[tcb] Re: PsycoBlooie

http://www.kfdm.com/articles/sam-43391-area-rayburn.html

This is the one up hwy 96. No updates today that I can find.

Read the story and the suspected cause and you'll understand my
hesitation about being away over the weekend of the 4th.

G2

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:27:57 -0500
Gerald Livingston <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm still trying to decide about making the drive.
> 
> That fire that Sammie is typing about is not quite between me and AR.
> It's around Hwy 69 and I travel up hwy 96. And it's moving NW so
> that's away from my path. BUT, there is another fire that's at about
> 1,000 acres now that appears to be right ON hwy 96 north of Jasper
> around Sam Rayburn Lake.
> 
> Denis, the pic came through on the list. Cool artwork. I'll post it
> somewhere too.
> http://texasvolksbus.org/psycoblooie/psycoblooie2011.jpg
> 
> Does Chad still have the annual live-band party?
> 
> Somebody find me a cute 20 ... no, make that 25 year old (so Haggerty
> will let her do some of the driving) to make the trip with me. It's
> gonna be a longer drive without using the truck to pull. More spots
> where I won't be able to hold 60+. Be sure she understands that in a
> '70 there's essentially only one bed so she'll have to sleep with the
> scary hippie. <grin>
> 
> G2 (who is still trying to wrap his head around the idea of flood
> water getting over the top of that cliff)
> 
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:17:33 -0500
> "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I hear your concerns and I feel your pain, but what about me? How
> > will I feel when you don't show up?
> > 
> > All you people, listen. I moved up here so that you poor, hot, dry,
> > huddled masses people would have a place to come cool off in the
> > lake, drink a little wine, eat some good food and blow shit up. And
> > I just can't stand it that some of you miss out.
> > 
> > It makes me sad for you, but mostly for me.
> > 
> > Hell, this will probably be my last one. I have almost died up here
> > three times. How much longer can I hold out? Somebody said that I'm
> > not dead yet because God still thinks I'm funny. Well, how long can
> > that last?
> > 
> > Gerald, put all your important papers and stuff in a metal box and
> > put that box in your bus and get up here before I pass away. If a
> > wall of forest fire comes at you, exactly what are you planning to
> > do? Piss on it? It won't help. You can be down there all running
> > around with your beard on fire, or you can come up here and have a
> > whiskey and watch it on TV.
> > 
> > P.S. I do know that the drought and fire danger is serious, but I
> > still have to make fun. I have had flooding and water damage
> > downstairs
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Gerald Livingston
> > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 5:14 PM
> > To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [tcb] PsycoBlooie
> > 
> > Not sure if I'll make it. Only part of it is lack of fuel funds. 
> > 
> > The bigger part is the fact that we are having a California/Colorado
> > fire season in SouthEast Texas. Aerial fireworks sales have been
> > banned. But we live within spitting distance of the Louisiana state
> > line and I'm just not real comfortable with the idea of being away
> > while rednecks with fireworks run loose in the tinderbox around my
> > house. 
> > 
> > There was a 50 or 60 acre burn less than 10 miles from my house last
> > weekend. Over the past 3 months we have lost several thousand acres
> > within 100 mile radius of where I live. They had to close a major
> > highway about 15 miles away when the flames got next to it and went
> > over 100 feet into the air.
> > 
> > Weather guessers are calling for decent rain next week. So far this
> > year "decent rain" has only been 10 minute knock-shit-down hard
> > thunderstorms or 3 or 4 hours of
> > "drizzle-so-slow-you-can-smoke-outside" crap that just doesn't
> > count. We need at least a full day or two of
> > "who-left-the-shower-running" rain. Medium drops coming down hard
> > enough to get stuff wet but not so hard you can see them bouncing
> > back off the ground 6".
> > 
> > Somebody needs to put a big ass overflow pipe due south from South
> > Dakota down into the lakes that make up the Sabine/Neches river
> > basin system. Send some of that stuff a little further west to help
> > us out and keep Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri a bit less wet.
> > 
> > G2

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