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Vanity: Is There A Texas Fire Thread?
squarebarb

Posted on 09/07/2011 9:50:49 AM PDT by squarebarb

the Texas Dep't Of Natural Resources site is way behind, so are most news reports, the fires are outstripping news so I was hoping there would be a running thread somewhere, thanks.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: chat; texasfires; vanity

1 posted on 09/07/2011 9:50:54 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: squarebarb

Breaking News is that way———>


2 posted on 09/07/2011 9:52:12 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: squarebarb

We would have one but we can’t see our computer screens through all the smoke.


3 posted on 09/07/2011 9:54:34 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: squarebarb

If you change your location to Texas, you can see the Texas forum and we have an ongoing discussion there.


4 posted on 09/07/2011 9:55:52 AM PDT by mnehring
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I hear you. For the first time we are getting smoke haze, a lot. 80 miles west of San antonio.


5 posted on 09/07/2011 9:56:32 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: mnehring
See if this helps!


6 posted on 09/07/2011 9:56:57 AM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar said "Quae cum ita sunt. Since these things are so.".)
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To: mnehring

Thanks!


7 posted on 09/07/2011 9:57:07 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: squarebarb

This site may be helpful:

http://ticc.tamu.edu/Response/FireActivity/default.aspx

Looks like a pretty good map and it appears to be updated frequently.


8 posted on 09/07/2011 9:57:46 AM PDT by texmexis best
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To: squarebarb

Five down in the “Breaking News” sidebar:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2774138/posts


9 posted on 09/07/2011 10:01:56 AM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: squarebarb
We are up in NE Texas and the entire town is blanketed in smoke. It is like a weird SciFi movie. We are right under the tip of the smoke plume in the NE area on this satellite view.


10 posted on 09/07/2011 10:02:24 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: squarebarb

I work in Irving (Las Colinas) and I’m told the haze outside is actually smoke from fires West and South of town. Don’t know if they’re telling tall tales.


11 posted on 09/07/2011 10:11:37 AM PDT by Made In The USA (This post may be recorded for quality purposes.)
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To: squarebarb

lol.

It’s in the breaking news sidebar...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2774138/posts


12 posted on 09/07/2011 10:15:15 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: texmexis best

THANKS. These E TX fires are too close for comfort. Will refer back to this map regularly.


13 posted on 09/07/2011 10:15:47 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: squarebarb

also many ad hoc Facebook pages are up passing health and welfare info as it becomes available


14 posted on 09/07/2011 10:19:08 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: mnehring

On the west side of I35 by Austin and the wind has changed so we’re getting some of the smoke. Just slightly hazy out but I’ve been coughing and eyes have been watering up today.


15 posted on 09/07/2011 10:26:35 AM PDT by bgill (just getting tagline ready for 6 months after you vote in Perry - Tried to warn you he's a RINO.)
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To: Dudoight

They really are making me nervous. Way too close.


16 posted on 09/07/2011 10:59:22 AM PDT by texmexis best
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To: squarebarb
I used this link: http://inciweb.org/state/45/ to keep track of the Wallow fire in AZ and other fires around NM earlier this year. They update pretty regularly (daily, if not every few hours). Currently it shows 59 separate active wildfires within the last 30 days in Texas.
17 posted on 09/07/2011 11:43:16 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: squarebarb

thanks to all, sorry to be such a dolt about finding the thread!


18 posted on 09/07/2011 4:18:34 PM PDT by squarebarb
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