Our noses . . we’re learning to be very good smoke detectors!
Yesterday my friend was over and we were in the sewing room visiting. When we went outside, probably about 4:30, for her to leave, we both smelled smoke. We walked around, trying to see if we could see smoke but we couldn’t.
I came back in the house to check the local news and emergency group online to see and sure enough . . another fire near in the same vicinity as the other fire earlier this week but farther south and then a second one burning closer to us but still not close enough to be a threat . . probably. When I checked my mail, I had a note from a friend that they had been headed home from out of town, saw the smoke as they got closer to home, looked it up online and she thought it might be closer to us. I assured her it wasn’t but out here in the country, everyone is looking out for their friends with all this fire danger.
Fire Map
Not sure how much you can see on that little map but if you look at the left side, not too far from the bottom, that’s where we are. By the time I saved the screen shot yesterday, the fire near where the one was earlier this week (brown icon) was out. The one closer to us (red icon) was still burning. The Forestry Service was saying it was 90% contained. The local newspaper on Facebook said it was out so I assumed it was out, took my cough medicine and went to bed. It’s much farther away than it looks on that map but we so desperately need rain to stop all these fires.
I looked at a map of the US and there are lots of fires in lots of states on this southwestern side of the country. We all seem to need rain.
Jackie says
Hope you feel better soon
Dorothy Matheson says
And the East side of the country is having too much rain.
Nelle Coursey says
And yet on the East coast they are having drastic flooding. There have been lives lost in Pennsylvania!! A lot of homes that have never flooded are under water! It is crazy! Half of the country is drowning and the other half is burning, literally! I read in today’s paper that the fire would be smoldering for another week at least and there might be fires that crop up from that. It is a scary situation! I had a fireman tell me today that it is illegal to burn any kind of pit or have any kind of fire within the city limits of Brownwood! Good to know next time they fire it up! I have one on both sides of me!!
Susan says
I would like weather control, so all the extra rain TN has had this year could be routed to Texas. I could have used more sunshine! I hope they continue to be far from you. It sounds like the firefighters are getting things out pretty fast, but it’s still scary.