Texas fires

[celticdragonfly]

So I pop onto rlseiver's computer while he's out for the evening, and this is the top article on his homepage.

Grass fires all over Texas, especially in my area.

Dozens of grass fires burned across an unusually warm and windy Texas on Tuesday, destroying homes, forcing evacuations, and prompting Gov. Rick Perry to deploy state firefighters and issue a disaster declaration.

Boyd, Denton, Colleyville, Arlington, Kennedale, and Joshua form a big almost-circle around where we live. I hope everything's still there in our town when we get back.

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Last week there was a grass fire one exit down from mine, and there was a fire south of I-30 at I-35 when I left for Mom's house on Saturday. And tonight I drove down Pioneer Parkway to go to Taco Cabana and passed an area (luckily for me, quite a number of blocks south) that smelled very burned, but as it was dark I couldn't see where.

I am a wee bit nervous, since there's pretty much nothing but dry grass and trees to the west of me once you pass Lowe's, Wal-Mart, and Sams. I'm hoping they'll serve as a sort of mercantile firebreak if there's another grass fire.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Eek, I hope everything's all right. Any further news?