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Thread ID: 120380	2011-09-06 08:58:00	Hey Joe	gary67 (56)	PC World Chat

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1229103	2011-09-06 08:58:00	Hey SJ you been down to Texas with your fire eating act? here (www.bbc.co.uk) :horrified	gary67 (56)
1229104	2011-09-07 04:08:00	Nah - it gives me indigestion . They've lost about 1,000 homes now if the tally's right and no containment in sight as of yet . Perry stopped stumping the Republican debates and went home to keep the Democrats from calling him a deserter to his state (Texas) where he is still a seated member of Congreƒƒ . Pretty sure Texas is getting hurt bad - severe drought and fires and dust bowl winds driving all the topsoil away . Maybe they ran over a witch - dunnow . 'Tis the season for fires right now for us and the rest of the SW states I guess, and we just got the word from out weather guessers that we're gonna have the Santana winds the rest of this week until the middle of next . Whoopie! Hot dry winds a-comin' (105ºF+ and single digit humidity that can get down to 4%) . It's a pyro's picnic . Today - and the last three days really - we've had some significant rainfall . No flooding here as we are on an inverted funnel in the mountains - but I got the tire chains out and the knobby tires on the Blazer for the off-chance that we might need to get out fast . I don't normally like knobbies in mud - so this is gonna be a grand experiment . I like the narrow pizza-cutter tires for mud and snow best . If youse guys saw my videos last year, you know I have about 1 . 5 miles of dirt road driveway and dedicated roads of dirt too to navigate until I get to a tertiary road with some pavement on it . Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Fall is just about here . I gotta get my propane tanks filled tomorrow down the hill - about 56 miles from here . And I've still got wood to split yet . Yuck . I burned 4 cords last winter and there was a little left over yet from the year before . The wood storehouse is empty right now .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1229105	2011-09-07 04:43:00	Bulletin::: Thousands Evacuated as Wildfire Destroys More Than 1,000 Homes in Texas One of the most devastating wildfire outbreaks in Texas history left more than 1,000 homes in ruins Tuesday and stretched the state's firefighting ranks to the limit, confronting Gov. Rick Perry with a major disaster at home just as the GOP presidential contest heats up. More than 180 fires have erupted in the past week across the rain-starved Lone Star State, and nearly 600 of the homes destroyed since then were lost in one catastrophic blaze in and around Bastrop, near Austin, that raged out of control Tuesday for a third day. Whipped into an inferno by Tropical Storm Lee's winds over the weekend, the blaze burned more than 45 square miles, forced the evacuation of thousands and killed at least two people, bringing the overall death toll from the outbreak to at least four. "We lost everything," said Willie Clements, whose two-story colonial home in a housing development near Bastrop was reduced to a heap of metal roofing and ash. A picket fence was melted. Some goats and turkeys survived, but about 20 chickens and ducks were burned to death in a coop that went up in flames. On Tuesday, Clements and his family took a picture of themselves in front of a windmill adorned with a charred red, white and blue sign that proclaimed, "United We Stand." "This is the beginning of our new family album," the 51-year-old Clements said. Perry cut short a presidential campaign trip to South Carolina to deal with the crisis. On Tuesday, he toured a blackened area near Bastrop, which is about 25 miles from Austin. "Pretty powerful visuals of individuals who lost everything," he said. "The magnitude of these losses are pretty stunning." Read more: www.foxnews.com	SurferJoe46 (51)
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