.. another by a homeless man smoking.
LITTLE BITTY HILL?? HOLY ****!!! People still LIVE THERE! Woot. You know Gilbert vickers and his family, how about Moe.. oh ****.. Stephens, big black guy, cute white wife... Okayk, we're talking 2 decades ago but damn, little bitty hill...
Is any of that actually confirmed?
Sarcasm and humor is lost on you, isn't it?
i'm fairly new here... been here about a year and a few months.
i'm familiar with the Stiles clan, the Muhle clan, a few Yates, a few Collins.... all good people... some are very..ahem...uhh.."simple" folks lacking in the finer points of intelligence, but good people still.
not sure what it was like 20 years ago, but i'd imagine it was much much smaller....
we even gots us a Subway resterrrant now.. makes some fiiine sammiches :lol:
i got those causes from the lips of some fire official that was quoted in the Statesman, so i'd imagine that are confirmed.
Those are good folks there, don't you be mockin them. Why the hell you living out there? Working down teh road at "the Ranch"? Or whatever they are calling Meridell now?
Thrilla, Removable and anyone else in the vicinity of the fires, I hope you'll all escape with your loved ones and possessions in tact. My thoughts are with all the people of Texas who are suffering through this disaster. Lord knows I've seen my share of disastrous fires in California. Fingers are crossed for everyone.
This year is unbelievable. The amount of land now burned in Texas is greater than size than the entire state of Connecticut, and more than 1,000 homes are gone so far. In the Magnolia area, fire came within a few hundred yards of my band's studio, and the home of our band leader. It was brought under control yesterday, but just a little while ago, it flared up again. I have many friends in the area who have been forced to evacuate, and I am praying for all of them. Earlier this year, the sister of the leader of the band I used to play for lost her home to a wild fire.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that we played a benefit for the victims of those first wild fires, and now we have more which are even larger. Texas has been in a drought for more than a year, and the long range weather forcasts predict this continuing into next year, and even beyond that. If it does, then you can look for some areas of Texas, which had been green, to become desert. Texas will be America's new Dust Bowl if a miracle doesn't happen.
"Despite a public call by Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) to pray for rain over the weekend, major wildfires continue to rage on across the state."
Fighters From 43 States Battle Far-Flung Texas Wildfires - NYTimes.com
"The fires aren't due to climate change, but the changing climate, I think, has been a contributing factor. I can't imagine that climate change hasn't had a deleterious impact," said Dave Cleaves, the climate change adviser for the U.S. Forest Service."
Drought: Fires scorch more than 1M acres of Texas, burn hundreds of homes -- 04/21/2011 -- www.eenews.net
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