Monster wildfires are scorching Texas.
Today, a wildfire burning near Austin killed 2 people and destroyed about 300 homes. This particular wildfire is advancing across parched ranch land, unchecked, on a 16 mile front. So far this fire has burned 17,500 acres.
Texas is in the midst of the worst drought since the 1950s.
So far, during this bad bout of wildfires I have yet to smell the burn of a single fire. The smoke from the Possum Kingdom Lake fires, burning to the west of my location, has not reached my olfactory senses.
Several years ago we had a bad wildfire outbreak in North Texas. I remember getting quite familiar with that acrid odor.
I recollect driving back to the D/FW Metroplex from the east and wondering what the strange black wall was that seemed to be advancing on D/FW.
It was the smoke from a massive wildfire.
I have never seen these parts of the planet as parched as they are right now. I've never seen the Tandy Hills looking like a tinderbox, like it is right now.
I suspect before we finally get some fire damping precipitation we are going to have a bad wildfire too close to the D/FW Metroplex, generating a wall of smoke and that awful acrid odor I really don't want to be smelling.
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My sister lives in Cedar Park, just north of Austin. The neighborhood just 4 miles up the road evacuated. She think they are safe. I sure hope so.
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