Category: fire
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Fires
To start with an update on the fires in the area.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/15/news/state/20-hardin-fire_g.txt">Fire sparks evacuation near Waco</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/15/news/state/35-general-fires.txt">Crews make gains on Bundy Railroad, Heights fires</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/15/news/state/30-ashland-update.txt">Fire south of Ashland grows to 6,000 acres</a><br />n<br />nIn this last article I will point out at the end of the story is how…
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Unbelivable
<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 110px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smokie07132006.jpg'><img width='110' height='82' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smokie07132006.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Pillar of smoke from the Pine Ridge fire.</div></div>I have been watching the smoke all day from the Hardin area. It's over 90 degrees and the wind has been blowing strong all day around 20 mph so it's getting worse and…
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Can You Say Dry
Oh is it dry. I don't know when the last time it rained around here was, but it was too long ago. The fire danger is very highg and I am concerned about it. I see there is a Red Flag Warning out for my area so I will worry myself sick today over the…
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Horrible
The recent <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WILDFIRES?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">fires in Texas</a> are really scary for more than man. I hear about them and I think about the poor animals caught in these things.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.amarillo.com/stories/031406/new_4214034.shtml">Cattle ranchers describe 'worst nightmare' </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Ranchers saw the end of their world Monday.<br />n<br />nDead cattle mottled the landscape a day after winds…
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Weather
I've been complaining about the unusually warm temperatures we have been having the past couple of weeks and while I stand by my complaints, it could be worse. Look at what is going on in the weather all over our country.<br />n<br />nWe have <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010201531.html">excessive rain and flooding in northern California</a>, severe drought and…