Close call

[Wingnut]

This was what it looked like out the back of my house yesterday afternoon.

 

This is about 400 feet away from where I was standing...These flames are 40-50 feet high:

 

 

 

Fire dept was busy fighting structure fires a couple miles away, so we were on our own for most of the afternoon.

 

It got a little too close for comfort...That's my house on the right:

 

 

Next door neighbor:

 

 

Used to be 185 acres of wheat:

 

 

 

And good times were had by all.

 

 

A total of about 3000 acres burned.

[mmmikkke]

Glad you and your house survived.

 

Are you having a barbeque to celebrate? Oh, wait, it's probably too dry for that. Cancel that suggestion.

[Wingnut]

Yeah...There's been a burn ban in effect for weeks.

 

Whole lotta good that's done. I haven't grilled a steak in more than a month because of the ban.

 

I probably will fire up the grill today though, screw the burn ban, I've got nothing left to set on fire in the back yard.

[99silveradoz71]

Whew, that's definitely an attention getter. Hoses at the ready I see there too. It always amazes me when I travel out west and see spots along the road where you can tell it burned.

[Wingnut]

There's scorched earth for more than 6 miles south of my house from this fire...They say 3000 acres, but I think it's a lot more than that.

[Black02Silverado]

Looks like the flames got close to that natrual gas line on the side of the house. Not a good thing.

 

Glad no injuries and the homestead is safe. Must make for some hard breathing though, with all that smoke.

[Wingnut]

Looks like the flames got close to that natrual gas line on the side of the house.   Not a good thing.

 

Glad no injuries and the homestead is safe.  Must make for some hard breathing though, with all that smoke.

 

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Funny thing...That's the north side of the house, and that area gets close to zero sun, so I've planted fescue there (the rest of the yard is 97% bermuda, 3% weeds), and it's already greened up...Green grass doesn't burn.

 

As for the breathing, I'm still having a bit of difficulty...Not to mention my eyes are still all red and puffy. We won't get in to what's coming out of my nose.

[asilverblazer]

I've been watering my yard like crazy for the last few weeks, glad to see you made it out OK, hopefully the rain coming this weekend won't be way too over rated.

[Wingnut]

Forgive me if I don't care whether or not it rains anymore.

[plainvanilla]

Forgive me if I don't care whether or not it rains anymore. 

 

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I hope we all get rain in the south soon. I know your area looks pretty bad now, but if it would rain you would be shocked at how green everything will get in a hurry.

[asilverblazer]

Forgive me if I don't care whether or not it rains anymore.  

 

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What?! You don't go muddin'?!

[sincityZ71]

Glad your place survived. It is very true about green grass and healthy plants, they don't burn. There have been many cases where wildfires have burned completely around houses that had green grass around them without any damage to the grass or house when everything else in the area was destroyed.

 

It is good pratice to have a healthy grass ring around your place if you live in wildfire country. All these fires already this year is crazy. It isn't even wildfire season. I gotta feeling the west is going to get hammered this year as we have had very little rain or snow this winter.

[Wingnut]

I bet I'm a mowing fool by the end of this summer. Stuff grows back twice as thick and green after a fire.

[antig24]

That was pretty close, glad everything worked out ok though.

[carneyman]

Crazy all the fires we've been having lately. Im in east texas so its been raining here a bit more than back home (amarillo). they finally got some rain and snow, which is great. supposed to rain here all week, so it'll be muddin time!! any ideas on how to get red mud stains off of your rims?