tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post4115968061297820122..comments2024-03-28T15:33:17.736-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Wildfires move fast!Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-5665062070891631452011-09-30T17:49:24.160-05:002011-09-30T17:49:24.160-05:00That made me think of Norman Maclean's "Y...That made me think of Norman Maclean's "Young Men and Fire" and his son's book about the Storm King Mountain fire several decades later.<br /><br />Flat ground with wind or trying to outrace flames burning up a hill.<br /><br />Terrifying thought.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05414687981098467556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-21674851956009493162011-09-28T10:43:28.370-05:002011-09-28T10:43:28.370-05:00Up in the Texas panhandle flames have been clocked...Up in the Texas panhandle flames have been clocked at almost 60 mph, driven by 70+mph winds. That's part of what caused the fatalities in the March 2006 wildfires - people couldn't outrun the flames. Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the wind could pick up cow chips that had dried out and turned them into flaming Frisbees (R), sailing them over the firebreaks and fire lines. <br /><br />LittleRed1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-91726690434623196352011-09-28T03:25:19.485-05:002011-09-28T03:25:19.485-05:00Greetings from Texas,
Baxter Black is known for fu...Greetings from Texas,<br />Baxter Black is known for funny stories and poems, but he tells one that isn't. Range Fire.<br /><br />According to Mr. Black, when the Yellow Stone burned in the 1980's at least one of the fires was clocked at about forty miles and hour because of the wind. <br /><br />I have heard the folks who got away from it were the one's who grabbed their car keys and kids and went. If you stayed to pack a bag you burned.Arthur B. Burnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17181435760518570136noreply@blogger.com