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So Texas is on fire, I guess
Henroid
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Tuesday morning when I was heading out to work I saw what looked like fog. Opening the door, it smelled like smoke. And the cloud-cover I thought was over us was actually smoke plumes. It was all over the town and it was from another town 30 miles away or so that caught fire on Monday, but from what a coworker told me it was just open grass area and not like, the actual town. All the smoke was gone by the early afternoon.
Today, just now actually, my mother gives me this call and is in like some goddamn frenzy about how I need to pack things up and evacuate, because she's just become aware of the fires. What triggered this for her is another county south of us getting evacuated, portions of at least. She's huge into panicking and worrying (if it rains, she asks me if it has flooded). I mean, fires are scary and all and I'm keeping alert, but we're not in any danger just yet. Oh and then she managed to tie it into politics because she's a goddamn nut.
So yeah. Anyone ever get evacuated due to fire threat before? How obvious does it seem it's gonna happen?
Today, just now actually, my mother gives me this call and is in like some goddamn frenzy about how I need to pack things up and evacuate, because she's just become aware of the fires. What triggered this for her is another county south of us getting evacuated, portions of at least. She's huge into panicking and worrying (if it rains, she asks me if it has flooded). I mean, fires are scary and all and I'm keeping alert, but we're not in any danger just yet. Oh and then she managed to tie it into politics because she's a goddamn nut.
So yeah. Anyone ever get evacuated due to fire threat before? How obvious does it seem it's gonna happen?
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the danger is wind shift. A fire can seem not too threatening but if the wind swings around or picks up then suddenly you've got almost no time to get out.
Best thing to do is pay attention to whatever official structures are in place for monitoring fire danger and if they start recommending that people leave then get the fuck out asap.
You can stay and try to fight it or save your property, but I'm not going to recommend that on a public board because you need to know what you're doing and it's hella dangerous.
But seriously, fires can turn very quickly and travel at ridiculous speed so keep a good eye out for any warnings and then bolt asap.
That's the thing. I'm a few miles out from the city limits in rural hell. There's a fire station about 3 minutes down the road from me (a straight shot; if they come this way, they literally come up on my house first). We're too far out from the 'city' to hear the warning sirens (I dunno if those get used for fires), and the police force of Tyler, TX has a stick up their ass about us rural people calling them for anything. "YOU HAVE TO CALL COUNTY POLICE LEAVE US ALONE."
I don't know how america deals with these things but back home you can monitor the situation online basically the whole time, and radio and television keep you updated really frequently.
Radio on though, yeah.
I mean, who did you think Rick Perry was praying to?
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Hi5
I am too close to the city (which is mostly fire resistant) to be affected, but some further out towns were destroyed.
It's kind of weird that a town I have been to just isn't there anymore.
nonsense, it's just a simple cleansing fire
Is that true to some extent? (That funding was cut, not the amount)
Obama, knowing this, decided to exploit his major weakness early by sending FEMA to set the wildfires.
Request that the President grant a disaster declaration so money from the federal Government can be brought in to fight this stuff
The answer to these problems is to pray and secede from the union
The underclasses are starting to get desperate. Your turn.
I'm not exaggerating the amount
In all sarcasm, apparently it is OK to mess with Texas.
Dang
I looked it up a little bit ago and I'm really disappointed and dumbfounded. And then he has the nerve to ask for FEMA's help. I mean, we do need FEMA's help, but even he has to realize he's not looking so hot right now.
Doesn't seem that they're lacking for help if volunteers are being turned away or re-routed into disaster aid services:
http://www.gonzalescannon.com/node/6410