N Texas Wildfires out of control.

[Easy Bakes 253]

High winds up to 40 MPH and dry conditions not helping efforts to contain the fires.

http://www.ketknbc.com/news/coming-tonight-noonday-firefighters-head-for-wildfires-in-north-texas

[Alejandro24 575]

Mmm... I think It is the time of this kind of events. In Coahuila there are wildfires too with the same conditions as Texas.

http://www.google.com.mx/#q=incendios+en+coahuila&hl=es&prmd=ivnsu&source=univ&tbm=nws&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=m6SrTdmgBcXhiAK47qHvDA&ved=0CDIQqAI&fp=1&cad=b

[Easy Bakes 253]

no rain for a while hasent helped matters up here at all.

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

we've had an unusually wet spring in this area, so no danger here of forest fires at the moment. The real problem comes later in the year when things are much drier. We don't have vast expanses of brush, just trees.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Economically their going to be pretty bad off with no tourists this season.

Possum Kingdom is a huge weekend attraction for this area.

[metarvo 712]

The weather has been dry and windy for quite some time, and now it is starting to get hotter. That spells fire trouble for sure. The majority of the state's counties are now under burn bans, with some areas even being placed under red flag warnings. Over 90% of Possum Kingdom has now burned up, along with some homes.

[Easy Bakes 253]

New Wild fire.Same place as the one in April.

Possum Kingdom Lake.

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Firefighters--128844848.html

very supprized there have not been more fire around here with no rain to speak of in some areas all year.

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Ugh! Looks like northern Ontario or northern Alberta. Our boreal forests have been having similar problems. Earlier this summer we had several hundred separate fires burning in the forests.

[Barbarossa 51]

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[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

If Texas is burning, Mr. Perry should think of the allegorical meaning.

"La comedia e stupenda" Leoncavallo in I Pagliacci.

[hym 358]

Now is the time to put your anti-"socialist" politicians on the spot. Gee, I wonder how long it will be before they start asking for Federal money they claim they don't want. I'm sure the east Coast is already gearing up to reap some dough (I'm looking at you, Chris Chrustybread).

Because the federal government always knows how to solve everything...

[Barbarossa 51]

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[Easy Bakes 253]

FEMA cuts are not going to help either here or in vermont.

http://articles.kwch.com/2011-08-29/fema_29943310

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

FEMA cuts are not going to help either here or in vermont.

http://articles.kwch...9/fema_29943310

Considering the effectiveness of FEMA and their past record, that outfit could be dissolved and/or replaced by some ar\me of law enforcement. It isn't federal help you need, you need a little self-help. The Lord helps those who help themselves.

Sitting around waiting for someone else to solve your problems isn't getting things done. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

And now, mother nature to the rescue. I hope this does you some good, because elsewhere there is going to be trouble. It never rains but it pours.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Probably why the forcasters are predicting high 60s for monday morning.

big storms in the gulf tend to break up the warm high pressure cells tht park themselves over texas in summer.

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Probably why the forcasters are predicting high 60s for monday morning.

big storms in the gulf tend to break up the warm high pressure cells tht park themselves over texas in summer.

The cooler air will help with the fires, but I really hope that Lee will deliver some rain to your area. You really need it, but it depends on the ground. Since they are in the north (panhandle?) that should be fairly good ground and not desert pavement. A good saturating rain will really help, but then with the denuded ground you may have to watch out for mud slides and flash floods. Oops! How's that for gloom and doom?

[Easy Bakes 253]

Probably why the forcasters are predicting high 60s for monday morning.

big storms in the gulf tend to break up the warm high pressure cells that park themselves over texas in summer.

The cooler air will help with the fires, but I really hope that Lee will deliver some rain to your area. You really need it, but it depends on the ground. Since they are in the north (panhandle?) that should be fairly good ground and not desert pavement. A good saturating rain will really help, but then with the denuded ground you may have to watch out for mud slides and flash floods. Oops! How's that for gloom and doom?

Possum Kingdom lake is in North Texas.West of the DFW area.

