How awful. I was evacuated from Yellowstone park the year that it burned, and was absolutely amazed at how fast and furious the fires went, jumping from tree top to tree top. I worry for you that you will be OK. I also pray for rain for Texas. Joyce
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:32 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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
