Posted on 09/05/2011 11:27:31 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
It looks like it’s crossed over into LA, unless that was already burning. I notice AR is having fires too
And OK.
“but President Obama has not yet declared the state a major disaster area as a result of the latest round of wildfires that have scorched Central, East and West Texas.”
But he declared the whole damn east coast a disaster area before the storm even hit. S O B!!!
I said this morning that at the debate tonight, Rick Perry should call him out publicly and make it a point that obama is playing politics with the lives of the citizens of Texas.
AFAIK, there have been few homes lost, but one 100 year old church was destroyed. The Jefferson (Marion Co.) and Linden (Cass Co.) schools are closed, because the fires disrupt school bus routes.)
And there are are thousands of acres of timber land still in its path...
Keep praying, Sir....the fires are still raging. :(
I just got this update from the statesman.
http://letters.statesman.com/1ab07bbb6layfousiboevgviaaaaaajlrcw3spucdhmyaaaaa
With a link to destryoed structures.
Thank you Arrowhead1952
Also, the Forest Service has updated their site.
http://tfsweb.tamu.edu/main/article.aspx?id=12888
Checking in before I head to bed. Just wanted to let you know that I’m still praying and still watching. Good night and G-d Bless Texas.
The latest from the Bastrop Fire in Austin and Obama's finally noticed.
Crews making headway on Bastrop fire; victim ID'd as Austin city workerBASTROP — Bastrop wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of houses and thousands of acres continued to burn Wednesday, but firefighters say they are making progress battling the blaze.
Officials said Wednesday that they have contained 30 percent of the larger Bastrop fire, which has so far annihilated about 800 houses and 34,000 acres, according to the Texas Forest Service.
Rescuers have begun conducting house-by-house searches for potential fire victims, but so far, the death toll remains at two.
Authorities identified one of the two victims as Michael Troy Farr, a 48-year-old City of Austin employee who was found Tuesday at his home on Hudson Drive near Smithville. Farr, an electrician who had worked for the city since 2003, worked in the building services division.
[snip]
Meanwhile, federal support may soon be on its way.
President Barack Obama telephoned Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday afternoon to offer condolences about the wildfires and pledge federal help with firefighting and recovery, the White House said.
Obama reached Perry in California, where the governor was preparing for Wednesday night's Republican presidential debate. After hanging up, Obama directed officials to ensure that they are "making all resources available" to Texas, the U.S. Forest Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the press office said.
Though the Bastrop blaze remains largely uncontained, firefighters have had success managing other Central Texas fires, including those in Steiner Ranch, Spicewood and Leander.
Along with the search for additional victims in Bastrop, officials with FEMA began an assessment with local officials of the fire damage...............
Central abd Northern PA are hurting pretty badly. It ain’t over. Some deaths, roads buckling, trees down, power out. I am high in the mountains so I don’t usually see the kind of really bad stuff that hits everywhere else.
So obama finally gave Texas a second thought. Funny he made it just under the wire before the debate last night. Thank G-d for small favors, I guess.
Will be checking back later for updates. Prayers up. Stay safe.
Prayers for you all up there too M.M. I had not been watching the weather conditions back East and was unaware, until this morning (looking around the net), that the situation had become so dire.
Be safe.
BASTROP COUNTY COMPLEX, Bastrop County. 34,068 acres, 30 percent contained. Heavy airtankers, scoopers, helicopters, and SEATs assisted on this fire that started in the Lost Pines area just northeast of Bastrop. Most of the forward progress of the fire has stopped, but significant intense burning continues in the interior. An assessment team has confirmed 1,386 homes have been destroyed. Two civilians were found dead Tuesday as search crews went through the charred subdivisions. A Southern Area Type I Incident Management Team is assisting in managing the fire. A FEMA Management Assistance Grant was received.
1386 homes verified destroyed
This is only in the north part of the fire zone
this is BAD
Real BAD
NO!
That is the latest sitrep
http://ticc.tamu.edu/Documents/Home/tx_sitrep.pdf
talking to a volunteer fireman from Smithville they have only started looking and counting in the North part of the fire zone..
Its gonna be a bigger number.
Gosh. How really awful.
People will pull together like they always do.
God bless them.
We’re Texans
You bet we will
the Flood of ‘98 was a 500 year flood, Comal, Guadalupe, Gonzales, and Dewitt Counties were devastated more homes than this were destroyed and lost in the flood
We stepped up and got over that as well.
It just wasn’t water but fire this time.
I lived in the desert in 1993 and that was more water than anything in memory. Sometimes life is hard.
Same here. In fact, I'm a volunteer firefighter just north of Houston (south of Spring).
We had a 35 acre plot of land go up over the weekend off of 1960.
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