I drove thru Lufkin today up 69 and the smoke was thick there also. Burned the eyes and made it hard to breath.
On 6/18/2011 6:30 PM, sammie smith wrote:
Apparently we have a fire today somewhere south of Nacogdoches. Sky is smokey enough to choke you when outside and ashes are falling from the sky.--- On *Sat, 6/18/11, Gerald Livingston /<gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:From: Gerald Livingston <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [tcb] PsycoBlooie To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011, 5:14 PM 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
