It's not unusual to get wildfires in Texas, and most can be controlled fairly quickly, but what we've got going on now is almost uncontrollable. Austin has 12% humidity. Here in Waco, it's 22% And up until today the winds have been 30-40 mph Bastop, Texas has lost 500 homes, two dead and 50,000 acres burned and so far they haven't found a way to stop it. Bastrop is in the "lost pines" of Texas and remind me of the western Crown Fires. We're not supposed to get crown fires in the South, but the combination of heat, wind low humidity and pines has turned ours into crown fires. I just sawa video of the fire jumping from the base of a pine tree to the crown and then travelling with ths speed of the wind. Helicoppters dropping water, Forest service dropping fire retardent, nothing seems to work.
News folks said there were videos of the fire jumping the Colorado River. I don't doubt it. With the low humidity, one guy in Oak Hill started a fire with his lawnmower while cutting his lawn. If you want to see some of the footage click on WWW.YNN.COM JIMMY D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
