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Wildfires Around Austin, Texas Region

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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.
 
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Clearly God wants you to throw homosexuals and illegal Mexicans into the fire to put it out.

In all seriousness, stay safe, my thoughts go out to the Texans.
 
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.

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.

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.

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.
 
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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!

Sarcasm and humor is lost on you, isn't it?
 
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.

It IS most unsettling.
If you're forced out of your home, and have no where else to go, PM me, I'm jsut down the road in San Antonio, I got a spare room and can put you up for a night or two if worst case occurs.


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.[/QUOTE]

Since she said it as a joke, I'm assuming you are also positing this as a joke.
 
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.

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...



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.

Is any of that actually confirmed?
 
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?

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.
 
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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?
 
gettin' mighty sporting 'round here with these fires...

just ran 5 cases of drinking water and some sandwiches down to the firefighters handing the fire in Leander, and these guys look tuckered out.
so far, the fires that are close are to me are moving away from me... which is good, 'cuz it's about a 1/2 mile away.
luckily, they aren't as severe as the fire scorching Bastrop... that one is a doozy... 25,000 acres and hundreds of homes burned.
 
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?

yeah, they are good folks... but i won't stop mocking them, i wouldn't be me if I did that:lol:

i'm retired.. don't work anywhere.
i moved out here because i found the amount of land i was looking for at the right price. i'm setting up a sort of family commune for my family
 
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.
 
"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
 
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.

Thanks for your concern. Fires are 12 miles from us, but we have smoke and some heavier ash fragments.

Just dropped off an SUV load of diapers, baby food, juices, etc...as requested by area shelter. As long as things don't move any closer to us we will try to help victims any way possible.

It's very bad in so many areas (about 5 adjoining counties) as thrills will attest.

Thanks again...
 
Yes, so many fires in so many different areas. I hope you all are hosing down your roofs and perimeters just in case. I keep reading about the terrible winds.
 
To any an all those that are in harms way because of these fires, you have my prayers and sincere hope that you all are safe and that your property is saved from any harm.
 
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.
 
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.


I am so very, very sorry. :(
 
We've got guys from Fort Worth and Dallas fire departments coming down to help in CenTex, and I hear whispers that some of our surrounding states are trying to see who they can spare to come down and provide our guys with some relief.

It warms me to see so many people stepping up to help out through donations, volunteer time, spreading the word on needs, etc. This has been a terrible year for wildfires, but we'll rally.
 
Residents Return After Highway 211 Brush Fire - San Antonio & Texas News Story - KSAT San Antonio

THIS forced my wife and I, along with hundreds of others to flee.

I was asleep at 1300 Friday, when my wife who works out here at the TRP came home. I had left my phone up in the front, on vibrate. "We have to evacuate NOW"

I got up, looked out my front door... and we packed the essentials, some clothes, very little else and bailed. That story though, is inaccurate. They just let us home at 1915 Saturday evening, and to make matters worse, they had closed the Red Cross shelters LAST NIGHT, even though the 80 some odd tennet's here at the TRP were unable to return home.

The wife and I stayed with Family, and it was a bit scary. I'll post pics I took later after I've had some time to relax, at home. The important bits:

No homes lost, no lives lost... and we're home in time for some FOOTBALL.

http://www.woai.com/news/local/stor...-County-contained/-ZWT5GFnfE2yziqLmZxyMA.cspx

http://www.woai.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=2832224
 
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I'm glad your home was spared, and your loved ones... furred and unfurred... are safe.
 
"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

George Bush Park, here in Houston, burned to the ground the other day. 1,500 acres gone, but no homes lost. Perry can stop praying any time now. :mrgreen:
 
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