Looks like fire season has started here in the southwest. This one is 5 miles from my place and burning around 500 acres.
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I live in East Texas and we are in a burn ban. Yesterday on the way home I saw a big plume of black smoke. When I got closer I saw the volunteer fire department truck pulling back on the highway. I bet someone had a brush pile they lit up and the FD put it out. I have a giant pile of brush to burn but have to wait for rain.
Since I took this picture the pile is 2-3 times bigger. We had a frozen rain and snow event and a lot of trees fell and a lot of limbs as well.
Dont want to burn up all my trees.
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Going to be a very bad year
Hope you avoid it
Yeah, when my father bought his home in Virginia there were so many piles of brush on the property that we numbered them, and worked through them systematically over the course of several years…
These days, I just use a chipper, or just bury it, though I do keep one fence-like section of deadfall which I carefully add to in the spring and which I try not to disturb for the balance of the year — fireflies lay eggs in/around rotting wood and the larval and pupa stages feed in/around such — we have a lot more fireflies than the rest of the neighborhood.
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Drought and fire and two very scary things that a a dreadful combination! In Western NC a few years ago it was rampant… and so were the arsonists. They started going back in the woods (we live adjacent to swaths of National Forest) and lighting fires. There were at least 2 separate instances within 1 mile of our house as the crow and fire flies that they started fires. Why!!! That was a rather nervous couple months. I don’t know how people living in the West handle it! Safety to you and your family, @Ed.E
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