are you close to the fires?

Smokin'

Fires came within a mile of Tanner's house..Jerry's son.

My feet are hot ... and stink a little!

what are we talking about here Joe? wildfires or you burning?

Heat ... it's part of Texas!

in...

BASTROP, Texas (AP) — One of the most devastating wildfire outbreaks in Texas history left more than 1,000 homes in ruins Tuesday and stretched the state's firefighting ranks to the limit, confronting Gov. Rick Perry with a major disaster at home just as the GOP presidential contest heats up.

More than 180 fires have erupted in the past week across the rain-starved Lone Star State, and nearly 600 of the homes destroyed since then were lost in one catastrophic blaze in and around Bastrop, near Austin, that raged out of control Tuesday for a third day.

Whipped into an inferno by Tropical Storm Lee's winds over the weekend, the blaze burned at least 40 square miles, forced the evacuation of thousands and killed at least two people, bringing the overall death toll from the outbreak to at least four.

"We lost everything," said Willie Clements, whose two-story colonial home in a neighborhood near Bastrop was reduced to a heap of metal roofing and ash. A picket fence was melted. Some goats and turkeys survived, but about 20 chickens and ducks were burned to death in a coop that went up in flames.

Read more: http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Texas-wildfires-destroy-more-than-1-000-homes-2155810.php#ixzz1XDhpqpmO

Thank you for sharing that..sadness.

I took a tour of Brazos State Park today. It is located nearby in one of the wettest parts of the Texas coast. The park has half a dozen lakes and hundreds of alligators.

Most of the lakes were dry. The gators were gone. The deepest lake appeared to have dropped about fifteen feet. The trees were starting to die.

The magnitude of the drought and wildfires in Texas this year is beyond description. You really don't "get it" unless you see it and if you see it, it is hard to believe.

It is sad.

It breaks your heart.

have had to start over, not that way...

Me too....but so many people here are having to start over...just like in the Northeast with all the flooding, tornadoes...it's been a bad year for everyone.

That's where I pet my very first alligator! This is SAD!

I'm betting that the lake I live on has really gone down these last two weeks.

It might have come up. You aren't there to boil it away!

This whole world is NOT as it has been,,,nor is IT getting any better in feeling we have no worries,,,,Mother Nature and this globe we're on is going through a VERY BAD mid-life crisis,,,and we can all,,just watch it as its flow and its energies all effects our lives here..

May God keep us all safe from harm and help all thoughs affected with these fires to be healthy and strong through these times there spent,,and may He help them find peace and love to once again embrace all that they once lived.....

I feel so helpless,,as more and more,,just keeps on happening around the world...

Maybe it's Armageddon.