So last night I was going to get ice cream and saw like 8 fire trucks w their lights on down the street

Stopped and talked to the guy that lives there, and he said the transformer blew and caught his yard on fire. Only realized it when he went to lock his vehicle.

Happened at about 9:45 at night…. We're not on city water out here, everyone has wells. When the power went out they couldn't put it out. Couple hours later and it may have been quite a bit worse


It's dry

Just had to call one in a few minutes ago.
Neighbor hauls used sawdust shavings from the local vet clinics.
It went through a heat and combusted starting a grass fire.
Third time in a month and they still dont have a sprinkler going on the pile.

Idiots.

Oh damn that is terrifying sight.

you'd think that would be some code violation for the county you could get enforced......given the current situation in texas I'd think it would get prompt attention from teh county

we live in Humble and had storm go just by us last night. had tons of lightning which started a couple of fires within 2 miles of the house. Had smoke and ash landing on ours from one

The weather is always against an electric utility no matter what. We finally got rain yesterday but it came with a small tornado/downburst that took down fences and an electric pole along with two spans of wire. Thankfully no fire b/c we are currently in the very high fire danger area.

My neighborhood was lucky a week ago, a dead tree in a heavily wooded area brought down the power lines and broke 2 poles. It took more than 16 hours to fix due to the difficulty in getting to the area. I have no idea how it didn't spark a fire. I'd probably be living in a rental now if it did.

Drove from DFW to Moran and saw about 5-6 burnt out areas. Thankfully the grass is so short and burnt up already that they were able to contain all of them in short order. These last two summers have been hell.

There was a fire about a 100 miles east of us that started last Friday and was over 13,000 acres by the end of the weekend. Last report I saw was over 17,000 now.

If you are not on city water, I would have documents and irreplaceable valuables ready to go in a moments notice.

Transformer grass fire is what torched Maui. Prevailing storm winds just blew in right into the town.

Transformer blew at the Lake Belton V Leander game tonight in Belton with about a minute left in the 2nd quarter. My wife and son were underneath the stands getting drinks when it happened and it scared the **** out of about a thousand people. Said there was almost a crush. Pretty scary. I was in Austin and heard about it afterwards.

Game cancelled which sucks.

You got a mongoose riding shotgun?

That's my dog, Chester. He wanted to see what caused all that commotion last night