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7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

8,600 acres

Psssh.  That's what they call "Tuesday" in West Texas, or so I've been told.

 

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40% contained.  

Hard to believe that's good news, but that's good news.

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16 going into Fredericksburg is the only road that closed, not sure I'd that's still the case today. I'll be going in on 290, wasn't much of an issue yesterday, save for fuckface with Cali plates doing 10mph through JC, think they were actually looking for the former president. 

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43 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Psssh.  That's what they call "Tuesday" in West Texas, or so I've been told.

 

Hard to believe that's good news, but that's good news.

Rent free, boy.   and that was related to the dust/ wind.

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9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

It was related to the NWS 5/5 wildfire risk, "boy".

and you changed the context of what I said to suit your comment.  It was related to the dust/ wind; not the fires.

Typical.

Find someone else to fuck with, idiot.

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This is the comment, about which I retorted.    Again, you just made up shit, about a comment everyone else just moved past. 

Thanks to this thread I learned I was supposed to evacuate today. There was lots of dust outside my home, but no smoke.

We call that Monday in West Texas.

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21 minutes ago, Iceman said:

This is the comment, about which I retorted.    Again, you just made up shit, about a comment everyone else just moved past. 

Oh for fuck's sake, sue me because your day-of-week comment was about a slightly different topic in a thread you wholly slorch'd because you don't understand how 5/5 wildfire risk could be "historic".

God you are a fucking beating.  Go deliver some pizzas.

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so it looks like the A&M fire service was somehow caught off guard?  with nothing prepared in the area? how?  these conditions have been predicted for at least the last 3 days.
 

These conditions were predicted for an area ranging from Perryton to Portales to Pearsall. If you know how to cover that kind of territory I’m all ears.
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1 hour ago, Herbie Hancock said:


These conditions were predicted for an area ranging from Perryton to Portales to Pearsall. If you know how to cover that kind of territory I’m all ears.

Thank God they didn't use any other first letters, it would have been even worse.

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9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Thank God they didn't use any other first letters, it would have been even worse.

If we extrapolate it out, we could see it go to Poteet then Port Isabel.

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Wildfire Update: March 16, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

Yesterday, Texas A&M Forest Service personnel responded to 11 new wildfires that burned 9,116 acres across the state. 

Active Wildfires: 
- Cottonwood Creek Fire, San Saba County - 633 acres and 95% contained
- Rest Area Fire, Gray County, 7,931 acres and 65% contained
- Windmill Fire, Roberts County - 23,000 acres and 65% contained
- Saddle Fire, Bandera County - 17 acres and 80% contained
- Duval 1256 Fire, Duval County - 58 acres and 75% contained
- Lake Pasture Fire, Refugio County - 300 acres and 90% contained
- Crabapple Fire, Gillespie County - 8,640 acres and 40% contained
- Chicken Strip Fire, Real County - 20 acres and 50% contained

Contained Wildfires (100%):
- Anderson 1226 Fire, Anderson County - 20 acres 
- Anderson 1256 Fire, Anderson County - 1.5 acres
- Cass 1230 Fire, Cass County - 2 acres 
- Conco Hill Fire, Cass County - 57 acres
- Upshur 1259 Fire, Upshur County - 50 acres
- Angelina 1258 Fire, Angelina County - 7 acres
- Brazoria 1279 Fire, Brazoria County - 15 acres
- Harris 1269 Fire, Harris County - 11 acres
- Walker 1281 Fire, Walker County - 8.7 acres
- Yellowjacket Fire, Fayette County - 4 acres
- Red Rock Creek Fire, Llano County - 48 acres

For information about active and recently contained wildfires, visit the Texas A&M Forest Service Incident Viewer: https://tfswildfires.com/public/

Frequent incident updates can be found on the Incident Information Twitter page, https://twitter.com/AllHazardsTFS

📸 The Crabapple Fire began on March 15, 2025 and is located northeast of Fredericksburg, TX. This photo was taken along Highway 16 on the left flank of the fire towards where crews were doing structure protection on a house. Photo courtesy of K. Moran. Credit: Texas A&M Forest Service.

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Thank God they didn't use any other first letters, it would have been even worse.

I was going for alliteration, and I refuse to acknowledge Dumas as a city instead of a sanctuary for the mentally deficient so D was out of the question.
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7 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:


I was going for alliteration, and I refuse to acknowledge Dumas as a city instead of a sanctuary for the mentally deficient so D was out of the question.

Watchu got against the ding dong daddies, huh?

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21 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

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Yeah, it was mighty smoky on the east side with ash raining down while we were outside… good times!

 

SoI wentoutsidethisafternoon and i l ooked a t thesunforabout30seconds throughmycamera andcouldnt seeanysmoke but somethingisintheair andgotinmyeyes becauseeverywhereIlook I    seebrightspots.    Ihadproblemsreadingthispagebutanyways Ididntgetanygoodpictures. EvenwheniclosemyfuckingeyesIstillsee spotssosomethingisintheair.

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7 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:


These conditions were predicted for an area ranging from Perryton to Portales to Pearsall. If you know how to cover that kind of territory I’m all ears.

If aggy could single-handedly win WWII, they should have been able to handle this.

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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

SoI wentoutsidethisafternoon and i l ooked a t thesunforabout30seconds throughmycamera andcouldnt seeanysmoke but somethingisintheair andgotinmyeyes becauseeverywhereIlook I    seebrightspots.    Ihadproblemsreadingthispagebutanyways Ididntgetanygoodpictures. EvenwheniclosemyfuckingeyesIstillsee spotssosomethingisintheair.

Chad?

