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Re: Where's your secession now?  

By: killthecat in FFFT | Recommend this post (1)
Tue, 19 Apr 11 4:51 PM | 52 view(s)
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Why hasn't Obama already sent fire-fighting help to Texas? The need was obvious to anyone still conscious. The historic drought in Texas would also be of concern to a real President.


DALLAS (AP) — A Texas official says a wildfire burning less than 100 miles from the Dallas-Fort Worth area could be twice as big as previous estimates.

Texas Forest Service spokesman Marq Webb says the fire burning Tuesday near Possum Kingdom Lake may have grown to about 120,000 acres. It was previously estimated at 63,000 acres.

The Possum Kingdom fire would be the fifth of at least 100,000 acres around Texas. The state is managing about 1,500 firefighters battling blazes that have consumed more than 1,000 square miles of parched Texas ranchland.

The agency says at least 32 homes have been destroyed in the recreational area about 70 miles west of Fort Worth.

Firefighting conditions are likely to be difficult Tuesday, with high temperatures in the 90s and strong winds.



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Where's your secession now?
By: weco in FFFT
Tue, 19 Apr 11 10:38 AM 		Msg. 28342 of 65535


Wildfires continue to burn land across Texas and with no end in sight, Governor Rick Perry is asking for the Presidents' help.

What's being called the 'Perfect Storm' for fires, has destroyed nearly 250 homes. At least one firefighter has been killed and 18 others have been injured.

With all but two of the states, state's 254 counties affected, the governor asked President Obama, to declare Texas a 'Major Disaster'.

Authorities say that over a million and a half acres have been scorched. Heavy winds and drought-like conditions are fueling most of the fires, making it difficult to put them out.

http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14464796

I guess Gov Perry is glad he didn't push harder for secession after all, or he might be establishing a Texas income tax (the horror!) since the rest of America wouldn't be at the ready to pay Texans' expenses on this one.

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