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As if the scorpions, rattlesnakes and rednecks weren't enough...
Big Mulch Fire Riles Small Texas Town
(AP) The enormous mulch pile in this small town had drawn a few grumbles from neighbors before. But it was not until it caught fire on Christmas that the sparks really began to fly.
The volcano-like mountain of branches and wood chips for use in landscaping has been smoldering ever since, spreading smoke so thick that people in this community just outside San Antonio wake up some mornings in a fog, unable to see past their front doors.
...The pile of mulch, which has been sitting in an open field for more than a decade, is about 400 feet long, 225 feet wide and 70 feet tall in the middle. It is now a vast, smoking landscape, with flames shooting up periodically from the blackened expanse, in what looks like a scene from the latest "Star Wars" movie.
The state hired a contractor for about $1.75 million to put out the blaze, and its crews arrived Tuesday to begin aggressively fighting the fire. But it is expected to take another two weeks to extinguish it.
This is just a couple of miles from my daughter and 3 grandkids. If the wind is from the wrong direction, it's bad. We drove by there tonight on our way home from dinner and it looked like something from a movie set. The city has run huge pipes from all surrounding water hydrants to furnish millions of gallons to the water cannons set up to attack the fire starting tomorrow. The huge pile glows and sparks at night, like a smoldering volcano. This thing is only a few hundred yards from a 2000+ population high school and a huge subdivision.
No place but Texas...![:-\](https://www.early-retirement.org/sk/forums/images/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
Big Mulch Fire Riles Small Texas Town
(AP) The enormous mulch pile in this small town had drawn a few grumbles from neighbors before. But it was not until it caught fire on Christmas that the sparks really began to fly.
The volcano-like mountain of branches and wood chips for use in landscaping has been smoldering ever since, spreading smoke so thick that people in this community just outside San Antonio wake up some mornings in a fog, unable to see past their front doors.
...The pile of mulch, which has been sitting in an open field for more than a decade, is about 400 feet long, 225 feet wide and 70 feet tall in the middle. It is now a vast, smoking landscape, with flames shooting up periodically from the blackened expanse, in what looks like a scene from the latest "Star Wars" movie.
The state hired a contractor for about $1.75 million to put out the blaze, and its crews arrived Tuesday to begin aggressively fighting the fire. But it is expected to take another two weeks to extinguish it.
This is just a couple of miles from my daughter and 3 grandkids. If the wind is from the wrong direction, it's bad. We drove by there tonight on our way home from dinner and it looked like something from a movie set. The city has run huge pipes from all surrounding water hydrants to furnish millions of gallons to the water cannons set up to attack the fire starting tomorrow. The huge pile glows and sparks at night, like a smoldering volcano. This thing is only a few hundred yards from a 2000+ population high school and a huge subdivision.
No place but Texas...
