everything is burning.
Sep. 4th, 2011 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireWhen I opened the front door just now, I could smell smoke in the air. Looking over the trees to the east, you can see the haze in the sky from the fire burning on the other side of I35. That one is about 200 acres now. Another round of sirens just passed by and it seems like resources are spread terribly thin. There are fires in Pflugerville, Cedar Park, the Steiner Ranch subdivision near the lake, Bastrop, everywhere. It's been happening since this morning, made worse with the high winds. One of the neighbors lost a medium size tree limb that's currently balanced precariously on the corner of the fence. Nothing was damaged and I don't think anything could come close to hitting our house. Still. It's hard to watch the trees swaying, knowing the drought renders them brittle and more prone to break than bend.
This is like some cruel, last fuck you by summer. Our 80th day of 100+ degrees, and hopefully the last as a "cold" front comes through to drop our highs into the 90s. I was almost excited about it this morning, until everything started burning. People are losing their homes right now. There's a big fire burning out off 71, in my beloved country. The wind is helping the flames jump roads. It's frightening, even though the actual fires are a few miles away. Hundreds of acres are on fire right now. It's so bad that they are using the STAR flight helicopter to carry buckets of water to the major fires in Pflugerville. All the departments are out now, spread thin with so much happening all at once.
It's really just sad and scary and there's absolutely nothing to do but hope it doesn't come nearer to us.
This is like some cruel, last fuck you by summer. Our 80th day of 100+ degrees, and hopefully the last as a "cold" front comes through to drop our highs into the 90s. I was almost excited about it this morning, until everything started burning. People are losing their homes right now. There's a big fire burning out off 71, in my beloved country. The wind is helping the flames jump roads. It's frightening, even though the actual fires are a few miles away. Hundreds of acres are on fire right now. It's so bad that they are using the STAR flight helicopter to carry buckets of water to the major fires in Pflugerville. All the departments are out now, spread thin with so much happening all at once.
It's really just sad and scary and there's absolutely nothing to do but hope it doesn't come nearer to us.
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Date: 2011-09-05 12:33 am (UTC)My thoughts are with you all, obviously. Good lord.
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Date: 2011-09-05 12:50 am (UTC)