Posted on 06/07/2011 4:58:32 PM PDT by PROCON
(Reuters) - Light up the grill for July 4 and get six months in jail under stringent new burn rules imposed by one Texas county in response to a devastating and record-breaking drought.
An effort to stem wildfires, which have already taken out millions of acres of ranch land here, has encroached on the unofficial Texas pastime of backyard grilling -- as much a part of Texas as football and pick-up trucks.
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Texas is as large as France. I have no idea about Guadalupe county political makeup, except it's obviously screwed up. I'm a half-day's fast drive from there.
/johnny
If you have been through a fire, you will have no problem complying with this ban and I am sure with a ban on fireworks as well.
Understood!
Texas has had it's share of fires..:=(
I don’t know if Guadalupe County is particularly blue, but I do know that it’s incredibly dry around here, and it is so easy to start a fire unintentionally. Just pulling off the side of the road can start a fire (hot catalytic converter), tossing a cigarette butt out the window, etc.
This is absurd.
Not surprised in the least. There are several counties around us that have already banned ALL fireworks and ours will probably do the same. Gov. Perry issued disaster declarations to those counties to make it VERY official.
If it’s where I’m thinking of, that’s where everybody goes to get drunk while floating downriver, then stumble back to camp and barbeque...
It's a burn ban, we have them all over Texas every year.
BTW, for all the other "Texas is a gonner" posters, I received an email that Gov. Perry just added SB 9 Anti-Sanctuary City Bill to the call of the special session this afternoon.
That is Voter ID and Anti-Sanctuary City.
I foresee a "unexpected" population drop... "cultural" business owners folding and whining to reporters from The AAS, threats of lawsuits from "minorities" of "profiling" hispanics in counties where they are 80% of the population and a lot of caravans heading for the various Texas borders, to get out.
:-)
>> “but if there’s so much tinder around” <<
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On your patio?
This is socialist excrement.
A ban on fireworks makes sense, a ban on grilling is idiotic. I have yet to hear of a brush or forest fire started by a barbecue and I doubt one ever has been, or will be, started by said grilling.
BTW, I have been through three really bad brush fires that almost took out my house, but luckily I was able to save it. All three fires were started by careless drivers, throwing cigarettes, one started the fire deliberately and the last one was started when a guys front tire caught on fire(don't know why) and he drove off onto my property with the wheel burning. None of them, or any of the other fires in CA during those 3 years, were started with a grill.
Do you know who has or can you Ping the Texas Ping list?
When brush gets that dry you can start a fire by dropping a hammer on a rock. If it is just during the drought it is a good idea.
>> If you have been through a fire, you will have no problem complying with this ban
Bullshit.
Even if you HAVEN’T been through a fire, you will ALWAYS exercise common sense and personal responsibility in everything that you do involving fire. Especially in a drought condition. Without having to be told by some two-bit government pensioner.
But if you have a safe place to barbecue and you are competent and understanding of the issues and are exercising personal responsibility, you will go ahead and BARBECUE as you wish, and the liberal nanny state (and those who suck up to it) be damned.
I have a small Texas list....
No grillin’...but lots of chillin’ ping!
I’ve never seen a grill start a fire personally. I can imagine that some idiots don’t know how
I believe we BBQ’d in Guadeloupe Co Last year for the TCMS,
This next one will be in SE Dallas County
I have had two small fires get away from me amd I certainly would comply. Man they move fast in Texas.
Hey, George is my neighbor and I bet you he will be grillin outside.
Typically people drink the 5th on the 4th.
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