Approaching 10,000 acres and still cooking. Preliminary info is it was started a small hunt camp. Hate to be in that guy's shoes.....oh, the liability!

We need some rain....

Ordinarily, we would be ducking tornadoes this time of year. I don't think that we've even had one decent thunderstorm so far this spring. We desperately need the rain.

Dry here as well.

Dry isn't even the word for it. He need a lot of rain absolutely no sub moisture and is scary dry.

Wish we could have shared some of ours with you from last week.....

Western NC is down by 13.5" in the last six months. We have several active wildfires in the park.

Wish I could send some of our rain your way Patrick.
It’s wet here.
How far east of town is it?

Fire is about 8 miles NE of town.

View from my town.....

Ohh wow thats terrible. Im sure there have been some evacuations. I sure hope people are safe.

The current area of the fire is sparsely populated with residences and hunt camps. Evacs have been on-going for a couple days based on wind direction forecasts.

Today things have intensified. This southern pineywoods rough will burn hot. Saw some pics yesterday of flames pushing 100ft tall.

From my yard a few min ago....

Big jump today.....16,500+ acres and only 10% contained. Some homes being seriously threatened now.

From my backyard yard a few min ago.....

And that's not the only one, just the biggest.

https://www.savannahnow.com/story/n...h-county-burning-8000-acres/89712835007/

Here at home, there has been 1/2" of rain since September. Total of 4" of snow all winter. Nebraska had over 1 1/2 million acres burn a couple of weeks ago. Closest was 8 miles from the house. Several smaller fires recently. Never seen it this dry!
Roy

Just text Brian McKee, owner of Southern Snares. They have been dealing with a huge fire over his way also. Thanks to God's blessing and Georgia Forestry Commission dozer operators his home and business were saved. Fire burnt completely around his home and business....right up to the buildings/yard areas & the newly plowed breaks.That fire has consumed many homes. 5000 acres burnt as of this morning.

Brian sent me this pic.....

Killing a lot of baby critters and bird eggs for sure.

No humidity in Florida yet? Wild fires are going to be a thing this year if we don't start getting rain and continued rain through till next wintah. A bad deal!!