YNN.COM said 500 damaged homes. The 500 is homes burned to the groune !!!! -----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >Sent: Sep 6, 2011 5:32 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [VFB] Central Texas burning > >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
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