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[TexasSP]

This drought and fire situation sucks. I had one yesterday that started near my house and burned 50 acres of woods and field until they got it under control. Not for sure on what caused it but it's guessed either a dry tree against a power line or a cigarette out the window. Got within 100 yards of my house. I have a retention system all around me that is extremely dry and dry fields then tons of pine trees and dry brush from the drought.

Glad to see you got back home krawlin. Don't know about you but this freaked me out more than any hurricane we have had.

The embers are still smoldering all around and we are hoping for some rain starting tomorrow. We need about a week straight to soak everything thoroughly. There was another fire yesterday about 10 miles from us as well and several small ones have popped up over the last two weeks.

[Krawlin]

Currently I'm staying at a hotel because I was evacuated again, this time a mandatory hard evacuation (last one was a soft evac). According to the sheriff's office they don't think anything in my area burned but they haven't been back in there yet to confirm. The fire jumped the highway here again yesterday and 2 places and got really out of hand, high winds to blame for that. Today the winds shifted direction and not nearly as strong as yesterday so the fire will be trying to cross where it already burned so they should be able to get it more under control. Last word on the acres burned is in the 27,000 acre neighborhood.