Ain’t no Forrest out there
Yep x 1000 !!For fun look at Google Earth in the expansive fields just south and west of the Pantex plant, zoom in all of the way in and look closely. The signs around these fields mention something about killing you if you cross the fence. Believe it.
Anyone wanna take a guess at how this happened?
If not by natural causes, that is….
An exhaust can do this after the engine is shut down. The cat converter stays hot enough for a while to light fires.It could have been something totally innocent, sorta like the day I left my truck running for a few minutes in the back drive and the exhaust system, apparently, hit some tall weeds and set them ablaze and it wasn't even drought conditions. NOTE there was a warning about the exhaust being able to do this in the owner's manual...
Right now, it's fairly calm, but you can see the shift already starting.
(go into layers and set fire mode on)
No forest but a very large wind farm north of Amarillo.Ain’t no Forrest out there
Yes and no .very rough terrain with hills , gullies, ravines etc. This isn't the same terrain as most of Nebraska or Iowa , this is a lot of this area is impossible to navigate with anything other than a mule . It is very hard to fight fires on mules .Nope, just cows and pastureland!
I am talking about the Fritch area and the fire that effected us .Yes and no .very rough terrain with hills , gullies, ravines etc. This isn't the same terrain as most of Nebraska or Iowa , this is a lot of this area is impossible to navigate with anything other than a mule . It is very hard to fight fires on mules .
Yes and no .very rough terrain with hills , gullies, ravines etc. This isn't the same terrain as most of Nebraska or Iowa , this is a lot of this area is impossible to navigate with anything other than a mule . It is very hard to fight fires on mules .
Can they not have planes drop fire-retardant on the wildfires? Or just dump water?BON we have similar terrain here and in Nebraska, however you need to get off of the highways to see it. The DOT put the highways thru the flattest snd most boring parts of the states.
What planes??? This isn’t the west coast.Can they not have planes drop fire-retardant on the wildfires? Or just dump water?
forgot about the winds. Not sure why I could do that, given that the same system blew a bunch of trees down here in GA today. Sorry.Well, there ARE planes available for this duty and they will be flying when the winds pause tomorrow. But the winds aren't going to be calm enough to do many passes before they pick back up.
Not that many and they often have other fires that they are putting out first. The reality is out here in fly over country, and this includes Texas, when it comes to wild fires we’re screwed! We are literally on our own!Well, there ARE planes available for this duty and they will be flying when the winds pause tomorrow. But the winds aren't going to be calm enough to do many passes before they pick back up.
EVEN WORsE when they refuse to actually read the info already posted, but instead waste time and energy of everyone else by asking questions re: what is already well covered.It's a perturbance when a handful of people do most of the work on keeping these threads updated and then someone comes along and isn't happy with the info provided, but doesn't want to do any research themselves.
Also true.We have an alt news and also unexplained forums for woo type guessing.
It could have been something totally innocent, sorta like the day I left my truck running for a few minutes in the back drive and the exhaust system, apparently, hit some tall weeds and set them ablaze and it wasn't even drought conditions. NOTE there was a warning about the exhaust being able to do this in the owner's manual...
We got snow! Praise God!
Crews and assets like planes and helicopters will move in to a fire from all over the country, and at least up north, sometimes even from Canada. Thing is, when conditions are as they are in Texas, there is little they can do. Winds horrible, potential fuel situation horrible, basically unmanaged, and dried to a crisp. I've experienced it with my farm in the crosshairs of a crowning forest fire, and explosive is quite descriptive of conditions. Everywhere you turn, there's a new fire starting. Planes can help ("maybe" save a town), but helicopters especially need a very local water source from which to fill their buckets, and those are pretty few and far between in the Panhandle. Best (maybe only) help is Mother Nature taking a turn to lend a hand.What planes??? This isn’t the west coast.
All the time.Wow!!
Now that IS amazing!! God is good!!
Businesses and citizens in Amarillo are providing disaster relief. One company announced they were taking donations of water, clothing, baby formula, diapers, sanitation items etc. They ended up filling up completely two semi truck trailers all donated yesterday. Food trucks have gone to Canadian and are feeding the first responders.
Amarillo National Bank donated 1 million dollars towards relief. Farmers and ranchers are loading up hay, calf feed etc on flat bed trailers. Its like a convoy. More people are offering the use of their acreage for the livestock since fences are burned down. My faith in humanity has sky rocketed.