Random Picture Thread

Hey 1Much,

What part of Texas are you in?

I'm in the part next to the part that's on fire. In fact, I got home at 2am from assisting the forest service with those monster fires near Guthrie/Knox city.

We pulled in just as the wind shifted and then spent the next two hours running for our lives. Finally went home because the FD in the next town had to assist in another big brush fire and there was nobody to protect the hometown.

Lance.

 

random picture of me and my boat

 

salt,,,,,im in odessa/midland area,,,the area on fire last week,,heh,,and i got a cabin in robert lee,,,the place on fire the week before odessa,,, i hear yours is over 10,000 acres already.....good luck man

 

Two guys in the desert and all we can think about is boats. That's either sad or funny.

We haven't been called back to help yet. Today's liable to be much worse. Lower humidity and higher winds already this morning than we had most of yesterday.

We're volunteer, so I can go to the lake if I want. I'll be too far away to be able to respond. If it was calmer and warmer, I just might.

When we helped with the fires around Snyder a couple weeks ago, the organization by the Forest Service was good. Last night was frustrating. Impossible area to do much, and the dozer crews we were supporting were wasting time and kind of wandering around lost. But you know how dangerous those cedar-choked canyons can be.

Worst part was I forgot my camera and was at the most spectacular fire I may ever see.

Lance.

 

You boys been playin with matches again - you know only 'grown-ups' are allowed to play with matches

And seriously guys, take care out there, run before you have to!!

 

Keep safe guys...

 

Thanks Mas.,, Walrus

 

We all have our uses - I am not sure of what mine are yet... ????

 

Lance, if it will make you feel better Jim doesn't call it a desert. It's the land of non-skid.

 

Here's something funny...http://www.illwillpress.com/vault.html

Yes, also off topic.

 

My wife moved up here for a few months before we got married. First time I spent any time here, I started calling the place "Parched Earth", and that was a year for near-record rainfall.

Some of the weeds have turpentine-like sap and practically explode when a spark hits them.

We were setting a back-fire trying to keep one of the fires from jumping a road, and the broomweed burst into flame and literally engulfed us the second the fire hit it. It was like lighting gasoline...Whoomp!

It's not all bad, the land will be infinitely better for it, it was choked with useless, waterhogging types of trees, and will return to what it was supposed to be. Protecting property is the trick. People refuse to maintain firebreaks and control brush on their property, and then they lose everything but their lives.

Lance.

 

Freeze paris

Interesting
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=uL-3whzepCs

Cheers.

 

Que pasa?

 

Pasar, pasar, lo que se dice pasar, no pasa nada.
Pero es simpático ver a toda la gente 'congelada'. Y la técnica es interesante.

Salud!

http://www.worldlingo.com/

 

dam foreigners ,,,always make ya go "huuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmppphhhhh"
hehehe
and before he sends "friends" to "visit" me warusy,,,,tell him in that funny typing that im jus playing hehe