[Loch-Ruadh] Everyone ok this morning?

[Julie Self]

As long as we get no rain and there are idiots out there welding in a grassy 
yard and burning trash and tossing lit cigarettes out of moving cars from 
the highway, we will continue to have UNCONTROLLABLE fires.  I have been in 
the middle of a fast-moving grass fire, beating the ground with wet towels 
and raking to move dry leaves out of the path of the fire.  It is 
horrifying.  To my mind it isn't the same thing at all as the controlled 
burning that is beneficial!  I find it difficult to believe that the smoke 
in the air is not a pollutant and that, when it does rain,we won't have 
flooding because of the lack of vegetation needed to control the runoff.  
Just my two cents worth.

Gwen
Loch Ruadh Rocks!!





>From: erinn holloway <mom3badboys at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Shire of Loch Ruadh, Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA,Inc." 
><loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
>To: "Shire of Loch Ruadh, Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA,Inc." 
><loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Loch-Ruadh] Everyone ok this morning?
>Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 13:13:31 -0800 (PST)
>
>On a lighter note. Grassfires are a natural part of
>refurbishing the landscape. We used to have controlled
>burns in AZ to help balance things back out.
>Historically the Native Indians did the same thing.
>  Maybe even though it sucks for us humans, the fires
>and drought  are nature's way of trying to fix the
>ecosystem here. I'm sure the pollution and
>over-costruction of the area has been detrimental to
>the environment.
>I hope that you all are safe and that these fires will
>stop soon.
>Erinn
>
>--- Patrick Bixler <pbwidget68 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Keep us updated if the fires get close.
> >
> > That was one thing that I didn't understand about my
> > apartment community.  When we had the fire spring up
> > next door, why they just didn't turn on the
> > sprinklers.
> >
> > The grass in my community is only but an inch high
> > and
> > dead.  Fire swept through half of the complex, but
> > wasn't enough to cause any damage to any of the
> > buildings or vehicles.  The grass was like one giant
> > fuse with nothing to ignite at the end.
> >
> > Turning on the sprinklers would have stopped the
> > spreading of the fires easily.
> >
> > My apartment building still looks great, but is now
> > on
> > a landscape of charred grass.  That and it smells
> > like
> > burnt grass now.  :(
> >
> > On a good note, I am sure that when they reseed the
> > yard, its going to come up greener than ever.
> >
> > Eirikr
> >
> > --- Dana <sca004 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > > The smell of burning grass and the haze of smoke
> > is
> > > heavy in the air ...cough, cough!!
> > > No fires near my house...yet. The yard was watered
> > > again this morning.
> > >
> > > Dana
> > >   Terrence wrote:
> > >
> > >   Hope everyone is ok this morning.  Saw Benbrook
> > on
> > > the news and also Mineral Wells.
> > >
> > >   Terrence>
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