Thanks. At first I was going to leave the RV on site and just go to Rec Center in Smithville as directed. I figured things would be under control in a few hours and we could return later.
My wife questioned my sanity. Do we really wanna spend a night in a DRY pine forest with wildfires less than 10 miles sway? So we hooked up and left. So glad I listened to my wife!
And I'm glad we had time to get the RV out. Those camping 10 miles away at Bastrop had to leave theirs.
And by the time we did leave, it was spooky driving away from the fires; the entire sky was smokey black and the sun was completely obscured. It was only 6:00pm yet we all had our headlights on. It looked like storm clouds with an orange tint to them.
This is not my picture, of course, but I think this is Hwy 71.
And even though we were some 15 miles away from the fires, the smoke by this time had intensified everywhere.