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On 3/15/2025 at 8:24 PM, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

so it looks like the A&M fire service was somehow caught off guard?  with nothing prepared in the area? how?  these conditions have been predicted for at least the last 3 years.

 

FIFY

Posted
10 minutes ago, MontereyMX said:

structures??

I haven't heard or read specific info on structures, but given how large the burn area is, there have undoubtedly been some losses.  Shelters are in place for those forced to evacuate.   Someone mentioned it above, but the Watch Duty app is a great resource for finding all of the relevant info on active fires.    Latest news is that they are focused on the SE edge of the fire today given that strong winds could likely pick up embers and spread them further East toward Blanco County. 

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1 hour ago, MontereyMX said:

structures??

 

1 hour ago, Samson's Wig said:

I haven't heard or read specific info on structures, but given how large the burn area is, there have undoubtedly been some losses.  Shelters are in place for those forced to evacuate.   Someone mentioned it above, but the Watch Duty app is a great resource for finding all of the relevant info on active fires.    Latest news is that they are focused on the SE edge of the fire today given that strong winds could likely pick up embers and spread them further East toward Blanco County. 

just took a look at the web version of watch duty and you can superimpose the fire area over google maps. anyway, there are clearly some structures that are likely now gone. it doesn't look like many, but I would guess several dozen structures or so just by my very quick flyover

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Just for a sense of scale, 9600 acres is roughly a 3.9 mile x 3.9 mile square in terms of area.  It's big, but it's not as big as most people assume.

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59 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Just for a sense of scale, 9600 acres is roughly a 3.9 mile x 3.9 mile square in terms of area.  It's big, but it's not as big as most people assume.

well, sure, but placement matters, of course.  for another sense of scale that would wipe out everything north of the river to 183 and from Mopac to I35. so it's also not an insignificant area.

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54 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Just for a sense of scale, 9600 acres is roughly a 3.9 mile x 3.9 mile square in terms of area.  It's big, but it's not as big as most people assume.

That's still mas o menos 15 square miles gone up in smoke.

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9 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

well, sure, but placement matters, of course.  for another sense of scale that would wipe out everything north of the river to 183 and from Mopac to I35. so it's also not an insignificant area.

Right.  Out in the middle of nowhere it's nowhere near as costly.  (Not that I wish anyone to lose their house or hay barn or whatever.)

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22 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Just for a sense of scale, 9600 acres is roughly a 3.9 mile x 3.9 mile square in terms of area.  It's big, but it's not as big as most people assume.

So roughly the size of Rhode Island.

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-Jeff Lindner 8:00am

Red Flag Warning in effect for all of SE TX today for critical fire weather conditions.

 

Another day…another Red Flag Warning with weather conditions continuing dry with gusty winds and low humidity values. Overnight winds remained elevated in the 15-25mph range with a low level jet axis overhead…this axis is shifting eastward this morning, but winds will remain gusty through the day in the 15-25mph range. Current humidity values have recovered into the 35-45% range across the region, but with good mixing starting in the next few hours and dewpoints in the 20’s, humidity values will quickly fall below 25% by late morning and below 20% for this afternoon. Fire behavior yesterday afternoon on the Pauline Rd Fire has shown an escalation of the fuel landscape with short runs in pine canopy indicating larger fuels will burn in the current very dry air conditions. Fine fuels remain in poor condition and dry each afternoon with the gusty winds and low humidity values. Winds will weaken significant this evening but return to the south and increase into the 15-25mph range on Friday…while humidity values will also increase, the gusty winds on Friday will produce another day of elevated to near critical fire weather conditions.

 

The increasing number of fires and uncontrollability has escalated the local fire threat in the last few days. There is an increasing potential for larger, hotter, and more resource intensive fires given the current fuel load and weather conditions. 

 

Avoid any activities that could start a fire.  

 

Pauline Rd Fire: 

Fire is 2,000 acres and 10% contained this morning with fire activity minimal (this is usually the least active fire period on large fires). Ground crews overnight worked extensive structure protection efforts in both San Jacinto and Montgomery Counties and saved many structures. Evacuations remain in place for both portions of Montgomery and San Jacinto Counties with HWY 105 being used as the primary evacuation corridor along with firefighting resources. An estimated 900 structures are currently threatened by this fire. TFS dozer crews worked all night to build containment lines on the northern flank of the fire and will be working today for better perimeter protection and containment lines. Several aircraft are inbound this morning to work this fire including single engine air tankers and larger air tankers which will be supplying water drops and retardant to help ground crews with containment lines as well as cooling the overall fire scene. Fire behavior yesterday afternoon and evening was extreme with several pine canopy crown runs. This is the first time we have seen extensive movement of the fire out of the fine fuel loads (grasses) and into the tree canopy since this current fire threat has developed. As noted by the rapid spread of the fire in only a few hours yesterday, the continued degrading of the regional and state fire landscape will result in faster, hotter, and harder to control fires with potential for fires to move out of the rural areas into more urban interfaces.    

 

Weather conditions will remain poor with increasing winds in the next few hours and falling humidity values. This will encourage fire growth toward the south along the head of the fire. Gusty northerly winds will remain in place through early evening followed by significant improvement by early evening.  

Posted
19 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

This shit is crazy. In the comments the OP just says location is Texas. 

Holy shit that is terrifying how fast the fire spread. On residential lawns no less

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2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

This shit is crazy. In the comments the OP just says location is Texas. 

I'm just glad that they were fastidiously mowing.....the dry and dead grass that clearly didn't need any mowing at all.

But hey, you're scheduled for monthly service at $120, we're gonna make our $120.

It's like sprinkler systems that run every fucking day, whether it's rained or not.  No waste around here, nosiree.

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