Fire Wildfire Amarillo area Texas 200,000 acres ablaze

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Voortrekker

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From my tablet and bad streaming. I am in Amarillo and the smoke is thick. Several towns have been evacuated, US 287 closed, I 40 closed. Canadian, Texas evacuated.

200,000 acres, cold winds approaching, I hope I do not have to evacuate from this truck stop. Mitch's BBQ brisket sounds good about now.
 
feralferret

feralferret

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Unfortunately this happens from time to time in he Texas Panhandle. I lived in or near Amarillo for over 40 years before moving to Missouri. I've watched ranchers drive cattle through a barbed wire fence into a neighboring plowed field because there was no time to cut the fence to escape the fire. I worked in radio and television there and helped cover these types of events.

Growing up, I used a hose or wet burlap bags to protect our house from grass fires on multiple occasions.
 
Babs

Babs

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Wildland fires are so frightening. We have our share here also. We keep a travel trailer just so that we have something to load our important things and papers in, in case of evacuation.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
I'm in central Iowa, we're back under a Red Flag warning until late tomorrow night... There's like four main roads out of town, so the thought of a wild fire hitting us is incredibly worrying... population 60K not inlcuding the 3oK+ students at the university.
 
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