Texas Geography

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[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Probably why the forcasters are predicting high 60s for monday morning.

big storms in the gulf tend to break up the warm high pressure cells that park themselves over texas in summer.

The cooler air will help with the fires, but I really hope that Lee will deliver some rain to your area. You really need it, but it depends on the ground. Since they are in the north (panhandle?) that should be fairly good ground and not desert pavement. A good saturating rain will really help, but then with the denuded ground you may have to watch out for mud slides and flash floods. Oops! How's that for gloom and doom?

Possum Kingdom lake is in North Texas.West of the DFW area.

Texas Geography

Ah so. A wooded area with a lake in the middle. Hope you get a good rain there.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Not so wooded anymore

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Not so wooded anymore

Alas.

Now is the time for very careful conservation efforts once the fire is out. There might be a serious effort to repopulate the fauna as well.

In our boreal forests, once fires are put out, unless the area is wilderness, we do make reforestation efforts, but you can't replace the ecosystem that has been destroyed. Forest fires are a natural part of the ecological cycle in the boreal forsts. Some trees cannot release seed unless touched by fire.

[Easy Bakes 253]

With the long drought there might not have been be much Fauna left in the area anyway,At least outside the immediate lake shore areas were there would have been water.

The whole food chain in west Texas is failing from lack of water

At least the mosquito's have not been a problem this year,Guess thats bad news for the bats though.

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

With the long drought there might not have been be much Fauna left in the area anyway,At least outside the immediate lake shore areas were there would have been water.

The whole food chain in west Texas is failing from lack of water

At least the mosquito's have not been a problem this year,Guess thats bad news for the bats though.

That's OK. There are probably caves full of roast bats. There is a disease of bats called white-nose (a fungus) that kills them too. It has reached epidemic proportions.

[Easy Bakes 253]

With the long drought there might not have been be much Fauna left in the area anyway,At least outside the immediate lake shore areas were there would have been water.

The whole food chain in west Texas is failing from lack of water

At least the mosquito's have not been a problem this year,Guess thats bad news for the bats though.

That's OK. There are probably caves full of roast bats. There is a disease of bats called white-nose (a fungus) that kills them too. It has reached epidemic proportions.

I read about White nose last year in National Geographic

mabey the heat killed the fungus.

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

With the long drought there might not have been be much Fauna left in the area anyway,At least outside the immediate lake shore areas were there would have been water.

The whole food chain in west Texas is failing from lack of water

At least the mosquito's have not been a problem this year,Guess thats bad news for the bats though.

That's OK. There are probably caves full of roast bats. There is a disease of bats called white-nose (a fungus) that kills them too. It has reached epidemic proportions.

I read about White nose last year in National Geographic

mabey the heat killed the fungus.

There was a special report on CBC news about it. Seems that nothing had happened up to early this summer except they were trying to figure out how it is transmitted. Seems bats get it, hibernate and die immediately when they wake up.

Meanwhile, seems Lee is giving Texas a miss. My link

[Easy Bakes 253]

We still seem to be on track for a cold front to drop us into the low 60s tonight.

went to Waco today and saw about 6 places were there were grass fires along the road side.

and N of Waco there was large fire in progress around 11AM but was out by 3pm when i was driveing back.

[un1 41]

Reports from Texas says that Lee has actually made the problem worse. Since Lee isn't giving Texas much rain, he is giving them winds which are spreading the fires rapidly. So soon the US will have an area that is in a horrible drought and everything is burning and then just 300 miles away there will be epic floods.

[hamsterTK 93]

There were a lot more new fires across the state today due to a cold front bringing strong winds. Bastrop, Leon, and Colorado counties saw big ones.

There have also been multitudes of small fires which didn't do any damage caused by power lines in the wind in places like suburban Houston and College Station.

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Really too bad that Lee has turned east and is dumping all that water in places that would rather not have it. Reports on the "cold" front indicate that it wasn't cold enough, and just stirred up the air.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Really too bad that Lee has turned east and is dumping all that water in places that would rather not have it. Reports on the "cold" front indicate that it wasn't cold enough, and just stirred up the air.

Cold enough for me 78f